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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Get plastered at the Institute of Classical Art

Collection of forgotten casts from the Metropolitan Museum get new home in Manhattan

Police in Greece arrest 26 in bust of alleged antiquities smuggling ring

Investigators recovered more than 2,000 objects, mostly coins, that they say were offered for sale through auction houses

Roman coins found in Okinawa castle point to early links between Japan and the West

The artefacts may have come to the island, which was as an important trade route, from Muslim or Chinese merchants

Tate to honour Bruce Nauman with major retrospective (after MoMA's)

US artist's survey in London in 2019 to follow exhibition at Basel's Schaulager and in New York

Met lays off 34 employees

Staff cuts are part of a larger restructuring to reduce deficit by $30m

Archaeologists and cultural professionals join petition against North Dakota pipeline

More than 1,000 sign letter denouncing construction of oil route that crosses Native American ancestral lands

Thomas Heatherwick steps up to the challenge of creating a centrepiece for Hudson Yards redevelopment

The British designer unveiled his hive-like staircase structure to be installed in a new public square on the West Side of Manhattan

Three to see: New York

From a New York Ab-Ex anniversary to Bruce Nauman striking a sculptural pose

Nobuyoshi Araki nude photos censored in Mexico City

After a local bar was forced to remove images of nude women from its walls, the gallery Kurimanzutto plans to restage the show

Bill Viola reconnects with Florence’s Old Masters for Palazzo Strozzi show

Uccello and Masolino’s frescoes on US artist’s “wish list” for retrospective next year

Artist Betsy Davis ends her life under California’s doctor-assisted dying law

Before she died, the 41-year-old multimedia and performance artist diagnosed with ALS invited friends and family to a weekend goodbye party

Ancient Roman mosaics uncovered in Cyprus

Two rare finds were made in a matter of weeks, depicting chariot races and the labours of Hercules

Turkish painter and journalist Zehra Doğan arrested

Her art and writing has reportedly been used against her as evidence of ties to “illegal” Kurdish organisation

Helen Mirren testifies in support of Holocaust art restitution bill

The actress appeared with other advocates in Washington, DC to speak at a Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing

Kienholz’s Five Car Stud goes back on view in Milan

The brutal installation about racist violence continues to have an impact 45 years later

Meet the birdman of Brooklyn

Duke Riley has trained 2,000 pigeons to perform for Creative Time—and they took flight this weekend

Maurizio Cattelan and a donkey who's starred at the Met—it must be Frieze New York

Installation first shown in 1994 at Daniel Newburg Gallery—just for one day

Kerry James Marshall: driven to make a difference

As his touring US solo exhibition opens in Chicago, where he lives, the painter reflects on the oddness of survey shows, the power of the market and achieving all his dreams

Kerry James Marshall’s epic black superhero

The Chicago artist would like to turn his comic into an animated film on the scale of Star Wars

Steinway pairs visual artists and composers in new piano commissions

Mark Bradford and Robert Glasper are the first to create a collaborative work

Isil driven out of Palmyra

Early reports indicate that ancient sites that survived the terrorist group’s destruction are in “good condition”

Walk among Olympic gods—in New York

The Onassis Cultural Center is hosting a major loan exhibition of objects from the archaeological site of Dion

Lucky number 13: Edinburgh Art Festival announces packed programme

The city will be taken over this summer by exhibitions and artist projects, including new work by Damián Ortega and Christian Boltanski

Fourth object from Asia Week sales seized by federal agents

Sculptures from India, Afghanistan and Pakistan have been confiscated in a string of raids on auction houses and a gallery

Qatari poet released from prison after royal pardon

Muhammad ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami was given a 15-year sentence for reciting a poem in support of the Arab Spring on YouTube

Who's afraid of Robert Mapplethorpe?

As a major exhibition on the New York photographer opens at Lacma and the Getty Museum, the question of what kind of work museums can show rumbles on

Art world’s billionaires are slightly less rich

Forbes’ annual ranking of the world’s wealthiest people reveals that personal fortunes may have taken a hit, but the same names stay at the top