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
Chimeric creature descends on the Whitney Museum in new augmented reality commission
Nancy Baker Cahill’s augmented-reality work explores the climate crisis and interdependence between humans and nature
The Guerrilla Girls take on an Arkansas music festival
The activist art collective is bringing an installation of its work and a series of workshops to the Format festival in Bentonville
A biennial in Oregon explores the role of art in political and social critique
Converge 45 returns to Portland with more than 50 projects at 15 venues across the city
Bienal de São Paulo restricts access to Ibrahim Mahama installation after child falls and breaks his arm while climbing on it
The installation features a reclaimed Ghanaian railroad track that visitors were previously encouraged to interact with
The 2023 Bienal de São Paulo lodges kinetic critiques of racism and environmental degradation
Titled “Choreographies of the Impossible”, the 35th edition of the world’s second-oldest biennial doesn’t dance around charged topics, it dances about them
American museum educators are trying a more playful approach
Two New York institutions are overhauling their education facilities, while others test a digital-first style of art pedagogy
Bienal de São Paulo opens as Brazilian cultural scene gets Lula rejuvenation
Arts funding in Brazil is being restored under President Lula, with new projects including a transitory “museum” exploring the history of Brazil’s African diaspora
Female Land artists come out of the shadows at Dallas's Nasher Sculpture Center
The exhibition will shed new light on lesser-known, often ephemeral, works by women
Tibetan Buddhist shrine with more than 200 artefacts donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art
The shrine comes from Alice S. Kandell, who amassed one of the most significant private collections of Tibetan Buddhist art in North America
Groups in Guatemala demand return of Maya throne sent to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
Guatemalan law prohibits the export of such artefacts for exhibition, local culture organisations say
Charleston reckons with its role in the international slave trade through its museums
The historic Charleston Museum and the forthcoming International African American Museum will explore the city's painful past
Genesis of Phil Collins’s collection of Alamo artefacts questioned ahead of museum opening
A new public exhibition hall is mired in controversy over the provenance of the musician’s collection of relics related to the Alamo in Texas
Acquisitions round-up: two London museums jointly purchase a masterpiece of the Aesthetic movement
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Arts figures draw a line under Bolsonaro as Lula is sworn in as Brazil's new president
Leftist leader has appointed a culture minister but faces challenges from fundamentalism to funding
Museums and heritage in 2022: industrial unrest, climate protests and damage to historic artefacts in Ukraine
New and refurbished museums open in Antwerp, Los Angeles and Sydney as Italian archaeologists make the "discovery of a generation" in a hilltop town in Tuscany
Long-awaited International African American Museum delays January opening
The museum says humidity and temperature control issues must be addressed before it can open to the public
Acquisitions round up: Wu Tsang's immersive installation from Venice Biennale heads to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Photographer and historian Deborah Willis receives $200,000 prize from Crystal Bridges Museum
Willis is a photographer, author and curator whose work illuminates cultural histories of Blackness