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Khaled al-Asaad was killed “because he would not betray his deep commitment to Palmyra”, said Unesco chief

New 15-member body will focus on the capital’s statues, street names and memorials

Mixed-media montage by UK artist Endless was donated to the Florence museum

In the wake of Black Lives Matter movement, new exhibition at Lisson Gallery will feature 11 women and non-binary artists tackling issue of Britain’s colonial legacy

Petition against the move claims that management want to ‘orientate the museum to income generation’

His influential texts and exhibitions looked beyond Europe and the US to art from Latin America and Asia

Although Guston's paintings of Klansmen “remain controversial today” they are also “deeply relevant”, she says

Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable divided the critics when the sprawling exhibition launched in Venice in 2017

New arrangement, to last 15 years, means key works by Gauguin, Monet and Picasso have been saved for the nation

The Met director Max Hollein pays tribute to the late gallery owner and collector, who also promoted artists from Max Beckmann to Peter Saul

As the funding body, UK Research and Innovation, restricts additional funding, students are being asked to rethink projects

We ask artists, writers and experts on Middle Eastern art about their memories of the revolutionary movements—and what they think the lasting legacies are

Lecturers have stopped assessing students after management consultants propose mass overhaul

Petition calls on Welsh Government to increase funding for institution which holds works by Turner and Gainsborough

Archival materials relate to significant sculptures and installations around Piedmontese region in Italy

ArtULTRA provides key information on grants, residencies, studio spaces and business matters

Artistic Freedom Initiative group says the new executive order, overturning Trump's controversial rule, also allows artists to visit home “for the first time in years”

The decision to take down historic William Beckford and John Cass sculptures could go against new UK government policy

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's gift from collectors Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong “opens up new horizons on surrealist activities”, says expert

London's Science Museum and a West Midlands museum where Peaky Blinders was filmed are just some of the venues doubling up as Covid-19 vaccine hubs

The Bangtan Boys musician was recognised for donating $90,400 to the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul last September

Proposed plans have been criticised as distraction tactics from the state's "lethally failed response to the pandemic and the consequences of a disastrous Brexit"

New online platform aims to turn traditionally scholarly subject into something "easily digestible and fun to explore"

Sale of controversial 1936 painting criticised by organisation behind artist Hergé’s estate

Family of artist Carl Nesjar—who collaborated on the works with Picasso—say they have a copyright claim and should help decide where the pieces are relocated

Advertising firms in Minneapolis—where Floyd was killed by police—refused to show the work saying it was too violent, but advocacy group says it will try again

Old outbuildings on the actor's estate will be knocked down to make way for the studio—and provisions will be made for the protected bats that live there

Artists Dread Scott and Glenn Ligon among cultural figures pointing out stark contrast in how law enforcement handled the mob compared with Black Lives Matter protestors

Williamson Art Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead is also under threat of closure as part of cost-cutting measures by local council