Carmen Herrera commissioned to create a colossal mural as part of $35m Blanton Museum redesign
The 105-year-old artist says she has long admired the museum's focus on Latin American art
Desert X postpones opening amid Covid-19 surge in California
The outdoor festival, due to take over Coachella Valley in February, will now wait until lockdown restrictions are lifted
Death row inmate designs garden installation by instructing university students through letters
Timothy Young, currently incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison, is a key contributor to the University-led art project, Barring Freedom, that aims to put the US criminal justice system in the dock
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Eugene Von Bruenchenhein’s rapturous paintings to Brassaï’s Parisian underground
Storm King to install Sarah Sze sculpture in 2021—its first new permanent work in more than a decade
The outdoor sculpture park also plans to host an indoor show of her work, with social distancing rules in mind, and will unveil a new sculpture by Rashid Johnson that reflects on surviving a crisis
Mass MoCA will expand artist-in-residency programme as artists continue to struggle amid the Covid-19 pandemic
The museum has received a $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and plans to collect public and private donations for the initiative
Apache artist Bob Haozous explains why he made a shrine to racism
The son of the modernist sculptor Allan Houser describes the impetus behind his piercing monument in Santa Fe
Destructive, sensationalised and maybe not even art: the short and vague legacy of the Utah monolith
After the dismantling of the mysterious monolith that appeared in Utah, environmentalists and art experts alike say the object may have done more harm than good
The must-see outdoor shows and artworks in Miami this week
From Marco Brambilla's Duchamp-inspired projection for Maison Margiela to an interactive work by Olaf Breuning
Masp announces abridged 2021 programming as museums seek solutions to budget shortfalls
After drastic financial losses due to Covid-19, the Brazilian museum says it will hold a smaller number of shows for longer periods of time and boost its digital offerings
The Utah metallic monolith has now disappeared as mysteriously as it arrived
Found last week and resembling a John McCracken minimalist sculpture, the object went missing over the weekend, prompting even more conspiracy theories
Three online shows to see this weekend
From a sweeping survey of Kandinsky to a provocative show on the present day experience of Native American communities
Where to learn about and support Indigenous art and culture on Native American Heritage Month
From the Smithsonian's award-winning Americans exhibition to virtual Indigenous art markets
Alien visitors or avant-garde installation? Mysterious monolith discovered in the Utah desert
The large object spotted by biologists resembles the work of sculptor John McCracken, or a prop from Kubrick's sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey
A seven-mile underwater sculpture park is slated to open in Miami Beach next December
The Reef Line, designed by the architect Shohei Shigematsu/OMA, will include new commissions by Leandro Erlich, Ernesto Neto and Agustina Woodgate
Miami non-profit launches virtual sales platform with a generous donation from the Martin Margulies Foundation
The Bakehouse Art Complex hopes to raise $100,000 in its inaugural sale to help artists amid the Covid-19 pandemic
Performa biennial hosts virtual telethon, evoking the work of George Orwell, Nam June Paik—and, of course, Jerry Lewis
The event has been produced in partnership with Pace gallery and will feature new and archival material
Garrett Bradley's America film installation goes on show at MoMA, exploring racism in black and white
The artist intersperses her work with footage from an unreleased 1914 film, believed to be the oldest surviving feature-length film with an all-Black cast
A breath of fresh air: The Clark opens its first outdoor exhibition
Known for its esteemed collection of European and American paintings and art historical research library, the institution's 140-acre meadow now features contemporary sculptures set against the bucolic landscape of the Berkshire Highlands in Massachusetts
As Trump baselessly cries voter fraud, one artist surveys the rise of conspiracy theories in US politics
Cassandra Zampini's short film Media Warfare compresses four years of fake news into a harrowing 25-minute survey of America's shattered psyche
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From a portal to the Utah monolith at David Zwirner to Vivian Springford’s meditative paintings at Almine Rech
Minneapolis art museum criticised for keeping ancient Indigenous objects
University of Minnesota graduate students have joined Native nations in a long repatriation fight for Mimbres funerary objects controversially held by the Weisman Art Museum
The fraught history of voting transparency in the US, explored
A show at the Corning Museum reveals how corruption and intimidation have historically suppressed the votes of non-white, non-male demographics as US presidential election results remain in flux
A print series of Jacob Lawrence’s earliest narrative cycle has been acquired by the Colby College Museum of Art
The screenprints are an abridged version of the artist’s 41-panel tempera series devoted to the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture
From art to doing 'their part': US museums provide a vital community service by acting as polling sites
Dozens of institutions across the nation have stepped up to "help increase public participation in the American system of self-government" on election day
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Abigail DeVille's freedom torch at Madison Square Park to new marble sculptures by Sanford Biggers at Marianne Boesky
New York artist launches temp agency to employ creatives for a day
As US unemployment rates remain high, the project offers out-of-work artists $200 to "do whatever they need to do" while critiquing the expectations of capitalism
Inaugural Asia Society Triennial to finally open with new programming following the pandemic and BLM protests
New triennial in New York aims to highlight the contribution of the fastest-growing demographic in the US, with exhibitions, events and a little inspiration from Yoko Ono
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From UOVO Prize winner John Edmonds at the Brooklyn Museum to Michelangelo Pistoletto at Lévy Gorvy
Oklahoma museum receives vast archive related to 'Black Wall Street' and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
The Gilcrease Museum has also received a $300,000 grant to conserve and digitise the ephemera collection "so that these atrocities would not be forgotten"