From America's African facelift to the scents of hope and fear, here are the exhibitions we loved at the heart of the big event

Shipping chaos has derailed plans for the Central Asian nation's inaugural pavilion—but its organisers are improvising solutions

Plus, Winslow Homer at the Met and China's Russia problem

Plus, the exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories opens in Washington and Raphael's late self-portrait at London's National Gallery

Institutions are increasingly including “morals clauses” in gift agreements to protect themselves if donors fall from grace

City council's move to enforce wage disclosures in job adverts could usher in a sea change at major US cultural institutions—challenging persistent pay inequality in the sector

An investor has bought the 168-year-old publication for a fraction of its claimed value

Plus, Chris Burden's unrealised projects and an in-depth look at F.N. Souza's Mr Sebastian at the Barbican in London

New York institution condemns the Russian invasion of Ukraine in its statement on the resignation

Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a sophisticated misinformation campaign alongside his invasion of Ukraine. If you want objective visual reporting, here are the best verified photographers on the frontlines of the war

Top photo fair divests shares to World Photography Organisation, which launched Shanghai Photofairs in 2014

Cultural sites turn away visitors while iconic architecture is “shredded to pieces” by storm

Ahead of shows in Cape Town and Marrakech, the Malagasy artist reflects on how both his island country and his adoptive home, Paris, have shaped his practice

Ambitious new gallery Hakanto Contemporary sets out to boost art scene of island nation—but with many of its residents experiencing the effects of devastating floods, is culture really top of their list?

With the arts sector increasingly vulnerable in the wake of the pandemic, a new breed of digitally optimised worker is emerging

The hulking Claiborne Expressway that bisects Tremé, a seat of New Orleans culture, has been a source of inspiration and concern—explicitly and implicitly—for generations of artists

Social media giant will now delete published images and videos that violate a person's privacy—a move that could prove detrimental to news reporting

Pioneering film is part of the first major retrospective of Maryan, the Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor now newly celebrated in death

New institution will include exhibitions about digital art, as well as QR codes for visitors to view NFT works

Serrano’s debut film montages the footage created by Capitol attackers with earlier recordings, creating a portrait of a nation at war with itself

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Despite cutting 11% of staff, the museum’s director Richard Armstrong appears to have effectively received a 40% pay increase in 2020, listed as "deferred compensation"

Baldwin, who has died at the age of 92, was a “shining example of generosity” driven by his experience of the Civil Rights Movement

The privately owned Honresfield Library, which includes manuscripts by the Brontës, Jane Austen and Walter Scott, was due to be scattered to global buyers at a Sotheby's auction before a British consortium stepped in

Sally Mann's images of the Great Dismal Swamp gutted by wildfire "epitomise the great fire of racial strife in America"

We look back on a year of museums commandeered as Covid-19 vaccine centres, masterpieces sold as NFTs and much talk over the Benin bronzes

Curator of Portuguese pavilion says Grada Kilomba's application to represent the country was swung by a jury member who delegitimised her experience of racism

Lifelong documenter of Harlem is the first Black photographer to have entire archive acquired by the New York museum

Complex that will include a research institute for the Barbados Archives—a 400-year-old documentation of the British transatlantic slave trade

Show includes never before seen works by the prolific painter Maryan whose career went far beyond the Nazi atrocities he witnessed