Other recipients of the MacArthur Fellowships this year include the photographer Matt Black, the artist and film-maker Garrett Bradley and the social justice artist Tonika Lewis Johnson

The Smithsonian’s museums in Washington, DC, and New York City will remain open for now

The museum will display around 200 works from RM’s personal collection and the museum’s holdings

All but four members of the National Council on the Humanities were informed via email that their positions had been terminated

Most of Washington, DC’s top attractions will shutter by the beginning of next week unless US lawmakers reach an agreement to fund the government

As part of the acquisition, the institution has been renamed the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art

Lisa Phillips, who has led the museum through two major construction projects, will step down in April

In a letter to the biennial’s organisers, more than 20 participants wrote that Crown Family Philanthropies’ “sponsorship is incompatible with the values of our work”

The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art will sell off its treasures this autumn at Christie’s in New York

The organiser of the exhibition cancelled the event following the delivery driver’s death

Both artists will receive an unrestricted cash prize from the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation

Wynn, who died in April, owned trophy works by Lucian Freud, Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Mitchell and others

The promised gift from museum trustee John Pritzker includes pieces by Man Ray, Marcel and Suzanne Duchamp, Jean Arp and others

After overseeing four editions of Art Basel’s French fair, Delépine will take the helm at the Fondation Galeries Lafayette’s art and culture space

The fair, which spotlights art from the previous century, is showing overlooked women Modernists as well as boundary-pushing painters and sculptors

The Manhattan- and Maine-based collectors discuss some of their beloved works and the shows they are excited to see in New York this month

Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Smithsonian’s secretary, wrote in a staff letter and another addressed to the White House that the institution will continue its internal review

This year’s leading prize for US art writers also honours The Art Newspaper contributor Nicole Martinez

This season’s bounty of outdoor art includes bronze gates near City Hall, a layered sound installation in Brooklyn Bridge Park and a mural honouring graffiti history at MoMA PS1

Exhibitions honouring a Native American Modernist, a new generation of photographers and others are on the itinerary

“Raphael: Sublime Poetry” is being curated by Carmen Bambach, who organised the Met’s hugely popular Michelangelo exhibition in 2017-18

The joint statement, which does not name Donald Trump, comes as the US president seeks to remake the Kennedy Center and dictate programming at the Smithsonian

The artist Erica Kovitz used the remainders of blunts smoked by Tha Doggfather to make a series of mixed-media works

Brian Ferriso will inaugurate the expansion of the Portland Art Museum on 20 November and start his new job in Dallas on 1 December

The US president’s criticisms come as the White House begins a review of the Smithsonian’s programmes and exhibitions

In a letter to the Smithsonian leader Lonnie G. Bunch, members of Trump’s administration said they want to “ensure alignment with the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism”

Works by Cézanne, Manet, Degas, Van Gogh and others from the Pearlman Foundation are headed to the Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and New York’s Museum of Modern Art

The label had been added to a display at the National Museum of American History about checks on presidential powers in 2021 following Trump's second impeachment

Over a six-decade career, he created elegantly stylised performances and images with collaborators including Marina Abramović, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson and Lady Gaga

The Star Wars director, appearing at the famed conference for the first time, described the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art as “a temple to the people’s art”