Bristol city council hopes to raise the money in just seven days

The artist had intended to recontextualise a statue of king Leopold II, who oversaw a brutal regime in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Destino Valparaíso, an ambitious new museum funded by a local businessman and housed in a historic former school, seeks to tell the stories of the many diverse groups who helped shape the scenic coastal city

Figures behind the Fine Art Group and Arte Collectum explain why now is the right time to launch a fund

Studiolo and Classic Art London seek to give fresh energy to a traditionally important time in the UK calendar

Tax-friendly freeports and free trade zones are gaining in popularity with those wishing to avoid tariffs and new EU regulations

The fair will celebrate its 20th anniversary in cities including Seoul and Aspen

The storage and logistics company is seeking municipal approval to build a 240,000 sq. ft facility on a lot in Bushwick currently used for parking

National Archaeological Museum of Naples accused of “marketing with unpaid photos”

One of the most famous sites in Barcelona has been given a €3.5m makeover

The female figurine is thought to be a depiction of the god of fertility, and will be displayed at the Polish Arms Museum

The name of the decorator may yet emerge from a huge jigsaw of fragments of found in Southwark, just south of the Thames

A retrospective at the International Center of Photography in New York chronicles more than 40 years of the artist’s work

The Mystic Seaport Museum's new show uses blubber hooks, whale foetuses, scrimshaw and a giant mural to recount how the whale oil industry fueled capitalism's expansion

Painters have learnt by copying works in the museum for centuries. Now a group of high-profile contemporary artists have been invited to create entirely new works

The 15th-century prayer book, commissioned by the Duc de Berry, is on display at the Condé Museum

The Brazilian documentarian was internationally known for his panoramic photographs of humanity surviving on the edge and for his work as a campaigning environmentalist

BBC executive, who has died aged 78, profiled artists in his Arena and Imagine series

The executive director of Zeitz Mocaa, Cape Town, had been due to announce her plans as curator of the international exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale

The Argentinian pontiff was a powerful progressive voice in world politics, the first Jesuit priest to be spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics and the first from the Americas or the southern hemisphere to hold the office

David Attenborough’s new documentary “Ocean” and the activist group Ocean Rebellion are harnessing imagery in the fight against marine destruction

“With the return of an emboldened Trump administration, our communities are facing a sustained campaign of hostility and a chilling rollback of civil rights”

Engaging with the difficult histories behind objects has deepened, not dampened, my experiences at cultural institutions—and the fact it is different for everyone is a good thing

A 1988 amendment to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, secured by Howard Berman, could stop art imports being hit by Trump's tariff hike

Our round-up of the latest art publications

All you ever wanted to know about the subject, from a pivotal novel to a book on how Postmodernism “shapes all aspects of contemporary life”—selected by The Cosmic House director Eszter Steierhoffer

The critic J. Hoberman’s take on Manhattan counterculture charts the rise of artists such as Andy Warhol and Yoko Ono

Scholars have speculated for centuries about the meaning behind the 15th-century codex and its peculiar illustrations

"Point Blank" exhibition features 97 paintings created between 2021 and 2022

The walking trail celebrates the 250th anniversary of the artists birth—although the exact date of his birthday remains something of a mystery

The painting goes to the block ahead of Oasis's much anticipated reunion tour later this summer—perfect timing, some might say

Could the 100-item lot be enough to distract the controversial billionaire from his current spat with President Donald Trump?

The often violent history of public statues and museum collections—including that of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum—is told in this biographical book that energises and exasperates in equal measure.

A survey tracing the city’s greatest ornaments from antiquity to the present day originated as a series of lectures

The essential guide now includes colour photographs of 95 works

The new study of the Da Vinci brand uses historical context to debunk the artist’s cult status and present him as a man of his time

The media artist Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) increasingly sees his interactive video sculptures—one of which goes on show this month at the SXSW London festival and another at The Shed in New York—and social media posts as public art

Anadol will reimagine the Argentine megastar’s famous 2009 header as a data sculpture which will be sold at Christie’s

Berlin-based Michael Najjar has been working with scientists in Greenland to tell stories with images designed to replace familiar memes of environmental journalism

The California institution is one of the top five museums for social media growth in the world in the past year. We spoke to the museum's director of digital and social content strategy