‘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
National Gallery of Victoria receives $74m to build Australia's largest contemporary art museum
The Melbourne museum will span around 30,000 sq. m and open in 2028
The Barnes Foundation exhumes its little-known Indigenous art collection
An exhibition tracks Albert C. Barnes’s brief but significant collecting spree of Native objects
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Deana Lawson at MoMA PS1 to Kyle Staver at Half Gallery
MoMA and the Neue Galerie jointly acquire a Käthe Kollwitz self-portrait
The Museum of Modern Art plans to hold a major exhibition of the German artist’s work in the near future
Acquisitions round-up: Zao Wou-ki's stepdaughter gifts a dozen works by the Modern master to M+
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Kathy Ruttenberg at Lyles & King to the treasures of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library
Review: Does the Whitney Biennial really reflect the world today?
Plus, the exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories opens in Washington and Raphael's late self-portrait at London's National Gallery
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Walid Raad at Paula Cooper Gallery to Daniel Lie at the New Museum
Indigenous artists highlight shared histories of abstraction and survival in the Whitney Biennial
The 2022 edition of the exhibition includes the work of four Indigenous artists from the US and Canada
Brazil's SP-Arte fair to focus on design and digital art sectors
The 18th edition of the Brazilian art fair features around 30 design galleries, a recently introduced sector, and a selling exhibition of digital art
'Native people are alive, not specimens or relics of the past': overdue retrospective honours Jean LaMarr’s groundbreaking work
The career-spanning exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art explores how the artist subverted categorisation in an era where Native art was still considered folkloric
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Robert Irwin at Pace to Barkley L. Hendricks at Jack Shainman
Massachusetts museum accused of hoarding Indigenous artefacts and human remains for decades
The Barre Museum is said to hold the largest collection of Lakota objects and human remains from the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre
After $110m Picasso sale, casino company MGM acquires on-trend contemporary works to diversify collection
The acquisition includes pieces by Sanford Biggers, Rashid Johnson, Ghada Amer, Derrick Adams and others
SJ Norman wins Australia's Blake Prize for diptych of scarification ritual
The prize recognises a live performance in which the artist was slashed 147 times, addressing the disproportionate incarceration and custody deaths of First Nations people
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Meg Webster at the Judd Foundation to Michelle Stuart at Galerie Lelong & Co.