Torey Akers
Laser scanning reveals lost Maya structures in forests of Campeche
Archaeologists have used light-detection and ranging (Lidar) technology to uncover new findings about ancient Maya Lowland settlements
Art Institute of Chicago to return 12th-century temple artefact to Thailand
The Krishna palister once stood along the doorframe of the most important monument to the Khmer dynasty in Thailand
Operators of New York auction house charged with illegal sales of ivory and rhino horn artefacts
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has charged the owners of Merces Gallery with selling prohibited animal products online
New York's Center for Italian Modern Art to close permanently
The Soho space will close its doors for good on 22 June
New study of skeletons at Chichén Itzá rewrites history of ancient Maya child sacrifice
An international research team performed genetic testing on 64 children's skeletons, debunking some longstanding myths about Maya religious sacrifices
A new artist residency and incubator launches in East Detroit
Founder Samara Furlong promises Buffalo Prescott will be place for Detroit artists to "experiment and dream"
Philadelphia's University of the Arts suddenly closes, prompting president's resignation, student protests and a class action lawsuit
The institution gave just week's notice before its 7 June closure, causing confusion and upheaval throughout the community
Los Angeles's Institute of Contemporary Art reveals details of $12m revamp and expansion
The downtown museum has announced an ambitious renovation plan that centers local artists
Getty Research Institute acquires photography dealer Peter MacGill's archive
The extensive archive, which includes client correspondence and daily records, will be catalogued over the course of the next few years
Cleveland Museum of Art will return ancient statue to Libya
The two-foot-tall artefact, which hails from Ancient Egypt's Ptolemaic Dynasty, will remain on view in Cleveland for "a few years"
Frida Kahlo museum clarifies that Madonna did not visit and try on the artist's clothes
Madonna may have tried on Kahlo's clothes during a previous visit to her family home
Lauren Halsey to create outdoor sculpture park in South Central, Los Angeles
In addition to the temporary sculpture park, Halsey will open a community centre in 2026 through her non-profit Summaeverythang
Stolen, century-old train-shaped weathervane returned to authorities in Vermont
The 114-year-old iron sculpture of a steam locomotive was stolen from the roof of a train station in 1983
Dispute over a potentially Nazi-looted Egon Schiele goes to trial in New York
Heirs of multiple Holocaust victims have made claims to the drawing, which a member of the Lehman Brothers banking dynasty bought as a gift for his son
DeviantArt and Midjourney deny wrongdoing in copyright infringement lawsuit over in AI image generators
Two giants of the image generation industry rejected copyright infringement claims from artists who allege their work was used to train an AI tool
Students arrested at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Fashion Institute of Technology amid crackdown on Palestinian solidarity encampments
Police arrested 68 people at the Art Institute of Chicago on Saturday and around 50 protesters at FIT on Tuesday
US authorities return antiquities linked with notorious smuggling ring to Egypt
The Egyptian items repatriated by the Manhattan District Attorney's office this week, collectively valued at $1.4m, include a wood coffin face and a royal alabaster vase
The New Art Dealers Alliance fair returns to New York’s Chelsea with off-the-wall works
The fair’s tenth edition features a critical mass of unusually arranged sculptures.
The female form takes many shapes at Future Fair
The Frieze New York satellite fair features an array of largely light-hearted works displaying melted, jumbled and disembodied limbs
Venus Williams to host new podcast for Carnegie Museum of Art
The tennis legend's audio venture will coincide with a photography exhibition exploring the relationship between artistry and landscape
‘The experience of giving birth is so abstract and intense’: Loie Hollowell on the challenge of painting pregnancy
The artist’s survey at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum tracks the formal language she developed to depict an essential process in life—one that, historically, has been rarely depicted
Jewish history museum in Philadelphia would become part of Smithsonian under proposed legislation
A new bill could create a commission to assess the feasibility of adding the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History to the Smithsonian family
FBI returns 22 looted artefacts to Japan
A haul of historic objects looted following the Battle of Okinawa make their way home after almost 80 years
Denver Art Museum to return 11 artefacts connected to smuggler Douglas Latchford
The repatriations to Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia come as the museum continues to distance itself from Latchford and his late collaborator Emma C. Bunker
Curator Naomi Beckwith awarded the $50,000 David C. Driskell Prize
The Guggenheim curator is being recognised for her outstanding contribution to the field of African American art
Frida Kahlo Corporation files trademark suit against Amazon sellers
The company that owns the anti-capitalist artist's image is embroiled in yet another legal tussle over representation
Laurene Powell Jobs's non-profit buys San Francisco Art Institute and its $50m Diego Rivera mural
After years of financial problems, the troubled institution will enter its next chapter with help from the Apple dynasty
Jeffrey Gibson and Jennie C. Jones will transform the Metropolitan Museum's outdoor spaces in 2025
The artists' forthcoming façade and rooftop installations at the museum will explore the intersections of identity and art history
Rita McBride: ‘I can draw through space, and it’s infinite’
The artist’s installation at the Hammer Museum dissolves space and time with laser beams and a uniquely science-fiction-flecked optimism
'Good night, moon lander': SpaceX lunar craft carrying 125 Jeff Koons sculptures expected to lose power
The tipped-over lander will soon lose contact with engineers on earth