The constitutional law scholar Heather K. Gerken will oversee the Ford Foundation, a $16bn philanthropic entity with an eye towards social justice

Roland Rudd made the comments in relation to the new endowment fund Tate announced last week

The two artefacts are being restituted as part of the museum's closure of its Benin gallery, which had been donated by the billionaire collector Robert Lehman

The government has this year cut back a funding lifeline for listed churches, putting historic buildings and the art they house at risk

The painting, once owned by Britain’s first prime minister, Robert Walpole, was sold during Christie's £55m Old Master sale in London tonight, alongside works by Constable, Willem Key and Gerrit Dou

Griffin reportedly plans to lend his copies of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation to a US institution

James White, a prominent member in the vast network, pleaded guilty to forgery and trafficking

Plus, a tense landscape by Max Beckmann and nudes by Philip Pearlstein

The only four-year college of its kind is on Trump's chopping block, along with countless other Indigenous causes

The Manchester Museum is running a public consultation about the future of Asru, a woman who lived in Thebes, southern Egypt

Notices asking visitors to report “any signs or other information that are negative about either past or living Americans” prompted outrage and pushback

The David Geffen Galleries, which officially opens next April, recently hosted a preview event and performances by Kamasi Washington and an ensemble of 100 jazz musicians

An exhibition of Korean art this summer at Manarat Al Saadiyat will be followed by a show of Emirati art in Seoul this winter

The Lower East Side gallery Olympia has invited 33 artists to participate in “CAKE”, an ephemeral show and fundraising feast

The Chinese artist’s work, which is inspired by Leonardo da Vinci illustrations, will be housed in a former Soviet-era exposition hall in Kyiv

The train—which is due to travel across Ukraine—features photographs Buffett took during his 19 trips to the country between 2022 and 2025

Our round-up of the latest art publications

An exclusive extract by Adam Gopnik on the Armenian American painter, taken from a collection of essays about the artist’s time in New York City

A revised edition of a 2020 book looks at the problems associated with a "white, male and middle class" cultural arena in the UK

The publication on a 17th-century shipwreck reveals transatlantic connections and the complexities of underwater archaeology

New analysis considers the artists’ common cause as champions of landscape alongside their renowned differences

The often violent history of public statues and museum collections—including that of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum—is told in this biographical book that energises and exasperates in equal measure.

Axing the Arts Council and the many other arm’s-length bodies overseen by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport makes more sense, argues Bendor Grosvenor

David Attenborough’s new documentary “Ocean” and the activist group Ocean Rebellion are harnessing imagery in the fight against marine destruction

“With the return of an emboldened Trump administration, our communities are facing a sustained campaign of hostility and a chilling rollback of civil rights”

Engaging with the difficult histories behind objects has deepened, not dampened, my experiences at cultural institutions—and the fact it is different for everyone is a good thing

The Louvre and the National in Edinburgh loaned works by the 18th-century artist

The annual fundraising bash drew a throng of famous guests, with the artist Grayson Perry and the actor Isla Fisher also among them

Apple supremo Jony Ive joins Claudia Winkleman and Martha Kearney on the museum's board

"Point Blank" exhibition features 97 paintings created between 2021 and 2022

Best known for his looming, stylised figures assembled from wood beams, Shapiro changed the language of Minimalism with a distinctly personal flair

The Brazilian documentarian was internationally known for his panoramic photographs of humanity surviving on the edge and for his work as a campaigning environmentalist

BBC executive, who has died aged 78, profiled artists in his Arena and Imagine series

The executive director of Zeitz Mocaa, Cape Town, had been due to announce her plans as curator of the international exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale

The media artist Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) increasingly sees his interactive video sculptures—one of which goes on show this month at the SXSW London festival and another at The Shed in New York—and social media posts as public art

Anadol will reimagine the Argentine megastar’s famous 2009 header as a data sculpture which will be sold at Christie’s

Berlin-based Michael Najjar has been working with scientists in Greenland to tell stories with images designed to replace familiar memes of environmental journalism

The California institution is one of the top five museums for social media growth in the world in the past year. We spoke to the museum's director of digital and social content strategy