A sculpture by Simone Leigh now stands at the former site of a Robert E. Lee monument in New Orleans; Zadie Smith examines Toni Morrison's singular short story; and more.

The New York Times profiles Françoise Gilot at age 100; Cynthia Chavez Lamar has been named director of the National Museum of the American Indian; and more.

High above Sydney Harbour, three female artists perform on a 2.5 ton block of melting ice in Thaw; A Faith Ringgold work moves from Riker's Island to the Brooklyn Museum;...

Trailblazing feminist writer, critic, professor, and activist bell hooks has died at age 69; A new card game from Marina Abramović; Sojin Oh's otherworldly nail art; and more.

New details about Simone Leigh’s U.S. pavilion exhibition at next year’s Venice Biennale have been released; A profile on painter Joan Semmel at age 89; and more

The New York Times interviews Jaune Quick-to-See Smith; Dindga McCannon, Simone Leigh, Ja'Tovia Gary, and Beatriz González shine at Art Basel Miami; and more.

Historian Tiya Miles has won the 2021 National Book Award in nonfiction; Frida Kahlo and Agnes Martin set auction records at Sotheby's this week; and more.

Anonymous Was a Woman announces its largest cohort of grantees to date; Inuit artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory has won the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s largest contemporary art prize; and more.

The first U.S. solo exhibition of São Paulo-based artist Sonia Gomes opens in Los Angeles; The Washington Post reviews Alma Thomas: Everything is Beautiful; and more.

Lee Laa Ray Guillory has won the second Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists; Four pastels from a series by Rosalba Carriera are reunited; and more.