From Peter Halley’s day-glo funhouse to Rachel Harrison’s retrospective at the Whitney

From a travelling Stonewall survey to Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña's first major museum retrospective

From Chloë Bass’s show at The Studio Museum in Harlem to Yasiin Bey’s multimedia exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum

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PY1's laser and acrobatics filled show promised to be a trip "through space and time" but was a box office disappointment during its premiere in Montreal this summer

From Rachel Feinstein’s first survey at The Jewish Museum to a superlative collection of drawings and prints at the Met

A new article implements harsher fines and imprisonment for abusing archaeological sites and museums and smuggling antiquities out of the country

Two directors left the museum last week, and 126 employees have received a dismissal notice

Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions around the world

From Wayne Thiebaud’s little-known paintings of the Southwest to Shirin Neshat’s exhibition of Iranian women artists

Two artists began a collaborative project after one was denied a visa to enter the US under Donald Trump's travel ban

Museum will juxtapose archaeological finds with recent pieces in an “Art of One World” gallery

From Alexandre Singh's dark thriller at Metro Pictures to entrancing etchings at the Met, the best shows to see this Halloween weekend

A Met exhibition explores fraught acquisitions in museum collections with the aim of kickstarting new conversations

From Betye Saar’s mysticism at MoMA to the first retrospective dedicated to conceptual photographer Duane Michals at the Morgan Library and Museum

From atmospheric photographs by Roy DeCarava to Lily van der Stokker's riffs on medicine and doctors

The artist, who will be awarded the Smithsonian's African Art Award later this month, has also been commissioned by the Ethiopian prime minister to create a public garden in the royal palace

From Lempicka’s first US show in nearly six decades to Jacolby Satterwhite’s intimate and immersive environment

The museum plans to acquire many of the works in its survey devoted to Indigenous artists

Following her triumph in the Netflix show Blown Away, the artist has a two-week residency at The Corning Museum of Glass

From the Neue Galerie’s Kirchner retrospective to John Singer Sargent’s rarely seen charcoal portraits at the Morgan Library and Museum

The French artist, who made his name with large-scale public installations, is opening his biggest US exhibition to date

The move marks the institution's return to an artist-led board

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From the Met Breuer’s Vija Celmins retrospective to Kehinde Wiley’s first public sculpture

Archaeologists have uncovered more than one million objects on the site

The artist is the first to have a major commission in the historic burial vault

The photographer, first known for his intimate portraits of artists, was later renowned for his monumental images of art in remote places

From the LMCC’s Art Center inaugural season to William Powhida’s watercolour memes

The museum celebrated the project, due to be completed in 2020, with a NYPD fireboat performance and specially commissioned jazz composition