Sheena Wagstaff says the move is part of a “positive, forward-thinking” new regime under Max Hollein’s directorship

Conservator calls in master storyteller to decipher shamanic object

We talk to the curator Kathy Halbreich about the giant two-part Bruce Nauman retrospective at MoMA and MoMA PS1. Plus, the specialist in Islamic studies Jane Jakeman reviews the new Islamic displays at London’s British Museum. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Work was wired to an element that overheated, museum says, and institution quickly reopened

In a range of models for Christopher Park, creators celebrate activists who they feel have been overlooked

Tests by German institute show "characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin"

Institution hopes to raise £15,000 to clean and conserve wooden structure surrounding The Snake in the Grass

From Yasumasa Morimura’s play on Western paintings at Japan Society to Leonor Fini’s freedom at the Museum of Sex

More than 100 years after a spirit commanded her to break with naturalism, the vision of the Swedish artist is realised at the Guggenheim

The original owner, Alfred Flechtheim, fled the Nazis in 1933 after a stream of anti-Semitic attacks

In this week's podcast, curator Helen C. Evans tells a story of cross-pollination across 14 centuries

Purchase is part of a new programme known as the African American Art History Initiative

Edgar Miller finally gets his due as the city prepares to celebrate the overlooked designer’s eclectic work

The Brutalist structure will house Frick’s historic collection during expansion of its 70th Street home

How Samuel Courtauld’s collection ignited Britain’s passion for Impressionists. Plus, New York’s Metropolitan Museum looks at Armenia, the first country to convert to Christianity. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Christie's to sell $70m painting once pledged to the Seattle Art Museum

From long-hidden sculptures to a Land Art pioneer’s early cogitations

New York show recreates 1970s installations that inspired her best known work

Rebuffing heirs, an appeals panel in New York says the court lacks jurisdiction

From righteous indignation to interactive play

New scheme offering free tickets to some of the city’s most popular museums had thousands of responses

Italian government claims licence application did not state portrait was of Prince Camillo Borghese