The Trump administration has taken aim at numerous arts bodies. Elizabeth Larison, the director of the Arts and Culture Advocacy Program at the National Coalition Against Censorship, argues they need to remain steadfast in their missions—and consider strategies for survival

The Icelandic artist Odee is embroiled in a legal dispute with a fishing company for drawing attention to a high-profile corruption scandal in his previous work

The artist criticises Australia’s arts funding body for failing to allow him to defend “misinformation” about his art, and says he hopes to take his planned work to Venice independently

There are alarming echoes of the notorious Nazi-organised exhibition in America today—but we also need to acknowledge the differences between the world today and 1930s Europe

As the Moscow institution is temporarily closed and its director, Roman Romanov, is dismissed, fears grow that Russia’s past is being glossed over

Two former employees of Eyebeam, an art and technology non-profit in Brooklyn, believe they were fired for supporting a call to endorse the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, a claim the organisation's leader says is a "misunderstanding"

A photograph of exhibits at the museum covered with brown paper, seemingly in response to President Trump’s anti-DEI order, caused an uproar on social media

The Academy of Arts, stressing it rejects all censorship, says it will not award the Käthe Kollwitz prize this year

As anxieties grow about a new era of cultural repression, artists and institutions are finding ways to come together and push back

A 1990s culture-war déjà vu at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth—with the same photographs causing a stir decades later

Miguel Coyula’s "Chronicles of the Absurd" provides a rare inside view of artist interactions with an oppressive government

The controversial bill has raised worries among Democrats who fear that Trump will exploit it for personal retribution

Recent episodes of censorship at two of the city’s leading art museums have laid bare the rifts between artists, institutions and their publics

Censorship and the risk of conscription have forced many artists to flee the country—and face under-representation abroad

The former chief curator of the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is suing the municipality for allegedly ordering the removal of a print from a Shepard Fairey exhibition

Danielle SeeWalker and the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado are suing the town of Vail, alleging its decisions violated her free speech rights

Focusing on works by artists with ties to the American South, “Is It Real?” raises awareness and funds for reproductive rights for communities on the front lines

The country’s film sector and wider creative industries are wary of new laws governing the type of projects that can receive state financing

Voices of Resilience, which was temporarily cancelled earlier this year by Home, Manchester, is touring to the capital for the first time

While reportedly nearly 1,400 political prisoners, including 163 cultural figures, remain behind bars, the government stages cultural events whose prime purpose is to bolster the regime and its autocratic leader

The Russian artist, who was freed in a prison swap, on life under President Putin and spending more than two years in prison for an art intervention opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The London institution removed works from a young artists’ exhibition earlier this month after they were deemed to be anti-semitic by the Board of Deputies of British Jews

The city council in Lubbock, Texas voted last week to cut $30,000 in grant money to a free monthly art walk

The abrupt closure of the Craft Alliance exhibition came as a shock to the two featured artists

The National Coalition Against Censorship is calling out museum leaders in Miami, Minneapolis and Omaha that cancelled or postponed Wiley’s exhibitions following sexual-assault allegations against him

The digital resource, created by US non-profit National Coalition Against Censorship, catalogues incidents from cancelled exhibitions and performances to removed works

The German artist was charged with “publicly insulting the institutions of the Christian churches”

Native American artist Danielle SeeWalker had turned down several opportunities to accept a residency in the upscale resort town of Vail

The Voices of Resilience project was scrapped following complaints from a local organisation representing a significant part of the Jewish community

A petition calling for the removal of Andrea Saltini’s painting, which appears to depict the lifeless figure of Jesus receiving oral sex, garnered more than 30,000 signatures