Acquisitions round-up: the first painting by Swiss avant-garde artist Ferdinand Hodler to head to London's National Gallery
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Thinking inside the box: Walter De Maria’s ‘meaningless work’ goes on show in Houston
The Menil Collection's exhibition will feature rarely shown and previously unseen works from its collection
Anthropologist opposed to Indigenous repatriation sues university for alleged threats to her free speech
Professor Elizabeth Weiss has filed a lawsuit against San José State University claiming she was disciplined for expressing her view that repatriation favours religion over science
Smithsonian selects preferred sites for long-awaited Latino and women’s museums
The site selections must be approved or rejected by the US Congress by the end of the year
Former president Bill Clinton previews $155m expansion of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
The renovation spearheaded by Studio Gang, details of which were unveiled during a luncheon in New York, will open in the spring of 2023
Getty oil fortune heiress helped fund climate activists who have targeted artworks and museums
The granddaughter of the oil tycoon J. Paul Getty has donated millions to support activist groups like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil
Storm King Art Center appoints associate curator ahead of $45m capital project
Eric Booker was previously an assistant curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem and has held roles at the Guggenheim and the Calder Foundation
For a renowned Aboriginal artist, a posthumous star turn in Paris at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, who died in 2015 and whose work has been embroiled in the scandal surrounding the dealer who “discovered” it, has her first major museum show outside Australia
Brooklyn Museum completes ten-year renovation of Asian and Islamic art galleries
The approximately $9m project included modernising 20,000 sq. ft of galleries and bringing key objects out of storage for public display for the first time
Cauleen Smith and Vanessa German receive $250,000 Heinz Prize
The unrestricted prize recognises important contributions to the artistic, environmental and economic sectors
American artist Senga Nengudi wins $100,000 Nasher Prize for sculpture
The artist will have a career-spanning exhibition at Dia Beacon next year that will be on view long-term
Getty Foundation launches $3.1m programme to preserve Black architects' work
The two-year grant Preserving Black Modernism extends the foundation's larger initiative to protect Modernist architecture
Hew Locke covers Met Museum with golden trophies inspired by colonial looting
The suite of sculptures is inspired by works in the museum’s collection with convoluted histories
Smithsonian reveals shortlisted designs for $130m Bezos Learning Center at National Air and Space Museum
The institution is welcoming public feedback on proposals from five anonymous architecture firms bidding for the project on the National Mall
Indigenous artists take the spotlight at The Armory Show
Buffalo-based K Art Gallery, owned and operated by a member of the Seneca Nation, is showing an intergenerational group of Indigenous artists at the fair
A first glimpse of Philadelphia's future Alexander Calder sanctuary
The $70m centre will feature indoor and outdoor spaces with rotating exhibitions of Calder’s work
New York's Spring Break Art Show returns with a bevy of bawdy and bodily projects
The 11th edition of the curator-led fair returns to Armory Week and the former Ralph Lauren offices on Madison Avenue with around 110 exhibitors working under the Burroughsian title "Naked Lunch"
The must-see exhibitions celebrating Brazilian art on the country's bicentennial
Shows on view in museums and galleries across New York, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Paris and London, from the Brazilian art biennial at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo to Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca at the New Museum
Marvin Gaye-inspired exhibition to inaugurate Rubell Museum in Washington, DC
The exhibition will feature nearly 200 works from Don and Mera Rubell's collection
After a devastating fire in 2018, the National Museum of Brazil unveils the first stage of its restoration project
As the first stage of the museum’s restoration project is unveiled, coinciding with the Brazilian bicentennial of independence, its director calls for more government investment
Greek artefacts from American billionaire's collection will be returned pending exchange agreement
The artefacts could be exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art before traveling to Athens
US customs agents seize Ancient Egyptian lid for mummy liver
The artefact, seized in Memphis, Tennessee, was en route to a collector who is believed to have falsified statements regarding its value
Metropolitan Museum to exhibit masterpieces from Puerto Rican museum struck by earthquake
The pieces include paintings by Frederic Leighton, John Everett Millais and Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Acquisitions round-up: Tate gets Indigenous Australian art and Ohio's Toledo Museum swaps Impressionist paintings for a Kerry James Marshall
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Republicans in Utah sue Biden administration over protection of national monuments
The state has issued a lawsuit against Biden’s overturning of a Trump-era decision to open protected lands in the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments to resource extraction
Orlando Museum of Art leaders resign amid scandal over allegedly fake Basquiats
The museum's board chair and its recently appointed interim director have both resigned as the fallout from an FBI raid in June continues
Interview | Sculptor Patrick Dougherty on his illusionary stickwork
The artist has unveiled an otherworldly work for the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana that envelops a frontier-era school with swells of willow saplings
Perrotin gambles on Las Vegas art market with new store at the Bellagio
The global blue-chip dealer Emmanuel Perrotin says “art is everyone”
Once the US’s largest slave port, Charleston will open African American museum next year
Opening on 21 January 2023, the new International African American Museum will include ways for Black Americans to research their ancestry
Ancient ‘Hellgate’ pictographs irreparably vandalised in Montana
The pictographs are nominated for listing in the US National Register of Historic Places