As debate over controversial monuments rages on, new project will be part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival culture programme linked to the Commonwealth Games

Controversial political figure was in post for eight years from 2012

More than 20 artists have withdrawn from British Art Show 9 in support of "political freedom, and artistic expression in cultural institutions and universities across the UK"

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries wants to redress "huge historic imbalance" in regional investment but mayor Sadiq Khan says it is "a devastating blow" to the creative sector

Alistair Hudson, head of the Whitworth, leaves over text in Forensic Architecture's show last year

Spokeswoman for the oil company says it is looking at new ways to best use its resources in order to become net-zero by 2050

Project shines a light on the cultural exchange between Algeria, France and Italy during the 1960s

Former electric substation converted into contemporary art hub by Pudil Family Foundation

BP or not BP demonstrated against the museum's partnership with the oil giant over the weekend

Several of her works are held in the British Museum collection and a major public work stands outside Paris's Institut du monde arabe

London gallery says it never meant to "present an insensitive or dismissive attitude" to mental health issues

Organisers and galleries are banking on “pent-up desire” to make this year’s edition a success

Tributes paid to ‘extraordinary artist’ and her dazzling ‘hard-edge’ works

On the occasion of the Saudi outdoor art exhibition's opening, four artists—Zeinab Alhashemi, Dana Awartani, Shezad Dawood and Stephanie Deumer—discuss their projects in the desert

The open air exhibition in the ancient heritage region AlUla spearheads the Middle Eastern nation's attempt at rapid cultural transformation in line with government's 2030 goals

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Ceremony signing a memorandum of understanding took place at the Diriyah Biennale in Riyadh

Majid Boustany founded the Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation in Monaco

After four people who toppled Edward Colston statue are acquitted, the debate over problematic public art deepens

Chicago activist’s structure will incorporate a church bell and oculus

The exhibition will include “gender non-conforming artists who are challenging the figure of man as centre of the universe”

Donors include Saudi Arabia, which gave $30m, and private bodies

Collectors can write their own message about China’s regime onto the blockchain

Descendants planned to sell a 1958 Picasso ceramic at an in-real-life auction, mint the piece as an NFT and also release an accompanying song with John Legend

Birds of a Feather, held in collaboration with the Ghanaian company Artemartis, will run next month at the auction house's Berkeley Square headquarters in London

The Da Vinci Face platform uses using artificial intelligence and sophisticated algorithms to transform you into an Old Master

The mass restitution is expected to be endorsed by the French Senate on 15 February

The bursaries support Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students on postgraduate courses in the arts at Goldsmiths

The Mayfair-based dealer has taken the space on Grosvenor Street until the end of May, but might extend

The auction house will help the Parisian institution research the history of items purchased between 1933 and 1945, which "may lead to restitutions"