Ready to see some art? The top exhibitions of the summer
Plus, the artist Hassan Hajjaj on a Dr Alimantado album cover
A crisis in community reach: MoMA's arts educators on the consequences of their contract cuts
Poorly paid and with few employment benefits, freelance museum educators are more likely to be people of colour compared with full-time staff
Artist pleads guilty to assault and harassment charges in domestic violence case
As part of plea agreement, Tobias Madison must attend a 26-week batterers’ programme and attend weekly therapy sessions to have his criminal record cleared in a year’s time
The Big Review: the new MoMA
After a $450m expansion and radical rehang, has the 20th century’s emblematic museum found a place in the 21st?
Letter calls attention to domestic assault allegations against Swiss artist
Signatories have asked New York's Swiss Institute to address “troubling claims” about an artist included in current group show
Whose museum is it anyway? The story of El Museo del Barrio has always been about representation
As it turns 50, the museum wrestles with concerns that it has lost its community focus
Art world’s wage inequality sparks waves of protests
As institutions pursue multimillion-dollar expansions, workers feel the squeeze and try to organise
A global network for Indigenous performers launches in New York
Partner organisations will be “indigenised” by presenting a certain number of works by First Nations artists per year and build connections with local communities
Widower takes aim at chairman of Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Husband of deceased leader argues in court filings that chairman strong-armed his way into the post
You have to renovate to accumulate: three South Florida museums expand in very different ways
The Norton Museum of Art, the Boca Raton Museum of Art and the Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College show that museum expansions can take different sizes and forms
Battle brews over Washington’s arts commission
The mayor’s plan to curtail the powers of the leading arts funder in the US capital could reduce its vital independence
Washington, DC grant-making commission issues morality clause—then quickly backtracks
Works made with the funding should not be “lewd, lascivious, vulgar, overtly political, excessively violent, constitutes sexual harassment, or is, in any other way, illegal,” according to the clause
Artists join forces in bid to swing US midterm elections
Artist-run organisation For Freedoms’ country-wide initiative is a rallying point—even in right-leaning states
Digital platform aims to help artists get fair pay
Wagency, launched by the group Working Artists and the Greater Economy, has similar goals and methods to a labour union
Mining the lessons of African American history
With a grant from the Art for Justice Fund, Xaviera Simmons draws inspiration from Jacob Lawrence’s Migrations series
Martin Puryear to represent US at Venice Biennale
The Madison Square Park Conservancy will organise the installation for the US pavilion
Artist withdraws work from gallery group show inspired by Peter Sellers brownface film
An op-ed criticising the exhibition for its dismissal of the movie's racist overtones has prompted some reflection
Andrea Fraser aims to hold US museum boards to account
The artist has compiled an exhaustive analysis of the political affiliations of trustees
Nicholas Galanin remixes Native American identity at Phoenix’s Heard Museum
The artist, who is of Tlingit and Unangax descent, confronts the traumatic past in deeply affecting ways but does not wallow in it
Will Robert Indiana’s legacy get stuck in a legal battle?
The artist wanted his home to become a museum but his 2016 will is being challenged
Museums too: what should institutions do when artists are accused of abuse?
As the #MeToo movement grows, US museums find themselves embroiled in ethical dilemmas
How do you conserve time-based media? Museums invest in research to keep up with new technologies
Symposium on the subject to open at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts
Fight over Frida Kahlo trademark takes a new turn as corporation countersues her family
The legal tussle escalated recently with a controversial Barbie doll modelled on the Mexican artist and feminist icon’s image
The best shows in town during Frieze New York
From Adrian Piper at MoMA to Radican Women in Brooklyn
Photographer accused of sexual harassment closes show at ICA Boston
The institution initially planned to keep Nicholas Nixon's show open after allegations sparked calls for removal
FBI recovers Chagall work stolen nearly 30 years ago
The painting, taken from the Manhattan home of an elderly couple, had been stashed in a Maryland attic
Museums have a duty to be political
Activist curators and directors can make truly democratic spaces, but they need brave boards to support them
US students and activists take creative action against gun violence
Protests included impromptu memorials to the children and adults killed in recent shootings
'Disgusted' Anish Kapoor condemns NRA’s use of his Chicago ‘Bean’ sculpture in advert
The organisation’s “intolerant, divisive vision perverts” the work’s democratic nature
The ethics of appropriation
Can art represent the culture of marginalised groups without exploiting them? Jillian Steinhauer investigates