Torey Akers

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Christopher Knight is retiring

After 36 years at the Los Angeles Times, the esteemed critic and journalist is putting down the pen

Llyn Foulkes, art world iconoclast, has died, aged 91

An anti-establishment fixture of the Los Angeles scene, Foulkes leaves behind a long legacy of furious expression spanning painting, sculpture, animation, music and more

Frieze lines up more than 95 exhibitors for next Los Angeles fair

The fair returns with a stacked list of participants, both new and familiar faces

New York gallery Sperone Westwater to close after 50 years amid lawsuit between co-founders

The blue-chip mainstay, which for the past 15 year has operated from a Foster + Partners-designed headquarters on the Bowery, will shutter at the end of December

Metropolitan Museum's new Condé M. Nast Galleries will put fashion at the forefront

Anna Wintour's efforts to "get out of the basement" have paid off as the Costume Institute prepares to take centre stage

Sculptor Alma Allen reportedly selected to represent US at 2026 Venice Biennale

After plans for a Robert Lazzarini presentation collapsed, another sculptor has reportedly been picked for the US Pavilion

Vatican Museums will return rare Indigenous kayak to Canada

The Vatican is working with the Canadian Catholic Church to return Indigenous artefacts

Nazi-looted Kirchner watercolour goes to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

The work was restituted to the descendants of collectors Ludwig and Rosy Fischer earlier this year

Manhattan block where Basquiat lived and worked renamed in his honour

The stretch of Great Jones Street that is home to the late artist's final home and studio has received a commemorative co-naming

Actor Gene Hackman’s art collection and original paintings head to auction

Bonhams will offer art, movie memorabilia and personal effects that belonged to the Hollywood star, who died in February 2025

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'It's about world-making': Tavares Strachan on his expansive new Lacma exhibition

The artist sheds light onto his interdisciplinary approach to excavating "invisible" histories

Authorities in New York return antiquities valued at $3m to Greece

Some of the artefacts were seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of ongoing investigations into the activities of smugglers Robin Symes and Eugene Alexander

An exhibition in New York City takes on censorship in the art world

As political art becomes increasingly subject to censorship in Trump's America, the free speech-focused organisation Art At A Time Like This organised a poignant show

Steve McQueen's granddaughter files lawsuit over $68m Jackson Pollock painting

Molly McQueen has alleged that a failed property exchange makes her the rightful owner of the Abstract Expressionist masterpiece

Christian Marclay's ‘Doors’ marks opening of Brooklyn Museum's new video art gallery

The museum's new Moving Image Gallery is its first dedicated space for showing durational art

Peru protests leave hundreds of tourists stranded at Machu Picchu

A labour dispute involving one of the country's major rail routes has left visitors to the famed Unesco World Heritage site in the lurch

US judge rules NEA’s review of ‘gender ideology’ in grant applications is unconstitutional

The National Endowment for the Arts' policy changes, made in response to one of Trump's executive orders, were found to violate the First Amendment

Jewish collector's heirs revive Nazi loot claim to Van Gogh Sunflowers painting

The heirs of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy are extending their legal battle in the US courts with the Japanese insurance company that currently owns the painting

Climate change threatens Indigenous ceramic tradition in Brazil

Local Waurá activists have taken the Brazilian government to task for complacency towards global warming as their ancestral pottery practice becomes harder to maintain

Nicholas Galanin pulls out of Smithsonian event, claiming censorship

The artist claims a symposium this weekend at the Smithsonian American Art Museum was made private, and guests were requested not to record it or post about it on social media

Pop-up Giphy Gallery makes the case for GIFs as fine art

A partnership between Giphy and the Museum of Modern GIFs has birthed a new way to look at the short-form animated image files we all use to punctuate text exchanges

New York's Art on Paper fair draws a fuzzy line between its titular medium and everything else

The 11th edition of the paper-focused fair explores the innumerable ways that the material can be used as a vehicle of expression—with some paintings and ceramics for good measure

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Reverend Joyce McDonald: ‘Art was like therapy for me’

On the occasion of her new Bronx Museum survey, McDonald reflects on how her ceramic practice and her faith helped her survive

‘Unicorn’ collection, expected to fetch $180m, comes to Christie's

The Weis family's private trove of masterworks has emerged at last

Must-see exhibitions in New York this autumn

Exhibitions honouring a Native American Modernist, a new generation of photographers and others are on the itinerary

Chicago school refurbished by Theaster Gates's non-profit will reopen to the public

The Land School, a $12m redevelopment project on the city's South Side backed by Gates' Rebuild Foundation, will launch its first phase on 14 September

Smithsonian leader meets with Trump for 'cordial' White House lunch

As the White House reviews the Smithsonian's programming, Lonnie G. Bunch was called in to meet with the president and one of the aides leading the review

Pro-Palestine mural boarded up overnight at University of North Carolina

The resistance mural, created by students and volunteers, was concealed by facilities workers on chancellor's orders with no prior warning, says arts department faculty

Future of giant Oldenburg and Van Bruggen sculpture uncertain following sale

Long a fixture outside the Iowa headquarters of the publisher formerly known as Dotdash Meredith, "Plantoir" has been sold and will soon be relocated to an undisclosed site

New York’s School of Visual Arts lays off 30 employees amid financial difficulties

The move sheds light on the budgetary struggles plaguing the art school