Taryn Simon looks at how we all mourn at the Park Avenue Armory
US Immigration is an unwitting curator in the multidisciplinary artist’s project on the global practice of grieving
Palmyra’s Triumphal Arch rises again in New York
On the heels of bomb scares in the city, a cultural casualty of Isis is rebuilt in City Hall Park
Socrates Sculpture Park releases design for first permanent building
The Cubes, designed by New York and Naples firm LOT-EK, will allow for year-round indoor programming
Three to see: London
Gawp and howl at Wifredo Lam’s Vodou inspired-works before being sectioned at the Wellcome Collection’s Bedlam show <br>
Obama to present awards to abstract painter Jack Whitten and choreographer Ralph Lemon
The National Medal of Arts ceremony at the White House will be live streamed next week
Swiss Institute finds new home on St Mark's Place
The New York arts space has also announced a batch of high-profile Helvetic trustees
Whitney Museum opens first Carmen Herrera exhibition in nearly 20 years
The show looks at the artist's development from 1948 to 1978
Nobuyoshi Araki nude photos censored in Mexico City
After a local bar was forced to remove images of nude women from its walls, the gallery Kurimanzutto plans to restage the show
Detroit invests $3.7m in African-American art
The DIA’s director wants collection to better reflect the city’s population
Get inspired like Ansel by America’s national parks
Museums and galleries around the US stage shows celebrating 100 years of the National Park Service
Earthquake in Myanmar damages at least 100 Buddhist pagodas
Tremors from the earthquake were felt in Thailand, India and Bangladesh
Scanner used to study the colour of stars reveals hidden images in Mexican manuscript
The tool has allowed researchers at the Bodleian Libraries to see pre-colonial painted pictures underneath the gesso of Codex Selden
Shirin Neshat dreams big for first solo show in Africa
The Iranian-born artist is premiering two new videos at Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg this week
Jeppe Hein and Sam Durant create reflective works for historic sites in Massachusetts
The two-year project Art and the Landscape brings socially conscious contemporary art to colonial locations
Public art cancelled in Rio due to cultural budget cuts
An installation by the Italian artist Giancarlo Neri is the most recent project to lose funding during Brazil's economic crisis
What summer slowdown? Seattle Art Fair expands
The event draws blue-chip galleries from across the US to the Pacific Northwest
Bass museum to fill expanded space with shows by Ugo Rondinone, Mika Rottenberg and Pascale Marthine Tayou
The architects were tasked with the difficult job of increasing exhibition space without adding to the building
Artist Rashid Johnson joins Guggenheim’s board of trustees
The appointment marks the first time a practicing artist has been on the board since the founding director Hilla von Rebay
Like Ike? Toledo Museum of Art decodes the fine art of political persuasion
Over 50 American political ads on view, from the first television spot in 1952 to those used in the 2012 presidential election
Three to see: New York
Stroll the city streets with Diane Arbus before excavating the riches of the Hellenistic world at the Met<br>
Three to see: New York
From Bruce Conner’s haunting assemblage and László Moholy-Nagy’s gesamtkunstwerk to blackness in abstraction<br> <br>
Ptolemaic galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art get a facelift
Mummies, statuaries of royalty, and a 72-foot long Egyptian Book of the Dead are among the treasures on show
Three to see: New York
Get evicted with Martha Rosler before your around-the-world trip with Sigmar Polke<br> <br>
Marianne Boesky flies the flag with posthumous Thornton Dial show
The New York gallery exhibition focuses on the self-taught artist’s later, more patriotic years
Odd couple: Knockdown Center pairs Anna Mikhailovskaia with John Schacht
Former door factory turned art space in Queens shows work by the contemporary Ukrainian artist alongside the posthumous debut of the self-taught artist
Battle-scarred dinosaur skeleton to be auctioned in Germany
A nearly complete stegosaurus goes under the hammer at Auctionata’s fossils and minerals sale
Put a ring on it: Mariko Mori to hang symbol of unity above Brazilian waterfall ahead of Olympic Games
The Japanese artist plans to realise the second of her six global ecological projects in Brazil
The rent is too damn high: artists tackle New York’s gentrification problem
William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton team up again for a month-long programme of talks and performances that address the city’s housing issues