Brazilian kinetic and optical art pioneer Abraham Palatnik surveyed in visually remarkable book
The monographic publication Enchantment/Experimentation coincided with an extensive exhibition organised by Galeria Nara Roesler in New York this year
The newly-restored Morgan Library and Museum opens a public garden
The $13m project entailed a comprehensive exterior restoration and landscape redesign
Sinuous sculptures by Mexican artist Geles Cabrera resurface in Americas Society exhibition
The sculptor and museum founder has had a prolific career spanning more than six decades but remains little-known outside of Mexico
Jewel box museum of Old Master artworks reopens in San Diego
The Timken Museum of Art, the only museum with a Rembrandt on public display in San Diego, underwent a major two-year renovation
The best art destinations for day trips near New York City this summer
Our picks of the must-see seasonal outdoor and indoor exhibitions, from Wangechi Mutu and Brandon Ndife at the Storm King Art Center to Frank Stella at The Ranch
Looted Maya frieze once offered to the Metropolitan Museum will be fully restored
The elaborate temple relief, now held by the Museo Nacional de Antropología, was extracted from the Maya jungle in the 1960s and offered to the Met for $400,000
Artefacts long held by the Smithsonian will go on view at new Mi’ kmaw cultural centre in Nova Scotia
The $50m centre is scheduled to open in 2025 and showcase works on long-term loan from the National Museum of the American Indian
Inhotim founder Bernardo Paz, acquitted of money laundering, donates more than 300 works from his collection to the institute
Paz had been accused of transferring nearly $100m made as donations to the sprawling art centre to his mining and steel companies
Leaked report reveals Harvard holds remains of nearly 7,000 Indigenous and 20 enslaved people
The unfinalised report is being developed by a steering committee formed last year to address repatriation concerns at the Ivy League university
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Esmaa Mohamoud at Arsenal Contemporary to the Flag Art Foundation’s group show curated by ex-football player and arts patron Keith Rivers
Williams College Museum of Art selects Brooklyn-based architects SO-IL for new building
The museum is currently housed in the university's former library building
Archaeologists unearth sprawling Maya metropolis in the Yucatán
The discovery comes on the heels of the contentious Maya Train development in the area, one section of which was temporarily suspended this week
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Karim B. Hamid at Alchemy Gallery to Sky Hopinka at Broadway
The Met creates digital project tied to $70m upgrade of African, ancient American and Oceanic art galleries
The venture, made in collaboration with the World Monuments Fund and several African art and culture scholars, will examine historical sites in sub-Saharan Africa
Colombian gallery repeats as Frieze stand prize winner
The Bogotá- and New York-based gallery Instituto de Visión walked away with the award for the second consecutive year
From Latinx artists to new takes on Surrealism, curator Marcela Guerrero’s favourite works at Frieze New York
Eight must-see works of art from the Whitney Museum of American Art's associate curator
‘The violence of image-making is embedded in the work’: Lydia Ourahmane explores ancient cave paintings in her new film
The Algerian-British artist’s new film documents remote cave paintings of Tassili n’Ajjer
The artist encouraging New Yorkers to empathise with their trash
Artist Sto Len is using his residency with the New York City sanitation department to call attention to citizens' attitudes about trash
Brazilian museum accused of censoring photographs of Marxist land reform movement
The museum claims the works' removal was due to a scheduling issue, but the curators involved in the selection described the images' omission as "disrespectful and unjust”
$19m renovation of American Museum of Natural History's Indigenous collection hall unveiled
American Museum of Natural History renovates its Pacific Northwest cultures gallery after 112 years
Six must-see shows during Frieze New York
From Genesis P-Orridge at Pioneer Works to Louise Bourgeois at the Met, our pick of the best exhibitions in the city this week
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Ouattara Watts at Karma to Lydia Ourahmane at the SculptureCenter
Abstract Expressionists' studio and Osage pictograph cave included on list of endangered US cultural sites
The latest National Trust for Historic Preservation list of endangered sites includes a cave of ancient pictographs in Missouri and the Hamptons home of painters James Brooks and Charlotte Park
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Carlito Carvalhosa at Galeria Nara Roesler to Haley Josephs at Jack Barrett
First Lady Jill Biden opens new Met Costume Institute exhibition with message of solidarity with Ukraine
Dr. Biden joined Anna Wintour and several of the film directors who curated the period rooms of the Metropolitan Museum’s American wing
Diego Rivera mural in San Francisco to be conserved, not deaccessioned
The San Francisco Art Institute has received $200,000 from the Mellon Foundation to conserve the 1931 fresco
Mexico’s Maya Train carries catastrophic archaeological and environmental risks, activists warn
The Mexican government is accused of concealing archaelogical findings along 1,500km route of president’s Yucatán mega-project
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Lukas Quietzsch at Ramiken to Matisse at the Museum of Modern Art
Divisive airplane installation from Burning Man lands in Las Vegas
The work was criticised and its creators accused of having “abandoned” it on the Black Rock Desert after the 2018 event
FBI repatriates smuggled artefacts, artworks and other objects to Peru
The returned objects include artefacts from the collection of amateur archaeologist Donald Miller, the subject of a high-profile raid in 2014