American art news

Global wellbeing organisation Therme Group US and Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser have signed a deal to work together toward identifying a site for a ... More

​ Wheeler Kearns Architects have transformed a decommissioned cheese factory in the US city of Bentonville, Arkansas, into a multidisciplinary space for visual, performing and ... More

The Penn Museum in Philadelphia has reopened with 10,000sq ft (3,048sq m) of newly imagined space, including a new main entrance and galleries for African ... More

Newly unveiled designs Brooks + Scarpa and KMF Architects for a $20m (€18m, £16m), 40,000sq ft (3,700sq m) expansion of Florida's Mennello Museum of American ... More

A Google Lens integration between the de Young museum in San Francisco and the Google Arts & Culture team has gone live, providing an alternative ... More

A new survey published by The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and Ithaka ... More

Transdisciplinary designer and musician Kanye West has donated US$10m (€8.7m, £7.7m) to help fund the still unfinished Roden Crater – an atmospheric complex situated within ... More

American artist James Turrell has recently unveiled Skyspace: Lech – the latest iteration of his Skyspace series, which was first developed in the 1970s. Located ... More

American architectural practice Cooper Robertson have made a swathe of in-house promotions, including the appointment of a new director of architecture. The architects, noted for ... More

American artist Jeff Koons has teamed up Snapchat to create virtual art installations using augmented reality. The artist – famously known for reimagining everyday objects ... More

Architect Frank Gehry has been commissioned to develop the design for a model railway museum in Massachusetts, which will feature miniature work from a host ... More

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has officially kickstarted “a new phase of transformation and renewal”, with construction underway on an important phase of architect Frank ... More

The James Beard Foundation has released the list of nominees who may taste glory at its 2017 Restaurant Design Awards on 25 April. The organisation ... More

Washington DC’s Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) has named Tacoma Art Museum’s (TAM) Stephanie Stebich as its new director. Stebich will take up leadership of ... More

Danish studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects have revealed the first design details of their collaboration with American artist James Turrell on a major expansion of ... More

The Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) announced the winners of its annual Thea awards at the IAAPA Expo in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday, with Shanghai Disney ... More

The James Beard Foundation (JBF) has announced that the call for entries for its 2017 Restaurant Design Awards is officially open. Architects, interior designers and ... More

The long-awaited opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. will take place this Saturday (24 September), with US ... More

A new museum and memorial in Montgomery, Alabama has been designed by MASS Design Group and the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) to confront America’s history ... More

Architect David Adjaye has told CLAD that the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington is “one of the defining projects” of ... More

The winners of the James Beard Foundation’s Outstanding Restaurant Design Awards were announced at a ceremony on Monday evening (2 May) in Chicago. Design studios ... More

An in-depth study by a group of US art museums has demonstrated the lasting impact of art programmes aimed at teenagers. The findings showed that ... More

The James Beard Foundation has released the list of nominees who may taste glory at its 2016 Restaurant Design Awards in May. The organisation – ... More

New York’s iconic Met Breuer building re-opens today (18 March) following a period of renovation to recreate Hungarian architect Marcel Breuer’s original vision for the ... More

The architects behind the US$20m (€17.7m, £13.8m) renovation of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, have claimed their work has launched “a ... More