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
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
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
Historic Baltimore museum reopens after $5.5m renovation
The Peale Museum, considered the first “purpose-built” museum in North America, reopens with a contemporary and local focus
An historic appointment: Lynette L. Allston is the first Indigenous person to serve as board president of a major US museum
Allston had previously advised the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in devising its land acknowledgement agreement
The Metropolitan Museum returns two looted artefacts to Nepal
The two works, given to the museum in the 1990s, were looted from temples in Kathmandu according to recent internal provenance research
National Museum of Scotland urged to return First Nations totem pole stolen by Canadian anthropologist
The pole was stolen in 1929 and, if returned, would be only the second totem pole to be repatriated to a First Nation by a European institution
US museums and Indigenous tribes receive $2m grant to boost repatriation efforts
The National Park Service has awarded grants totaling $2.1m to 20 museums and nine tribes
Six must-see exhibitions on view in the Hamptons
As the Art Market Hamptons fair returns to Water Mill, these are the must-see shows on the east end of Long Island
Hélio Oiticica’s unrealised Tropicália environment erected in New York
The Brazilian artist developed the installation and several other iterations of architectural environments on a Guggenheim grant in the 1970s but never secured funding to build the work
Police find haul of stolen paintings, including masterworks by Tarsila do Amaral, under a bed in Rio de Janeiro
The works, including pieces by Do Amaral, Di Cavalcanti and others, were seized from the home of a man involved a bizarre scheme to swindle the widow of a famed dealer
Metropolitan Museum director Max Hollein to take on dual role of director and chief executive
Hollein, who will add the role to his title after Daniel H. Weiss resigns next year, was the “clear choice”, according to the Met’s board of trustees
From the archive | a first glimpse of Storm King Art Center’s $45m redesign
The celebrated upstate New York sculpture park will begin an overhaul of its grounds to enhance visitor experience and biodiversity
Former dealer Caitlin Berry named inaugural director of the Rubell Museum's Washington, DC outpost
Berry was previously the director of the Cody Gallery at Marymount University and the director of Hemphill Fine Arts
From Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s doomed Colorado projects to Precious Okoyomon’s utopian garden, Aspen Art Week's must-see exhibitions
The event coincides with the second edition of the Intersect Aspen art fair and the Aspen Art Museum’s annual ArtCrush benefit auction
Pope Francis addresses forced assimilation in Canadian tour amid calls for repatriation of Indigenous artefacts from Vatican Museums
Francis delivered a speech in Maskwacis as part of a week-long visit to apologise for the role of the Catholic church in the cultural genocide of Indigenous communities
Some of the must-see exhibitions during Upstate Art Weekend in New York
The third annual iteration of the Hudson Valley arts festival features its biggest roster yet, with nearly 150 events and exhibitions
The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquires rejected Howard Hodgkin collection of Indian art
The late British artist envisioned that his collection would be acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, which rejected the offer due to provenance concerns
Brazilian art collector Gilberto Chateaubriand has died, aged 97
Chateaubriand, son of the MASP founder Assis Chateaubriand, held one of the most important collections of Brazilian Modern and contemporary art