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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What does Trump's plan to abolish estate tax mean for collectors?

The plan could be a mixed bag for both wealthy market players and cultural charities

Art collector Steven Cohen gave $1m to Trump inauguration

Other high-net-worth donors include Sheldon Adelson, Steven Wynn, and Henry Kravitz

House Republicans join fight to save NEA

Bipartisan letter to budget committee urges an increase in funding

Bruce Nauman's sound piece returns to Tate Modern's Turbine Hall

Veteran conceptual artist will also be subject of Artist Rooms show in Tate’s Switch House extension

Controversy over Emmett Till painting at Whitney Biennial goes beyond art world

Open letter calling for work by Dana Schutz to be “destroyed” has even been discussed on US talk show

Theaster Gates raises the roof in Hong Kong

For his White Cube show, the US artist has elevated labour to an art form

David Rockefeller, banker, philanthropist and lifetime MoMA patron, dies at age 101

The former chairman’s ties to the institution reach back to his mother Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, who helped found the museum

Trump wants to axe NEA and other culture agencies

The president’s first federal budget proposal would also eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Bill Viola reimagines the Renaissance with a retrospective in Florence

In 1974, fresh after graduating from the experimental studies programme at Syracuse University’s visual and performing arts department, Bill Viola moved to Florence to work at Art/Tapes/22, one of the first video art production studios in Europe

Female artists make their presence felt at ADAA Art Show

Art Dealers Association of America's fair kicks off Armory week with a feminine touch

Bill Viola reimagines the Renaissance with a retrospective in Florence

The Palazzo Strozzi mixes Viola's videos and installations with the Old Masters that inspired them

Bacon triptych, once owned by Roald Dahl, to lead Christie’s New York sales in May

The auction house is also selling works by Picasso, Ernst and Lichtenstein to benefit Cleveland Clinic

Read the letter sent by 24 senators asking President Trump to keep funding the NEA and NEH

The bipartisan group outlines the importance of the culture agencies and how they improve American’s lives

What defunding the NEA would mean for US museums

The country's cultural institutions speak out about the importance of the National Endowment for the Arts, as President Trump's office drafts a new budget

Arte Povera artist Jannis Kounellis has died, aged 80

The sculptor was known for his use of lowly materials like coal, jute bags and piles of stones

How the estate of Thailand’s missing ‘Silk King’ was among the winners of Reagan’s 1986 Tax Reform Act

The sweeping legislation cleared a hefty tax bill for the heirs of American businessman Jim Thompson, whose home and collection in Bangkok was turned into a public museum

Christie’s promotes Guillaume Cerutti to chief executive

While Sotheby’s hires Rauschenberg Foundation’s Christy MacLear to in-house advisory team

Bill protecting works of art lent by foreign institutions passes US Senate

Supporters say legislation will encourage cultural exchange, but opponents fear it will block restitution of works seized in countries like Russia

Fire at California artists’ collective claims 33 lives

The Oakland warehouse, known as the Ghost Ship, had been under investigation for safety violations

Mark Dion goes inside the mind of a plant explorer

The US artist recreates the Coconut Grove laboratory of the most influential botanist you’ve never heard of

Fairsnews

Speakers, ceramics and a miniature forest: Design Miami’s eclectic spread

SHoP Architects's pavilion outside the fair may be catching the most eyeballs on Instagram, but inside, collectors will find a wide range of classic design and contemporary crafts that are worthy of their attention

President Trump: the knowns and unknowns

First reactions to property tycoon’s election to the White House and what it could mean for the arts

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (partially) open at last

The public gets a peek inside the long-delayed building with the temporary exhibition Urgent Conversations: Athens-Antwerp

The great 3D quantum leap

As the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis prepares for its 2017 survey of Merce Cunningham, it has commissioned an ambitious work from Charles Atlas, the late choreographer’s former collaborator

Germany to open culture house on Fifth Avenue

Former ambassador's home will host cultural and diplomatic events, exhibitions, symposia and artists’ residencies

Kerry James Marshall makes his picks from the Met’s collection

The artist said he felt like a kid in a candy store when selecting works from the encyclopaedic museum, including one of his favourite paintings, Ingres’ Odalisque in Grisaille