Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Walker has led the New York-based Ford Foundation for the past 11 years

Opening at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, next year, The Stars We Do Not See will include highlights that are "globally recognised as undisputed masterpieces"

A tour of the National Gallery’s landmark exhibition with our Van Gogh expert Martin Bailey, plus a new book zoning in on the Impressionists’ “Terrible Year” and a highlight from Museum Folkwang’s hair-themed show

The monumental works highlight both the might and the fragility of US government institutions

In addition to spending 60 days in prison, Joanna Smith will have to serve 150 hours of community service, ten of which she must spend cleaning graffiti

Drawn from a 300-work sub-collection gathered by John Szarkowski in the 1990s, the gift includes images by 96 photographers—among them Dorothea Lange, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston

Plus, the UK’s first permanent public sculpture by a Black female artist goes to Warwick University, and National Gallery of Art lands a collection of 20 shadow boxes by Joseph Cornell

Plus, the top takeaways from the new Art Basel/UBS report and a weaving by Anni Albers

A climate activist with the group Declare Emergency has been taken into custody over a paint-smearing incident at the museum last year

Joanna Smith faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine

The 15 works, donated by two collecting couples, will form the core of an exhibition in autumn 2024

A collaborative sculpture by Nicholas Galanin and Merritt Johnson was removed from an exhibition at the Washington, DC museum

An exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, DC, examines five decades of the pioneering photographer’s portraits

Docents—voluntary educators who are frequently white, of retirement age and middle class—embody the tensions between the status quo and change in US museums

The Smithsonian Institution and National Gallery of Art are making plans for continuing operations amid a government shutdown that appears increasingly likely

Celeste Tooth, a student and artist, was escorted off the museum premises following a disagreement with a guard over their backpack

The Washington, DC museum will move “Ginevra de' Benci” to a different gallery through early 2024

The two protesters have have been indicted by federal prosecutors on charges of conspiracy

A man and a woman have daubed red and black paint on the display case containing 'Little Dancer'

The museum narrowly beat the Met Fifth Avenue in New York into second place in 2022

The New York institution, usually the most popular art museum in the US, was overtaken in 2022 by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC

Smith’s exhibition will include works by around 50 living Native artists, including several that have recently been acquired by the NGA

Findings about the provenance of two Old Master drawings in the museum’s collection may test the pro-restitution stance recently adopted at US national institutions

The untitled 1961 painting, by Chippewa artist George Morrison, is the first by a Native American member of the New York School movement in the NGA’s collection

The painter’s masterpieces show that his influences stretched beyond Venice and at times touch on the miraculous.

The drawing, Grotesque Head of an Old Woman (1489-90), was last displayed at the museum in 2017 and is now available for study

Plus, the US National Gallery of Art’s women artists fund and one of the last paintings of Paula Modersohn-Becker

The programme's launch follows the recent acquisition of a painting by 16th-century Mannerist Lavinia Fontana and a polychrome statue by 17th-century sculptor Luisa Roldán

The National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum marked the return of the sculptures with a ceremony in Washington, DC