Toledo Museum of Art uses cryptocurrency to acquire digital art piece
The museum used USD Coin to buy an NFT in a new series by the artist collective Yatreda ያጥሬዳ
New-York Historical Society changes its name and reveals plans for new $175m wing
The museum's new wing dedicated to American democracy will open in 2026, just in time for the US’s semiquincentennial
Leonora Carrington’s Mexico City home will no longer become a public museum
The house will be a research centre instead, allegedly due to a labour struggle at the university that owns it
Fate of Frank Lloyd Wright’s only skyscraper remains uncertain amid duelling lawsuits
Oklahoma’s Price Tower is caught in a tug-of-war between its current crypto-enthusiast owners, Wright’s conservancy and a company that restores historic buildings
Smithsonian receives $40m from the Lilly Endowment
The money will be used for programming related to the semiquincentennial of the US in 2026
William Kentridge argues with himself in streaming series
The artist’s nine-episode series "Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot" celebrates creative optimism during the Covid-19 lockdowns
Mellon Foundation launches $25m fund to support culture along the US-Mexico border
The inaugural Frontera Culture Fund will contribute to 32 arts and community organisations
‘The new idea is like falling in love’: Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg on the creative process
After 20 years of working together, the duo talk about their influences, themes and characters, music and the fickleness of art-making
MFA Boston gets $25m gift to renovate galleries and add staff
The Wyss Foundation’s donation will create more than 5,000 sq. ft of extra space for the museum’s 20th-century art collection
Maqdala shield to be repatriated to Ethiopia
Withdrawn from auction in February, the shield will make a stop at the Toledo Museum of Art before going on public display at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa
New York City mayor’s aides allegedly pressured Brooklyn Museum to host Chinese history exhibition
A recent investigation found that Eric Adams’s office was involved in the scheme to mount a show about Sun Yat-sen with just one month’s notice
Art festival in Norway embraces the sounds of the Arctic Circle
At the Lofoten International Art Festival, music and sound art complement a majestic landscape of fjords and mountains
In the first major US survey of Tamara de Lempicka’s work, de Young Museum reveals the many sides of the painter
The San Francisco institution reveals personal details about the artist famed for her female portraits
A new online museum is sharing the histories of repatriated objects
The digital Museum of Looted Antiquities aspires to be an encyclopaedic repository on returned cultural artefacts—and to expose smuggling networks
New York City celebrates David Wojnarowicz’s 70th birthday
Events across Manhattan will pay tribute to the late artist through readings, film screenings, music and a candlelit procession
The biggest threats to heritage sites worldwide? War, urbanisation, tourism, climate change and lack of funding
According to World Monuments Fund, the top issue varies widely depending on geography
Must-see shows in New York this Autumn
The season’s standout exhibitions, from Soho to the Bronx
Meticulous handiwork wins the day at New York's Art on Paper fair
The fair champions art made on and with paper, in every form and style
Marcel Breuer’s summer house added to US National Register of Historic Places
What is happening with Breuer’s Cape Cod home?
More than $4m awarded to US curators to support exhibitions and climate initiatives
How much power do a museum’s curators really have?
Frank Lloyd Wright’s only skyscraper will go up for auction in October
Is Oklahoma’s historic Price Tower doomed?
Roving children’s photography workshops in Turkey seek to create community through art
At Fotohane Darkroom, Turkish kids join young Syrian refugees to document their lives
Warhol Foundation to sell the artist’s works on eBay to benefit its grantees
The initiative, called the Philanthropy Factory, hopes to raise an additional $1.5m for 74 US arts organisations
Second lawsuit to halt development of mega-spa on Toronto Modernist landscape is dismissed
The fate of the landmarked Ontario Science Centre also hangs in the balance of the redevelopment dispute over Ontario Place
Marcel Breuer’s Modernist cottage on Cape Cod sold to local trust, paving way for restoration
The Cape Cod Modern House Trust intends to use the architect's summer home to host residencies for artists, architects and scholars
Frankenthaler Foundation announces $3.3m in climate grants to 69 art organisations
The money will be used to install solar panels, updating lighting and create carbon-neutrality plans
Another Schiele work returned to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum
The 1918 drawing had been in the possession of another Austrian Jewish family, which recently became suspicious of the work's provenance and contacted Grünbaum’s heirs directly in order to “do the right thing”
Italian art critic Eugenio Viola to curate 2025 Bienal de Arte Paiz
The largest contemporary art exhibition in Central America returns to Guatemala with a performance-art specialist at its helm
New public art projects to coincide with Democratic National Convention
Next Stop: Chicago will focus on infrastructure inequality after Covid
National Trust for Historic Preservation grants $3m to Black heritage sites across the US
Almost half of the funding will go towards preserving Modernist buildings designed by Black architects