Plus, the artist Hassan Hajjaj on a Dr Alimantado album cover

Poorly paid and with few employment benefits, freelance museum educators are more likely to be people of colour compared with full-time staff

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

After a $450m expansion and radical rehang, has the 20th century’s emblematic museum found a place in the 21st?

Signatories have asked New York's Swiss Institute to address “troubling claims” about an artist included in current group show

As it turns 50, the museum wrestles with concerns that it has lost its community focus

As institutions pursue multimillion-dollar expansions, workers feel the squeeze and try to organise

Partner organisations will be “indigenised” by presenting a certain number of works by First Nations artists per year and build connections with local communities

Husband of deceased leader argues in court filings that chairman strong-armed his way into the post

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

The mayor’s plan to curtail the powers of the leading arts funder in the US capital could reduce its vital independence

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

Artist-run organisation For Freedoms’ country-wide initiative is a rallying point—even in right-leaning states

Wagency, launched by the group Working Artists and the Greater Economy, has similar goals and methods to a labour union

With a grant from the Art for Justice Fund, Xaviera Simmons draws inspiration from Jacob Lawrence’s Migrations series

The Madison Square Park Conservancy will organise the installation for the US pavilion

An op-ed criticising the exhibition for its dismissal of the movie's racist overtones has prompted some reflection

The artist has compiled an exhaustive analysis of the political affiliations of trustees

The artist, who is of Tlingit and Unangax descent, confronts the traumatic past in deeply affecting ways but does not wallow in it

The artist wanted his home to become a museum but his 2016 will is being challenged

As the #MeToo movement grows, US museums find themselves embroiled in ethical dilemmas

Symposium on the subject to open at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts

The legal tussle escalated recently with a controversial Barbie doll modelled on the Mexican artist and feminist icon’s image

From Adrian Piper at MoMA to Radican Women in Brooklyn

The institution initially planned to keep Nicholas Nixon's show open after allegations sparked calls for removal

The painting, taken from the Manhattan home of an elderly couple, had been stashed in a Maryland attic

Activist curators and directors can make truly democratic spaces, but they need brave boards to support them

Protests included impromptu memorials to the children and adults killed in recent shootings

The organisation’s “intolerant, divisive vision perverts” the work’s democratic nature

Can art represent the culture of marginalised groups without exploiting them? Jillian Steinhauer investigates