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New York mayor declares 31 May as Ellsworth Kelly Day in honour of artist's centennary

The artist's 100th birthday coincides with an array of exhibition programming, celebrations and municipal recognitions of Kelly's legacy

Agnes Gund's fund to end mass incarceration reveals its final round of grants

The collector and philanthropist's Art for Justice initiative has awarded $125m over the six years it has been active

San Diego's museums of art and photography will merge

The Balboa Park cultural mainstays will form one institution, effective 1 July

National Endowment for the Arts gives $103m in grants to organisations across the US

The NEA's second round of grants for fiscal year 2023 supports a wide range of exhibitions, partnerships and programmes

Two looted antiquities seized in New York will be returned to Iraq

The figurines, which were looted from the ancient city of Uruk, belong to one of the oldest civilisations on earth

San Diego-based collectors hand over pre-Hispanic artefacts to Mexican authorities

The 65 heritage objects in question include a glass with a clay pedestal dating from the Mesoamerican Classic period and a ceramic bowl dating from 200CE

Ceramics take centre stage at Spring Break’s 'secret' New York pop-up

The exhibition, in the upstart fair's original venue, features a dazzling array of fun and wonky table-top sculptures

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When 1970s art feels current: new pop-up fair 'disrupts the usual fair week' in New York

That 70s Show includes only artists who were active during the titular decade

The best works at Frieze New York, as chosen by curator Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy

The California curator favours challenging media and juxtaposition in works that capture the present

Pioneering AI artist wins inaugural $100,000 award from New York's Guggenheim and LG

Stephanie Dinkins wins prize that celebrates excellence in works at the intersection of art and technology

How Cecily Brown breathed life back into painting for a new generation

Brown's survey exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art brings fresh eyes to a time-tested medium

Artist Aliza Nisenbaum on colour, Queens and how she makes her paintings 'glow'

The Mexico City-born painter has an exhibition at New York's Queens Museum as well as a new commission for LaGuardia Airport

The oldest Hebrew Bible in existence breaks auction record for a manuscript at Sotheby's

The price for the Codex Sassoon surpassed the sum Bill Gates paid for a Leonardo da Vinci codex in 1994

Judge refuses to toss two copyright infringement lawsuits against Richard Prince

New York judge says the appropriation artist's New Portraits series does not achieve the level of transformation necessary to shield him from litigation

Twelve must-see exhibitions in New York during Frieze

From Lauren Halsey's new commission for the Met rooftop to funkily subversive sculptures at the Museum of Arts and Design, the season's essential exhibitions

Dreams and nightmares abound at New York's Independent art fair

The latest spring edition of the fair places an emphasis on phantasmagorical figuration

Sarah Sze: the artist creating complex immersive worlds from everyday objects

The US artist discusses her solo show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and her upcoming Artangel project in an abandoned London train station waiting room

Amid mounting scrutiny of its collecting practices, Metropolitan Museum will form provenance research squad

The museum has responded to accusations that its collection includes looted artefacts by creating its largest research arm to date

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Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle returns to the big screen in New York

The screening of this ambitious contribution to cinema, showing in its entirety in New York for the first time in eight years, coincides with the debut of Barney's newest project

Former OpenSea employee found guilty in first-ever NFT insider trading trial

Former OpenSea product manager Nathanie Chastain has been convicted of wire fraud and money laundering in a landmark case

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, becomes ‘nexus for the study of Islamic art’

Texas institution opens six new galleries to display its collection of Islamic art, coinciding with its hosting of symposium on the subject

A pop-up museum in New York pushes back against 'excessive policing'

The Museum of Broken Windows takes on themes of state-sponsored racial injustice in light of New York mayor Eric Adams's planned municipal budget allocating $11bn to the NYPD

Florida educator ousted for showing students Michelangelo's David visits sculpture in Florence

Former Tallahassee Classical School principal Hope Carrasquilla travelled to Italy and met with the Galleria del'Accademia's director

50 US museums receive grants and art from the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation

As the late artist's 100th birthday nears, his foundation is undertaking the largest philanthropic project in its history

Getty Images rejects venture capital firm's $4bn takeover bid

Getty Images has rejected a takeover attempt by the Boston-based venture investment company Trillium Capital, citing issues with the feasibility and transparency of the bid

San Francisco Art Institute files for bankruptcy

After years of financial troubles, one of the Bay Area's leading art school's faces the potential liquidation of its storied archive

Bored Ape Yacht Club creators score legal victory in lawsuit against artists who made copycat NFT collection

Yuga Labs has won a partial victory in its legal dispute with artists Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen; the decision could impact future copyright copyright rules in Web3

A fugitive art dealer convicted of selling counterfeit art 14 years ago has been extradited to the US

Angela Catherine Hamblin, who has been hiding out in a small village in Scotland for over a decade, is being extradited to the US

First-ever insider trading trial over NFTs set to begin in Manhattan court

A former OpenSea employee has been accused of insider trading; the outcome of the case may change the meaning of that phrase forever

Florida bill would allow civilians to sue over damage to or removal of Confederate monuments

The proposed legislation is seen as an effort to defend Confederate monuments and markers in the public sphere by streamlining civil lawsuits