As Frieze Los Angeles opens, we look at the LA art scene. Plus, we explore the Met's exhibition Sahel about art from the Sahara. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793

The San Francisco-based philanthropist tells us what she's bought and why

Museum of Contemporary art exhibition goes beyond the anti-Minimalist tagline

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from an "erotic" depiction of Adam to a masterpiece by a female French painter

Curator says that conservators might be able to dry many wet objects in the museum’s archive

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts chronicles achievements and inner debates of the Kamoinge Workshop

The Washington institution also announces joint effort with London communities to train young adults

An estimated 85,000 items are feared lost, including letters, antique wedding dresses and photographs

From Kehinde Wiley’s reimagining of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Brooklyn Museum to Luhring Augustine and Sam Fogg’s collaborative show on Gothic art

Lower East Side location will unite exhibition space with the institution's school of 3,500 students

From John Baldessari to Tony Oursler, the marketing effort unites artists of multiple generations

Ian and Annette Cumming set out to commission likenesses of people who would remain renowned

Twenty-three of the US artist’s surviving panels will be reunited for the first time in six decades at the Peabody Essex Museum

Departure follows New York Times article describing objectionable behaviour with female employees

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from a rising star of Weimar-era Berlin to a Bohemian Virgin and Child

A colonial-era church collapses and more damage to historic buildings is expected

Spectral CT scans enabled the Dallas Museum of Art to identify unknown elements in the West African piece

Sites targeted range from a Yemeni palace in ruins to a shrine destroyed by the Islamic State in Iraq

Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019

We look back at the biggest stories of the year

V&A and Lacma plan to stabilise and restore works to their original appearance

Exhibition includes 19th-century breast plates and clubs made from whale ivory, as well as a newly commissioned 26ft canoe

Conservators discover that the 1566 painting was once bluer and revisit the exposure of the notorious codpieces

Institution declares that the name “runs counter to the school’s mission”

Museum officials say the decision is unrelated to protests over the Sackler family's ties to Purdue Pharma

Online trove includes 60,000 photographs, manuscripts, records and drawings and an updated catalogue raisonné

Restoration will remove centuries of grime and stabilise the sculpture at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo

Ancient artisans in British Columbia heated ochre “gunk” to high temperatures to achieve a vivid and long-lasting red

Yearlong 2018 effort drew 2.5 million people and brought attention to overlooked artists

The 1957 home, the Currier Museum of Art's second Wright dwelling, is built in the “Usonian Automatic” style, with rectangular concrete blocks