In accordance with a directive from president Trump, an exhibit detailing the lives and historical contexts of nine people enslaved by George Washington was dismantled

The Brooklyn-based artist Kameron Neal has received the 2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition for a video work created using NYPD surveillance footage from the 1960s and 70s

The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art has listed its Napa Valley property for sale for $10.9m

Despite a promised $200m deal with Saudi Arabia, the largest performing arts organisation in the US is taking drastic measures to cover its costs

In protest of federal immigration enforcement officers’ violent campaign in the city, hundreds of local business and organisations will shutter on 23 January

The robbery of the Doesburg Silver Museum is the latest in a spate of precious metal heists in the Netherlands

The 2026 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize honours the famous Addis Ababa building’s decade-long, $57m renovation

Scribblings analysed using state-of the art technology have brought new insight into the daily life and emotions of people who lived in the ancient city

Many cultural leaders welcome the move, while the UK National Audit Office reports that the culture department is consistently underspending

Tallant will also direct visual art at the Southbank Centre

For eight years Hill has led the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, which jointly won Art Fund Museum of the Year and hosted the Turner Prize under his tenure

US National Archives documents from the 18th and 19th centuries will tour museums from Kansas City to Seattle

The museum is also exploring the possibility of building affordable housing on its campus

Discoveries by metal detectorists account for 94% of recorded finds in 2024

More than three quarters of eligible employees voted in favour of forming a union with the United Auto Workers, which will represent hundreds of employees

The latest action piles more pressure the museum’s director, Laurence des Cars

A reporter for The Art Newspaper has been on the scene with the Heritage Crime Task Force (HCTF), tracking, identifying and repatriating a wide variety of art and antiquities lost to crime and conflict

The work is being sold from the collection of the Dukes of Bedford to help fund the refurbishment of Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire

Joseph Atsus was sentenced to 48 months in prison for his role in a string of robberies at museums in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and North Dakota

For the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco’s nomadic debut, the artists Lily Kwong and Tara Donovan have devised projects using nature and light on the grounds of an unusual downtown skyscraper

Works by Ben Nicholson, Vanessa Bell and Bill Brandt were also among works given to the nation in 2024-25 to settle £39.3m worth of tax

The artist says he is concerned about the “physical and environmental risks” posed by sending the work to the British Museum

The location, although not yet official, would legally require the project to undergo a rigorous review process and receive congressional approval

The site, which will feature work by artists such as Alberto Giacometti and Henry Moore, is expected to open in the autumn—though planning permission is yet to be confirmed

The museum will offer free admission during its opening weekend festivities

The museum said the change of labels and portraits is in preparation for an overhaul of its popular permanent gallery “America’s Presidents”

The Jewish Australian artist Nina Sanadze plans to turn the petals into “something that lasts for centuries and keeps the memory”

The closure last year of the Cape Town museum has “left people angry and deeply suspicious”

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From the opening of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, New York, The Art Newspaper's editors look ahead to next year's biggest stories