As the Brazilian president calls for businesses to re-open despite a growing number of Covid-19 cases, some refuse to follow "politically-influenced" advice

As museums donate protective supplies to medical centres during coronavirus crisis, grassroots efforts to make masks struggle to meet medical standards

As many self-employed photographers face work losses due to Covid-19, others document the "seriousness of what is happening on a personal and community level"

Eric Fischl is supplying a limited edition print to benefit the closed New York Academy of Art while other sales are being donated to emergency funds and community organisations

Organisations are offering medical emergency grants while other groups crowdsource data quantifying the impact of the health crisis on the cultural labour market

Fears about the spread of Covid-19 are growing just weeks after the country's Carnaval festivities ended

Pace, Hauser & Wirth and some others have confirmed that they will temporarily shut down

A series of spectral trees will populate Madison Square Park this summer in the artist's latest project addressing climate change

Exhibition at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand will kick off a year of shows celebrating the influence of dance on artists

From the Met Breuer’s final exhibition, devoted to Gerhard Richter, to Jonathan Berger’s love letters at Participant Inc

The ninth edition of the curator-centred fair presents more than 120 projects considering the theme of “in excess”

The artist will face a summary trial in ten days while activists say the arrest amounts to "state terrorism"

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from a pot by an African-American slave to the earliest depiction of Highland dress

Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions and fairs

While some sculptures go into hibernation, curators let winter work its magic on others

From Cauleen Smith’s feminist films at the Whitney to Rodney McMillian’s conceptual landscapes at Petzel Gallery

More than 20 galleries will take part in the flagship Swiss fair for the first time

The show features more than 200 works by women artists such as Samia Halaby and Laila Shawa

Arkansas private museum’s cross-disciplinary new venue shines a spotlight on contemporary American art, from performance to cooking

The curators and the National Coalition Against Censorship are challenging the removal of the artist's work

The automotive and green-power company is also sponsoring an exhibition that explores the intersection of art and technology

The non-profit space, likened to the Rothko Chapel in Houston, will offer visitors a place to introspectively connect with Calder's work

The Frist Art Museum has secured more than 70 works from the Tate’s Turner Bequest

From the first US retrospective devoted to the pioneering female photographer Madame d’Ora to an immersive Joan Miró experience at Acquavella Galleries

The installation, which opened on 20 December, is closing 11 weeks early

The exhibition brings together museum-quality pieces, most consigned by US collectors

The biennial launches this month with “kunsthalle-sized” exhibitions ahead of the main show in September

Whitney Museum exhibition will explore the enduring influence of artists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros on US counterparts including Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston

From Helen Molesworth’s presentation of Noah Davis at David Zwirner to the first installment of Laia Abril’s documentary project on misogyny

The year-long programme Monuments Now at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens aims to evaluate ideas around public art