Following similar fund for scholars, Institute of International Education with funding from Mellon Foundation launch project to aid persecuted artists and performers

Gagosian Gallery and six Hollywood execs in months of negotiations to use images of Superman, Iron Man and Spiderman <br>

State’s House of Representatives urges Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art to step up its provenance research

The newly appointed museum director plans to promote site-specific and politically engaged projects

Matthew Teitelbaum—who starts his new job as the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in August—on what it takes to run an encyclopaedic museum today

The longtime leader of the public arts non-profit Creative Time will succeed outgoing director Arnold Lehman

Four local artists have been invited to work for three months each in the heart of one of the world’s most famous tourist attractions

As a major retrospective opens in Washington, DC, the artist reflects on 20 years of challenging Western stereotypes of Iran

Symposium will examine the 1989 show that led to trial of museum director

Dealers stand to benefit because the Biennale opened early this year

Curator Massimiliano Gioni remembers artist who never failed to surprise

Los Angeles-based artist who pushed performances and sculpture to extreme limits and illuminated Lacma

Panel of federal judges say 5% resale royalty law can only apply to works sold within California

The auction house took a chance sticking to a schedule that clashed with the Venice Biennale’s opening—and it paid off

The Rubin Museum of Art is showing art, organising tours and hosting events to help support the earthquake ravaged country

France takes the lead as calls grow for co-ordinated response after attacks by fanatics on Assyrian royal cities

Unable to afford Manhattan’s astronomical rents, the small secular museum will close in June with its hit exhibition of Donatello sculptures on loan from the Duomo museum

Founder Lauren Scott Miller plans to “go mobile” with her creative programming

America’s first purpose-built art gallery, located just across from the White House, has undergone a $30m renovation

Leading artists among the guests at preview parties at New York museum

But it remains unclear what chance either proposal has of passing into law while Republicans control both houses of Congress

Appellate Court upholds First Amendment rights but encourages stricter privacy laws in future

Survey reveals prevalence of Pace, Gagosian, David Zwirner, Marian Goodman and Hauser &amp; Wirth in exhibition programming