Object lessons: works by female artists, from 17th-century Hyperrealism to an Art Nouveau watercolour
Our pick of the highlights from January's auctions and fairs
NEA, Smithsonian museums and National Gallery of Art to reopen
A temporary budget deal ended the US government shutdown on Friday, allowing state-funded arts organisations to get back to work
Object Lessons: from a pioneering wooden chair to a hypnotic Delvaux painting
Our highlights from January's fairs and auctions
Object Lessons: from Palermo's mummies to a drawing by a man wrongfully convicted of murder
Our pick of highlights from January's auctions
Jair Bolsonaro’s government extinguishes Brazilian ministry of culture
The departments of culture, sports and social development have merged
Louise Bourgeois’s Spider crawls across Brazil
The colossal work, one of the first arachnid sculptures the artist made, has embarked on a multi-city tour
Brazil’s National Museum closes the year on a poignant note
With partnerships with the Smithsonian and Google as well as donations, the institution soldiers on
Art collector and Credit Suisse head José Olympio da Veiga Pereira is the new president of São Paulo biennial foundation
The organisation oversees the city’s international exhibition, as well as the country’s representation at the Venice Biennale and other projects
A Baroque #MeToo heroine, a censored video and an 'unprecedented deal': the year in museum acquisitions
We look back at ten significant gifts and purchases that entered public collections in 2018
In pictures: Curator Philipp Kaiser picks his top works at Art Basel in Miami Beach
Behind the scenes: Diary of an art handler
Having to cope with everything from curious koi to melting Vaseline, an art handler’s working days are certainly never dull
Ella Fontanals-Cisneros plans to take her Latin American art collection worldwide
Works from the 3,000-strong collection have already travelled to Mexico, Ecuador and Brazil and in 2019, Fontanals-Cisneros plans to “cross even more uncharted waters”
Pedro Reyes and Carla Fernández: 'death to planned obsolescence'
The Design Miami Visionary award-winners tell us about their projects at the fair
'Tania Bruguera's bravery always stands out': art world responds to Cuban artist's arrest
Activist is among several artists detained in Havana on Monday ahead of planned protest
Object Lessons: from children's book illustrations to a bronze-cast scooter by Subodh Gupta
Our pick of highlights from December's auctions
Top shows to see in Miami this week
From a tribute to the feminist stalwart Judy Chicago at the ICA to a reunion of the AfriCOBRA artist at MoCA
Robert Morris, the conceptual sculptor and leading Minimalist, has died, aged 87
We once asked the artist for his thoughts on Minimalism; he called our questions “trivial, superficial, puerile, misdirected, irrelevant, egregious, distracted, dull, feeble, breathless, gossip-mongering, smarmy and lizard-like”
$1.3m worth of ivory seized in California—the largest haul since a ban was adopted in the state
The Carlton Gallery of San Diego and a nearby warehouse had hundreds of pieces
Object Lessons: London Old Master week
Tis the season for Old Masters: here are three works to seek out, from a mythological marriage portrait to Annibale Carracci's sketch on an old account book
Rain threatens recovery effort at Brazil’s National Museum
Meanwhile, the museum partners with a Chinese tech firm to digitise its catalogued collection
The highs and lows of New York ‘gigaweek’
Hockney made the headlines, but other artists made waves—or flopped—at November’s auctions
Auction house pulls seven objects from American Indian sale amid protests
Native American official calls planned auction of the items “unconscionable”
Object Lessons: from a Song Dynasty scroll that could smash auction records to a small but foxy 19th-century garment toggle
Our picks from this week's fairs and auctions around the globe
Phillips and Bonhams see strong sales on smaller lots
The auction houses' bottom lines suffered from unsold lots, continuing a trend of top-lot discernment during New York’s fall sales
Object Lessons: From a marble mask by Henry Moore to a powerful Namibian wooden sceptre
Our picks from this week's fairs and auctions around the globe
Larry Poons: Art isn’t business
The octogenarian painter stars in The Price of Everything, a new film about the machinations of the market airing on HBO
Holy grail of folk ceramics made by 19th-century snake handler breaks auction record
The “snake jug” shattered the previous record for Anna Pottery, a niche favourite of Americana collectors
Native American group denounces Met’s exhibition of indigenous objects
The Association on American Indian Affairs says the "first mistake was to call these objects art" and that tribal representatives should have been consulted
The art world reacts to Brazil’s new far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro
The former army captain's apparent leanings toward authoritarianism and his fundamentalist views have arts professionals feeling wary