Gabriella Angeleti

Gabriella Angeleti is the former assistant Museums & Heritage editor of The Art Newspaper, based in New York

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Organisers of billboard art project allege their show in Texas on prison reform was censored

Companies that manage advertising spaces in Houston reportedly called off the project with little warning or explanation

Artists withdraw work from US National Gallery in protest of ‘government funding of Israel’s military assault’ in Gaza

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

A new artist-designed ‘chapel’ to grace Kansas City

The artist Summer Wheat will create a space for visitors to “explore their inner world” on the Kansas City Museum campus

The Indigenous artist and activist Glicéria Tupinambá will represent Brazil at 2024 Venice Biennale

The Brazilian pavilion will be renamed the “Hãhãwpuá Pavilion” for Tupinambá’s presentation, which is being co-curated by three Brazilian Indigenous artists

Ida Applebroog, who made wide-ranging work with a feminist edge, has died, aged 93

The American artist was long associated with the feminist art movement but resented the label, preferring to form her own critical iconography

Pandemic-fueled shift from in-person to virtual art activities may be permanent, two US surveys suggest

Two surveys supported by the National Endowment for the Arts show that in-person art activities remain below pre-Covid levels, while many Americans continue to experience culture virtually

Chimeric creature descends on the Whitney Museum in new augmented reality commission

Nancy Baker Cahill’s augmented-reality work explores the climate crisis and interdependence between humans and nature

The Guerrilla Girls take on an Arkansas music festival

The activist art collective is bringing an installation of its work and a series of workshops to the Format festival in Bentonville

A biennial in Oregon explores the role of art in political and social critique

Converge 45 returns to Portland with more than 50 projects at 15 venues across the city

Bienal de São Paulo restricts access to Ibrahim Mahama installation after child falls and breaks his arm while climbing on it

The installation features a reclaimed Ghanaian railroad track that visitors were previously encouraged to interact with

The 2023 Bienal de São Paulo lodges kinetic critiques of racism and environmental degradation

Titled “Choreographies of the Impossible”, the 35th edition of the world’s second-oldest biennial doesn’t dance around charged topics, it dances about them

American museum educators are trying a more playful approach

Two New York institutions are overhauling their education facilities, while others test a digital-first style of art pedagogy

Bienal de São Paulo opens as Brazilian cultural scene gets Lula rejuvenation

Arts funding in Brazil is being restored under President Lula, with new projects including a transitory “museum” exploring the history of Brazil’s African diaspora

Female Land artists come out of the shadows at Dallas's Nasher Sculpture Center

The exhibition will shed new light on lesser-known, often ephemeral, works by women

Tibetan Buddhist shrine with more than 200 artefacts donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art

The shrine comes from Alice S. Kandell, who amassed one of the most significant private collections of Tibetan Buddhist art in North America

Groups in Guatemala demand return of Maya throne sent to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

Guatemalan law prohibits the export of such artefacts for exhibition, local culture organisations say

Charleston reckons with its role in the international slave trade through its museums

The historic Charleston Museum and the forthcoming International African American Museum will explore the city's painful past

Genesis of Phil Collins’s collection of Alamo artefacts questioned ahead of museum opening

A new public exhibition hall is mired in controversy over the provenance of the musician’s collection of relics related to the Alamo in Texas

Acquisitions round-up: two London museums jointly purchase a masterpiece of the Aesthetic movement

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

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Arts figures draw a line under Bolsonaro as Lula is sworn in as Brazil's new president

Leftist leader has appointed a culture minister but faces challenges from fundamentalism to funding

Museums and heritage in 2022: industrial unrest, climate protests and damage to historic artefacts in Ukraine

New and refurbished museums open in Antwerp, Los Angeles and Sydney as Italian archaeologists make the "discovery of a generation" in a hilltop town in Tuscany

Long-awaited International African American Museum delays January opening

The museum says humidity and temperature control issues must be addressed before it can open to the public

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Photographer and historian Deborah Willis receives $200,000 prize from Crystal Bridges Museum

Willis is a photographer, author and curator whose work illuminates cultural histories of Blackness

Philip Guston’s daughter donates 220 of his works and $10m to the Metropolitan Museum

Some of the works from the collection, which will go on view next year, are featured in the controversial traveling retrospective devoted to Guston

Ancient Indigenous ‘Stonehenge’ of Ohio to be nominated for Unesco status after ousting of golf club

The Octagon Earthworks are being teed up for nomination for Unesco World Heritage status

Is the Las Vegas art scene’s streak of bad luck finally over?

After decades of failed museum projects and short-lived gallery outposts, dealers are testing pop-up and retail models in the entertainment capital of the world

Brazilian president-elect Lula appoints Bahian singer Margareth Menezes as culture minister

The singer Gilberto Gil and the politician Juca Ferreira held the role during Lula’s previous presidency

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Brazilian president-elect Lula pledged to reboot the country's culture ministry

As Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva prepares to return to office as Brazil’s president, the country’s arts sector eagerly awaits the reinvigoration of the ministry of culture, which Jair Bolsonaro dissolved