Historic East Hampton museum Guild Hall begins $25m renovation
Founded in 1931, Guild Hall holds a collection of more than 2,000 artworks by Jackson Pollock, Thomas Moran and others
São Paulo Bienal foregoes a chief curator in favour of a 'horizontal curatorial model' for 35th edition
The exhibition will be jointly curated by the artist Grada Kilomba, the art historian Manuel Borja-Villel and the curators and critics Diane Lima and Hélio Menezes
Painting of one of the first transgender women to receive sex reassignment surgery achieves auction record for Danish painter
Gerda Wegener’s 1924 painting of her partner Lili Elbe shows the subject as a languid odalisque
Antiquities dealers appeal restrictive New York ban on ivory
The appeal primarily challenges restrictions around the display of commercial ivory objects in the state
Amazonian cave paintings, pre-Columbian ruins and other world heritage sites identified as critically threatened
The World Monuments Fund has published its biannual report of world heritage sites facing risk due to climate change, political turmoil and other factors
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Rashaad Newsome at the Park Avenue Armory to Hans Holbein at the Morgan Library and Museum
SFMoMA receives gift of 350 works and $10m bequest from late American trustees
The donation includes works by Marcel Duchamp, Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei and others from the collection of the late philanthropists Norah and Norman Stone
Camille Norment engulfs Dia warehouse with a ‘vibrational catharsis’
Norment, who previously represented the Nordic Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennial, has devised a minimal sonic experience for the Dia Art Foundation’s second exhibition in its revamped Chelsea space
Archeologists in Mexico decipher ancient frieze
The frieze, discovered in Oaxaca in 2018, contains glyphs symbolising themes related to superstition and social hierarchies in the Zapotec and Mixtec cultures
Yinka Shonibare unveils project focused on the Great Migration
The third iteration of the artist’s 'Libraries' series will be permanently installed at the Rollins Museum of Art in Florida
US revises law governing repatriation of Indigenous remains and burial objects
The effort, conducted in consultation with Native American tribes and nations, would enable greater enforcement of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Pioneering video artist Ulysses Jenkins on creating new images of Black life
A retrospective at the Hammer Museum chronicles the artist’s pivotal role in the history of video art
Project chronicling Indigenous slavery receives $1.5m grant
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is funding the three-year initiative to compile historical records and future projects related to the enslavement of Indigenous people in the US
Our pick of the best shows to see during Frieze Los Angeles
From Pipilotti Rist's psychedelic survey to Jaishri Abichandani's 'Flower-Headed Children'
Inaugural Hawaii Triennial considers social activism, climate change and the Westernisation of Asia-Pacific
The exhibition, which began as a biennial, has been curated by Melissa Chiu, Miwako Tezuka and Drew Kahu‘āina Broderick
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Jennie C. Jones at the Guggenheim to Vincent Smith at Alexandre Gallery
Native American activists call for return of artefacts from Scotland
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow acquired moccasins, a necklace and a child’s bonnet after the Wounded Knee Massacre
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to expand its Islamic art galleries
The museum’s Islamic art collection spans more than 1,400 pieces as well as important long-term loans
Painter Oscar Yi Hou receives third annual UOVO prize
The $25,000 prize includes a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum and a public commission for the exterior of the UOVO warehouse in Bushwick
‘Communities are affected when someone is imprisoned’: Arizona exhibition explores the social impact of mass incarceration
The show, at the Arizona State University Art Museum, comes as museums nationwide grapple with the fine line between ‘fetishising’ prisoners and broadening dialogue around incarceration
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From 20th century Italian masterworks at the Center for Italian Modern Art to Ashley Bickerton’s oceanic sculptures at Lehmann Maupin
UC Berkeley returns Wiyot human remains and burial objects
The university still holds one of the largest collections of Indigenous human remains and sacred objects in the US
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the jewels of the American Folk Art Museum’s collection to Alec Soth’s journey across the US
The Lenape diaspora, once on the brink of erasure, championed in New York exhibition
The show, the first-ever Lenape-curated exhibition profiling the tribes that inhabited the northeastern US coast, critiques the lack of scholarship and institutional focus on the Lenape people
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Abraham Palatnik’s first posthumous show at Nara Roesler to ayahuasca-inspired ceramics at Salon 94
Indigenous man allegedly fired for refusing to discard bones and artefacts unearthed at Texas construction site
The San Antonio-based chef and site manager was dismissed after being instructed to destroy the discoveries to avoid delaying the renovation of a restaurant
Historic Peruvian church to be restored after earthquake
The Church of La Jalca Grande, one of the first churches built in Peru after the Spanish conquest, was constructed using stones from pre-Hispanic monuments
Crypto group shamed for spending $3m on ‘Dune’ book, mistakenly believing it had acquired copyright to produce NFTs
The group Spice DAO planned to sell NFTs based on the contents of the book, which details Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ambitious but failed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From an artist couple’s colourful daring at the Museum of Arts and Design to the last chance to see Alexander Calder at the Museum of Modern Art
An artist residency supporting Bipoc artists flourishes in the Hamptons
Ma’s House, led by the Indigenous artist Jeremy Dennis, will offer month-long residencies and other programming throughout 2022