Torey Akers
The Portland Museum of Art picks mass timber design for $100m 'expansion and unification' project
Lever, a sustainability-minded firm, won the international design competition for the museum's ambitious campus overhaul
Documentary about Nan Goldin and her opioid crisis activism earns Oscar nomination
Laura Poitras's film, which follows Goldin's campaign against members of the Sackler family, has been nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category
University exhibition closes after students decry 'racially insensitive' art in MLK Day protest
Artist Dominique Simmons opted to remove her work from an exhibition at Arkansas Tech University after hundreds of students marched in protest against its presence on campus
SFMoMA acquires its first NFT, a work by tech art pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson
The museum is one of the most prominent to date to acquire a blockchain-backed digital artwork for its permanent collection
Police recover paintings by Elaine de Kooning and others stolen in Colorado art heist
Paintings worth $400,000 that were stolen from a storage truck on 14 December 2022 have been located in a Colorado hotel room
US returns stolen artefact to Palestine as part of investigation into New York collector Michael Steinhardt
The US government has returned a looted ivory spoon in the first repatriation exchange between the two countries
US government returns looted sarcophagus to Egypt
A trafficked coffin that may have belonged to an ancient priest has been returned
More than $400,000 of art stolen from a padlocked truck in Boulder, Colorado
Police are investigating the theft of five paintings from a vehicle in a hotel car park
Scientists used drones and AI to identify 168 more Nazca Lines geoglyphs in Peru
New additions to the mysterious Nazca Lines have been identified by scientists from Japan's Yagamata University through the use of aerial drone footage and artificial intelligence
Collector cracks art heist cold case with a pillowcase and reverse Google image search
Decades after it was stolen from the Worcester Art Museum, collector Clifford Schorer spotted a missing Dutch Golden Age painting printed on a throw pillow
Seeking return of Van Gogh Sunflowers painting sold under Nazi coercion, German Jewish banker's heirs sue Japanese insurance company
The banker's heirs claim that the current owner, which bought "Sunflowers" for a then-record $39.9m at Christie's in 1987, ignored the painting's provenance issues
After sudden dismissal of all its members, Pittsburgh mayor moves to overhaul the city's public art commission
The city's mayor, Ed Gainey, has proposed a series of sweeping changes to the way public art is funded and commissioned there
Madonna, Justin Bieber, Paris Hilton and others accused of fraud in star-studded NFT lawsuit
Many A-list celebrities have been accused of neglecting to disclose compensation for endorsing Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs
Temporary monuments to pop up on the National Mall in Washington, DC, in new initiative
Six artists have been selected to create commemorative interventions in the US capital's sprawling public space
The Netherlands returns more than 200 pre-Hispanic artefacts to Mexico
In all, 223 pre-Hispanic objects have been repatriated to Mexico by the Dutch government, largely through the power of social media
Monumental tree sculpture to be unveiled on New York’s High Line elevated park
High Line Art has commissioned artist Pamela Rosenkranz to make a 25ft-tall, red and pink tree in the park
Crypto winter is here—and NFT artist royalties are under threat
As sales plummet, crypto traders are pushing for larger profits on NFT resales, with four marketplaces no longer honouring secondary sales royalties
Artist takes abortion fight to the beach in Miami
Conceptual artist Michele Pred will draw two giant abortion pills for reproductive health justice
Proceeds from sale of Banksy sculpture will aid refugees
The work, depicting a boat of refugees, is at Context Art Miami fair
Mushrooms, moss and disco ball mirrors: our seven favourite works from Design Miami
The fair's theme this year "The Golden Age" looked towards the future amid present global uncertainties
'Art Basel has to keep changing': after 20 years, what is next for the fair juggernaut?
Noah Horowitz and Vincenzo de Bellis discuss their visions for the global fair brand and its flagship US fair in Miami
Miami artist billboard project puts justice in the spotlight
Series of works by new and established artists aims to highlight Florida’s huge imprisonment rate to Art Basel Miami Beach fair-goers
Home of Henry Ossawa Tanner—one of the first internationally renowned African American artists—faces demolition
A local grassroots group has begun a fundraising campaign to save a piece of local Black history in North Philadelphia
New York court dismisses restitution case brought against the Israel Museum
A Holocaust restitution case over the Bird’s Head Haggadah, the oldest manuscript of its kind, has been dismissed by the New York Supreme Court on behalf of the Israel Museum
Banksy calls out fashion brand Guess for using Flower Thrower image in London store display
The artist did not hold back in an Instagram post accusing the brand of illegal use of his artwork at a London store and encouraging his followers to shoplift from it
Banksy shares behind-the-scenes video of his Ukraine interventions
The secretive artist has dropped a short making-of documentary chronicling his guerilla interventions in war-torn Horenka
Massachusetts museum repatriates Wounded Knee Massacre artefacts to Lakota and Sioux nations
The Founders Museum, a small institution housed in a library, returned a variety of tribal objects to their rightful owners in South Dakota
Trove of terracotta figurines discovered in ancient Chinese tomb
An archaeological team from the Datong Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology has unearthed a trove of well-preserved figures that provide a glimpse at life in the region 1,500 years ago
Are US museums becoming more inclusive? New surveys of workers and trustees provide modest hope
Two extensive surveys, led by the Mellon Foundation and the Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums, suggest mixed results for the cultural field’s diversity efforts
Getty Trust pledges $1m to help protect Ukrainian cultural heritage
The International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas is partnering with the Getty to save Ukraine’s museums and monuments