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
Lisson unveils new home under New York's High Line
Gallery's inaugural show is dedicated to the 100-year-old artist Carmen Herrera
Top shows to see during Frieze New York
Our pick of exhibitions at museums in the city
Janine Antoni gets wrapped up in her work at Philadelphia’s Fabric Workshop
Project celebrates the interconnectedness of life through dance, installations and sculptures
From the archive | artists turn Montana ranch into vast open-air sculpture and music centre
Tippet Rise Art Center is due to open in the Beartooth Mountains in June
Photographers show that refugee crisis is bigger than any one country
An exhibition at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, backed by the UN, tells the stories of displaced people around the world
From magazine cut-outs to brand-name billboards, gallery show offers a peek into Tom Wesselmann’s estate
An exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash includes his familiar Pop works as well as lesser-known pieces
Save the data: New York Public Library launches online biographical archive for photographers
Started by one man based on a now defunct database, the Photographers’ Identities Catalogue could one day become a community-driven wiki
It’s a jungle out there: interactive installation brings the Amazon to Times Square
Urban explorers just need a smartphone app and headphones to experience the sounds of the rainforest on Broadway