Victoria Stapley-Brown

New consortium seeks to promote Indian art in New York and beyond

Sotheby’s is among the partners in the initiative led by the India Center Foundation

Sophie Calle gets a new haunt: Green-Wood cemetery

French artist to present a deeply personal 25-year project with Creative Time

Can art redress economic inequality? A new white cube museum on a former Congo plantation aims to find out

The Lusanga center is a partnership between the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League and the Dutch Institute for Human Activities

Centre Pompidou broke even on Koons retrospective, Paris court decision reveals

Due to a €1.25m loan fee to the Whitney, the museum did not see many profits from one of their biggest shows ever

Whitney Biennial expands definition of American art

The show will include foreign-born artists based in the US and gives site-specific installations and other works room to “breathe”—with more exhibition space than ever before

The ICA Miami goes both global and local in its new home opening this December

Site-specific commissions include works by established stars like Chris Ofili and emerging artists like Tomm El-Saieh

Nelson-Atkins Museum’s new European art galleries come with a “love story”

The space is named after Henry and Marion Bloch, who donated a collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works they built together

How American museums are celebrating Women's History Month

A number of female-focussed programmes have been planned around the country for March—and the whole year round

Controversial trove from imperial Chinese shipwreck lands in New York

Extraordinarily well-preserved luxury goods, plumbed from the ocean’s depths by commercial salvaging company, are now on view at the Asia Society

Liberty, fraternity, Fossil Free: activists protest oil giant Total’s sponsorship at Louvre

In the first climate change performance inside the Paris museum, protesters shed black clothes to create a mock oil spill

Curator Jarrett Gregory heads to the Hirshhorn

She joins Smithsonian museum’s growing curatorial team just after organising Armory Show Focus sector

Spencer Hays, who donated his collection to the Musée d’Orsay, has died

The philanthropist and businessman began collecting works with his wife Marlene in the 1970s

Shifting Focus: The Armory Show shakes up its curated sector

Works in this year’s Focus section try to find an artistic answer to the question: ‘What is to be done?’

78th Whitney Biennial expands definition of American art

Their largest edition yet spans the globe looking at what makes American art

Confronting the landscape: Doug Aitken’s Mirage in the California desert

The artist has created a mirrored ranch-style ‘house’ for the exhibition Desert X

Lawnews

‘Spider-man’ and accomplices sentenced in Paris museum theft

Three defendants given six- to eight-year prison sentences, hefty fines and ordered to pay the city €104m

A week without immigrant art: college museum responds to Trump’s travel ban

Over the Presidents’ Day break, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Massachusetts will remove or obscure work by artists, or donated by collectors, who are immigrants

We the People: Nari Ward to re-create monumental work in New York

Visitors can donate their own shoelaces during the live installation this month at the New-York Historical Society

Artist’s portrait of elephant killed by poachers brings attention to the cost of the ivory trade

Wendy Maruyama’s wildLIFE Project continues its US tour to San Francisco this month

How US museums are celebrating Black History Month, coast to coast

A small selection of some of the many events and exhibitions planned for February

Time’s up for Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum’s loan agreement with Carmen Cervera

More than 400 works from the baroness’s collection may be removed from the Madrid museum, but the Spanish culture minister hopes to reach a deal this week

Caillebotte’s home near Paris to reopen in June after 20-year restoration

The French artist’s residence is one of the most beautiful 19th-century homes still within its original grounds

Picasso’s final home in France sold to financier

The property has been renovated, but the artist’s studio maintains his mark

Korean government apologises for culture blacklist

Around 10,000 cultural figures thought to be critical of country’s president deprived of government support

'My America': Whitney Museum of American art explores identity on inauguration day

Come along on a tour of the exhibition Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection