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Palazzo of Pop Art: new gallery in Italy will house major collection of 20th-century art

Sonnabend Collection in Mantua—home to the collection of the late dealer Ileana Sonnabend—includes works by Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol as well as contemporary artists

Fast-rising Montana art organisation to take over century-old theatre

Bozeman-based Tinworks Art will start programming at the historic Rialto Theater with screenings of Matthew Barney’s neo-Western film “Redoubt”

Portland Art Museum to unveil $116m transformation with Mark Rothko at its heart

After more than a decade of planning, the US state’s largest ever capital investment in the arts opens with a new pavilion named for Rothko and a gallery devoted to Black artists

New York’s Studio Museum—known for championing Black artists—reopens in $300m new home

The legendary institution, which took seven years to build, reopens with an exhibition devoted to the works of Tom Lloyd

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver names new director

Anthony Kiendl, who most recently helmed the Vancouver Art Gallery, will start in Denver on 1 December

Ai Weiwei's cat-mouflage takeover of New York City park

Artist’s cat silhouettes in Four Freedoms Park work reinterprets camouflage pattern used by the military

Show at Civil War-era fort spotlights California’s Black history from the 19th century to today

A new exhibition at Fort Point in San Francisco, organised by the non-profit For-Site, features works by 16 artists and a collective

Stanford University acquires Filipina American artist Pacita Abad’s archive

“This is how art history gets written, from these primary-source materials,” says Stanford’s art and architecture librarian

Nelson-Atkins Museum picks architect for $160m expansion

The museum in Kansas City has tapped the firm Weiss Manfredi to overhaul its campus

Cecilia Alemani details her character-driven curatorial approach for next Site Santa Fe International

The 12th edition of the International will be structured around roughly 25 figures, both real and fictional, from a 19th-century saloon owner to the Indigenous author N. Scott Momaday

Miami Beach presentation to show there was more to Milton Avery than landscapes

Karma gallery, now representing the influential artist’s estate in the US, will reveal his circus-themed paintings at Art Basel Miami Beach and his ‘wild’ portraiture next year

New York's Kallir institute opens new home dedicated to Austrian and German Modernists

The Manhattan-based centre, which builds on legacy of Otto Kallir’s Galerie St Etienne, is making its vast library and archives available to scholars

Kasmin to represent Jackson Pollock’s work worldwide, next to Lee Krasner

The gallery’s partnership with the Pollock-Krasner Foundation expands eight years after it began

A storied public art collection in California makes space for emerging artists

The Stuart Collection at the University of California San Diego is launching an emerging artist programme with a trio of new commissions

Agnes Denes resurrects famous ‘Wheatfield’ work in Montana

Sowing seeds of sustainable development, the artist has planted a version of her celebrated Land art piece in booming Bozeman, Montana

French connection: how post-war Paris lured US artists

'Americans in Paris' is the inaugural exhibition at Grey Art Museum's new location at 18 Cooper Square, New York

Historic New York ceramic studio fires up second location

With its Jones Street home operating at full capacity, Greenwich House Pottery is opening a new outpost in Chelsea

Installations by Theaster Gates and James Little reinvigorate riverfront park in Memphis

The public space on the banks of the Mississippi, which honours a Black skiff boat operator who saved 32 people from drowning, features work by Theaster Gates and James Little

Phyllida Barlow's final, irreverent public art project takes form in New York

At the time of her death in March, the British sculptor had been working on a major Public Art Fund exhibition

Newfields and the Indianapolis Museum of Art seek to turn a corner after ‘triple tragedies’

The museum sparked scandal in 2021 with the phrasing of a job posting, but the new leader of its parent organisation says “we’re not a racist institution”

New scholarship honouring Mickalene Thomas will support MFA students at Yale

The collectors Bernard Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi, Jr, who met while studying at Yale, have endowed the new scholarship, recipients of which will also be mentored by Thomas

Secrets of Manhattan's Hispanic Society revealed after six year renovation

The first phase of the redevelopment of the New York museum of art from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries will open in April

Two San Francisco museums launch joint curatorial position focused on art of the African diaspora

The new position, created by SFMoMA and the Museum of the African Diaspora, will involve the development of exhibitions and other programmes at both institutions

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‘It was screaming for a female’: Shahzia Sikander on creating a statue of a woman for a Manhattan courthouse

The artist’s new commission for Madison Square Park and an adjacent court building also includes an augmented reality component

Four editions on, the Felix Art Fair aims to stay fresh

The fair founded in 2019 by collector Dean Valentine and gallerists Al and Mills Morán has carved out a significant niche as a Frieze alternative and local success story

Studio residency at the World Trade Center reserves space for formerly incarcerated artists

Silver Art Projects, which operates a year-long residency program at the Lower Manhattan office complex, has received support for the initiative from Agnes Gund’s Art for Justice Fund

'Heart of Matisse': new study centre dedicated to Modern master opens at Baltimore Museum of Art

US museum builds a permanent research space for its "crown jewel"—more than 1,200 works by Henri Matisse

‘More is more’: San Francisco’s new contemporary art centre reveals latest hires and inaugural programmes

The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco makes four key hires ahead of a series of pop-up events and exhibitions starting in January

Denver’s Gio Ponti-designed Art Museum gets a $150m revamp and a remix

Campus expansion opens up “standoffish” building and inspires a total rehang of the encyclopaedic art collections