Victoria Stapley-Brown

Spy games: Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron turn the Park Avenue Armory into a panopticon playground

The show Hansel and Gretel, which looks at how surveillance changes the perception of public space, is a mix of menace and fun

Museums in the US and Canada show their Pride in June

Institutions are celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month with exhibitions and events

Noose left at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

This is the second such incident at a Smithsonian museum in a week

Thomas Campbell gives his last press conference at the Met

The outgoing director emphasised the museum’s accomplishments during his eight-year tenure

Giovanni da Rimini's images of religious splendour shine in the National Gallery

A Renaissance masterpiece is unveiled, but its mystery remains unsolved

Massachusetts museum’s expansion enables artists to dream big

Mass MoCA has planned massive, long-term shows on artists such as Jenny Holzer and James Turrell

How a $25,000 NEA grant became a springboard for change in a rural Minnesota community

The government money helped launch an initiative that has raised $1.2m in private funding

New Orleans biennial Prospect.4 announces artist lineup and focus

With the theme The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, artistic director Trevor Schoonmaker stays in tune with the history of the city, the birthplace of jazz

The Bass is back: Miami Beach museum set to reopen in October after $12m renovation (and multiple delays)

A trio of solo shows will inaugurate the restructured space, which aims to respect the building’s Art Deco roots

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Brooklyn's UrbanGlass celebrates 40 years

The non-profit has provided an experimental platform for artists, including Rauschenberg and Chihuly, seeking to expand their practice into glass

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Great art in New York's great outdoors

A peek at some projects around the city

Getty Centre displays Killip’s chronicle of de-industrialised Britain

Images from In Flagrante make up the core of this solo exhibition

David Smith’s sculptures get some space to breathe at Storm King

This will be the first exhibition to focus on Smith's use of the colour white

Bipartisan politicians rally to save US cultural funding

Criticism of President Trump’s proposed cuts creates united front of Democrats and Republicans

What French presidential candidates Macron and Le Pen have in store for the arts

Both politicians have pitched new cultural, artistic and heritage measures

Late artist Marisol leaves the lot to the Albright-Knox

Sculptures, photos, drawings, archives, property and other artists’ works go to the upstate New York museum the artist wanted to be the home for her art

Mark Dion brings early 20th-century celebrity art and science team back to life at the Drawing Center

An exhibition offers a fresh look at the work of the Department of Tropical Research

Fondation Louis Vuitton offers a snapshot of contemporary African art

The art of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa make a big impact in Paris

Philadelphia Museum of Art breaks ground on Frank Gehry-designed core renovation

While the museum’s building is classical, the project is not "classic Frank Gehry"

The fate of Alexander Calder’s Universe hangs in the balance

Monumental mobile is leaving the lobby of Chicago’s Willis Tower to be put in storage

Old Masters and Impressionist art from the record-setting Stillman Collection to be auctioned at Christie’s

Sales of works throughout the year will benefit the late philanthropist and land conservationist’s Wethersfield Foundation