Helen Stoilas

Helen was previously Editor, Americas and has worked for The Art Newspaper since 2003. She regularly reports on political and social issues that affect artists and institutions.

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Mosaic floor from Caligula’s ship returned to Italy

New York authorities tracked down the object, which was being used as a coffee table by a Manhattan couple, after a photograph appeared in a book on porphyry

World Monuments Fund recognises sites threatened by conflict, climate change and natural disasters

Cultural locations in the Caribbean, the US Gulf coast and Mexico hit by recent hurricanes and earthquakes were a last minute addition to the list

US to pull out of Unesco by 2018

The State Department says the decision was based on concerns over funding and anti-Israel bias in the cultural organisation

Whitney makes the case for David Hammons’s ‘ghost monument’ on the Hudson River

The museum presented its proposal for the public work at a community board meeting Wednesday night—and early reactions were positive

Four things to see during the Chicago Architecture Biennial

From imaginative scale models to a pop-up ‘freak’ show, we pick the must see projects around the city

Rehab and reuse top of agenda at Chicago Architecture Biennial

The second edition promises visionary solutions and a few surprises

Metropolitan Museum of Art finalises job description for director search

Search committee conducted "broad outreach" inside and outside the museum to define future leader’s desired traits

MCA Chicago goes global

A new initiative aims to “embed within the DNA of the museum” a more international view of the art historical canon

Florida museums assess damage and start repairs in Irma’s wake

The region’s arts institutions survived the storm largely intact, with some planning to reopen this week

Miami museums hunker down ahead of Hurricane Irma

Florida declares a state of emergency and Miami Beach residents are urged to evacuate

White House review could shrink protected land around Michael Heizer’s City

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s report on national monuments recommends reductions but no details revealed

Countdown begins for sculpture’s lift-off

Trevor Paglen and Nevada Museum Of Art crowdfund to launch his “purely artistic” satellite

President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities members resign en masse in protest

In a letter sent to the White House today, artists and cultural figures including Chuck Close, Kal Penn, and Jhumpa Lahiri censure President Trump for his “hateful rhetoric”

Charlottesville riot hastens removal of Confederate monuments throughout the US

City and state governments around the country are looking at what to do with the controversial statues

De Kooning painting stolen from Arizona museum was hanging in New Mexico couple’s bedroom

A local newspaper has identified the owners of the estate where the missing painting was found

NEH awards $39m in grants in last round of funding for 2017

The agency, which was targeted for elimination by the Trump administration, supports culture and history projects across the US

The Met might return another ancient vase to Italy

A fourth-century BC terracotta krater was turned over to the DA’s office last week based on evidence it was looted

Will the land surrounding Michael Heizer’s City stay protected?

US Interior Secretary hinted at downsizing after visiting two of Nevada’s national monuments, as part of review ordered by President Trump

Berkshire Museum courts censure from museums groups with plan to sell 40 works

Among the objects to be auctioned for the endowment and refurbishment are two paintings by Norman Rockwell

Images of melting glaciers head to backyard of Trump’s Florida home

Exhibition highlighting effects of climate change to open near Mar-a-Lago

Art Basel: things that go clang!

Motorised sculpture comes in many guises

Wolfgang Tillmans: ‘It’s the great album tracks that didn’t become singles’

The artist reveals the ideas behind his solo show at the Fondation Beyeler—the Basel museum’s first photography exhibition

Why artists, even art fair-averse ones, are in Basel this week

Athens, Venice, ARoS, Kassel, Münster—and now in Art Basel

In pictures: the ideal home, at Design Miami/Basel

The fair has a domestic vibe this year, from Jean Prouvé's house for wartime refugees to Max Lamb's metal-sprayed polystyrene furniture

Google partners with 180 institutions to launch art and fashion platform

We Wear Culture presents objects, exhibitions, videos and virtual tours of international collections

When does a photograph lie? Taryn Simon's Innocents series looks at how images can be used to blur truth and fiction

The artist's images of the wrongfully committed go on show this month at the Guild Hall in New York

Organisers of Ghost Ship artist space charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter

The two men were involved in creating unsafe conditions at the converted Oakland warehouse that caught fire last year, prosecutors say

Sam Durant’s controversial Scaffold to be dismantled and burned

The artist and museum have reached an agreement with Dakota after protests

Walker Art Center postpones opening of sculpture park after Native American protests

Sam Durant’s Scaffold, which includes a recreation of a gallows used to hang 38 Dakota men in 1862, will probably be dismantled