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The terms of the settlement between artist Danielle SeeWalker and the town of Vail, Colorado, include cultural sensitivity training for municipal employees and an annual powwow
The resistance mural, created by students and volunteers, was concealed by facilities workers on chancellor's orders with no prior warning, says arts department faculty
Amy Sherald, the historian Ibram X. Kendi and others personally attacked in the Trump administration’s list of reasons for why the president “is right about the Smithsonian” hit back
The joint statement, which does not name Donald Trump, comes as the US president seeks to remake the Kennedy Center and dictate programming at the Smithsonian
The US president’s criticisms come as the White House begins a review of the Smithsonian’s programmes and exhibitions
The artist says leaders at the National Portrait Gallery suggested removing her painting of a non-binary transgender person posing as the Statue of Liberty
The Irish Museum of Modern Art says it halted a screening of “The Angelic Conversation” to check legislation but will now continue showing it
A statement from the museum, which displayed works by Ai Weiwei and Goya, attributes the closure to disruption caused by strike action
New laws to protect minors from “harmful” website content are alarming artists and privacy groups
The cancellation of a performance addressing the ongoing war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza has also sparked an open letter by alumni of the programme
Recent arrests and prosecutions pile on the pressure as authorities cement a cultural agenda centred on promoting “traditional values”
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