MoMA, the Whitney, the Morgan, the American Folk Art Museum, the New Museum, the Guggenheim and the Brooklyn Museum announce plans to welcome the public, joining the Met and the New-York Historical Society

New exhibition seeks to “fill in the blanks that are still present in museums and art history books”

From Kehinde Wiley’s reimagining of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Brooklyn Museum to Luhring Augustine and Sam Fogg’s collaborative show on Gothic art

From Chloë Bass’s show at The Studio Museum in Harlem to Yasiin Bey’s multimedia exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum

District attorney says the initiative, which applies to minor nonviolent misdemeanors, promotes "human dignity"

The French artist, who made his name with large-scale public installations, is opening his biggest US exhibition to date

Screenings of the performance art film will run at institutions across the US and Europe throughout the summer, closing at The Chinati Foundation in October

Celebrate Pride Month with commemorations of Stonewall's 50th anniversary

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Damien Hirst's placemat portraits to Nari Ward's recycled shoelace installation

Both works will first be shown at Château de Malmaison, former residence of Emperor of the French before travelling to the Brooklyn Museum

From Winogrand's little-known colour photographs to Miró's mammoth canvas

From Lucio Fontana's punctured canvases to an intimate look at Frida Kahlo's personal objects

From Frida Kahlo’s personal items at the Brooklyn Museum to the work of Jamaica-born artist Nari Ward at the New Museum, there’s plenty to see off-pier

Family elders give blessing to new exhibition of Yorùbá masquerade costume, stolen from Nigerian shrine room 70 years ago

Shows at the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston explore the Mexican artist’s love of fashion and “arte popular”

Planning permission for the installation extended until 2020

The museum professional has called for women to be treated with "respect and dignity"

The power of Black artists resonates at the Brooklyn Museum, while Medieval monsters lurk at the Morgan Library

From Adrian Piper at MoMA to Radican Women in Brooklyn

The museum has not yet responded to criticism about the “dismal rates of representation” of people of colour among its senior staff

Celebrate Women’s History Month through art, from feminism solving an ancient riddle in Brooklyn to Zoe Leonard's retrospective at the Whitney

Around one-fifth of the objects in the Brooklyn Museum's show were not included in previous iterations

From Basquiat's $110m skull in Brooklyn to Viennese luxe in uptown Manhattan

Japanese billionaire has sent his prized 1982 skull painting on “world tour” after buying work at Sotheby’s last year

From Munch’s marvelous misery to the changing face of Mecca

The Brooklyn Museum will be the final venue for the internationally touring retrospective, launched in 2013