‘It’s a dream for an artist to be able to do this’: Walton Ford on creating a lion's den at the Morgan Library & Museum
The artist’s show includes a menagerie of recently gifted sketches, large-scale watercolours and selections from the permanent collection
Brazil’s moment in the art-world spotlight extends to Frieze New York
This is the second year running in which the country will have five galleries attending—the highest number as a percentage of total exhibitors
Fifteen exhibitions to see in New York this spring
From a historic Harlem Renaissance show at the Met and MoMA's Joan Jonas retrospective to solo museum debuts for Melissa Cody and Nona Faustine
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung to curate the São Paulo biennial in 2025
The Berlin-based curator has previously held roles at Documenta and the Dak’Art biennial in Senegal
SP-Arte turns 20—as Brazilian artists and curators take the spotlight at Venice
São Paulo fair’s founder says her efforts are “legitimised” by Adriano Pedrosa being the first South American to curate the Venice Biennale this month
Glenn Ligon: 'The idea of coal dust being elevated into the space of art was something that interested me'
As his series of text paintings make their debut in Hong Kong, the US artist discusses his decades-long meditation on the words of James Baldwin
US museums blame falling visitor numbers for staff redundancies
Institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art have let staff go
Top shows to see during Art Basel Hong Kong
Our pick of what's on around the city
How ancient cave art is rewriting Puerto Rican history
Recent study shows that humans inhabited and made art in the archipelago thousands of years earlier than previously thought
Lucas Samaras, tirelessly adventurous New York artist, has died, aged 87
The Greek American artist was always willing to try new forms and materials, working across sculpture, photography, performance, installation and more
Mercedes Dorame: ‘Borders shift and change with perspective’
The artist’s commission for the Getty Center’s rotunda replicates the forms and colours of abalone shells that were once ubiquitous on the Los Angeles coast
13 shows to see in and around Los Angeles during Frieze
From important shows of Korean and Japanese contemporary art, to major surveys of Paul Pfeiffer and Joan Brown, and more
US museums cover Native American displays as revised federal regulations take effect
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has been revised to expedite repatriation, leading many museums to conceal exhibits in the interim
'An exciting new model for repatriation': rotating display of Cycladic treasures, on loan from Greece, debuts at the Met
An innovative agreement between the Metropolitan Museum, American businessman Leonard N. Stern and the Greek government led to the new display of 161 Cycladic antiquities at the New York museum
Brazil plans museum devoted to 2023 insurrection
Authorities also began restoration work on art damaged during the ensuing riots
Valongo Wharf—historic hub of Brazil's slave trade—opens following overdue $400,000 renovation
The Rio de Janeiro site, where one million enslaved Africans disembarked, retains its Unesco World Heritage status
Will Las Vegas finally get an art museum? Collector Elaine Wynn and Lacma back new $150m institution
Council moves forward with plans for 90,000 square-foot Las Vegas Museum of Art in Symphony Park
Mexico’s Maya Train finally leaves the station after years of delays and tripling of costs
The rail network connecting archaeological sites and tourist destinations on the Yucatán peninsula is one of president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s legacy projects
The late self-taught street photographer Vivian Maier will have her first major New York exhibition
The Manhattan branch of photography museum Fotografiska will put around 200 works by the reclusive savant on view in May 2024
Sallisa Rosa: ‘The audience can remember what the earth feels like’
The Brazilian artist’s first solo US project, an Audemars Piguet Contemporary commission, turns the Collins Park Rotunda into a cavern of clay
Nevada lithium mine threatens cultural sites
The US federal government’s manoeuvres to boost domestic lithium extraction are raising fears from tribal communities about archaeological and environmental impacts
On-site hotel nearing completion at Brazil’s Inhotim museum and botanical garden
Soaring visitor numbers and new leadership team at Inhotim Institute trigger reset for major hotel development
Mexico’s $28bn Maya Train puts 25,000 historic sites at risk
Many organisations, including Unesco, fear the project will negatively affect the region’s cultural heritage, natural environment and residents when it opens in December
Organisers of billboard art project allege their show in Texas on prison reform was censored
Companies that manage advertising spaces in Houston reportedly called off the project with little warning or explanation
Artists withdraw work from US National Gallery in protest of ‘government funding of Israel’s military assault’ in Gaza
A collaborative sculpture by Nicholas Galanin and Merritt Johnson was removed from an exhibition at the Washington, DC museum
A new artist-designed ‘chapel’ to grace Kansas City
The artist Summer Wheat will create a space for visitors to “explore their inner world” on the Kansas City Museum campus
The Indigenous artist and activist Glicéria Tupinambá will represent Brazil at 2024 Venice Biennale
The Brazilian pavilion will be renamed the “Hãhãwpuá Pavilion” for Tupinambá’s presentation, which is being co-curated by three Brazilian Indigenous artists
Ida Applebroog, who made wide-ranging work with a feminist edge, has died, aged 93
The American artist was long associated with the feminist art movement but resented the label, preferring to form her own critical iconography
Pandemic-fueled shift from in-person to virtual art activities may be permanent, two US surveys suggest
Two surveys supported by the National Endowment for the Arts show that in-person art activities remain below pre-Covid levels, while many Americans continue to experience culture virtually