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

Publication on École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts was reprinted without text on former director Jean-Marc Bustamante

Amid threats to freedom, career moves and censorship become hard to tell apart

The homes and studios of more than 30 artists in at least seven cities across the country have been raided

Directed by the artist’s daughter and her husband, “A Revolution on Canvas” is a heart-breaking family drama disguised as a political thriller

Quilts by Loretta Pettway have been removed from a major textile survey at the London institution over accusations of “censorship and repression”

The public body “will not remove or refuse funding” over political work, it has confirmed following backlash

The chilling of artistic freedom is impacting artists and those they connect with

The death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny last month, after years of confinement in a Siberian jail, and subsequent quelling of protest, emphasised the flourishing of censorship across a globe riven by geopolitical crises, in a year when democracy is put to the test in more than 70 countries. With the threat of electoral misinformation being boosted by AI-generated content and social media algorithms, artists have been warning of new kinds of censorship. The effect is being felt in real life, online and in social media

Regional governments accused of censorship and political interference after controversial axing of five museum directors in two months

The University of Houston seems to have caved to the threats of a local anti-abortion group

In a recent hearing the artist, Vasily Slonov, likened his treatment to that of Aleksei Navalny, the opposition leader who died on 16 February

Update to guidelines warns partner organisations that funding arrangements could be jeopardised by "reputational risk"

A tour of a show of drawings by the renowned British artist, plus Bruguera discusses concerns over artist censorship in Germany in relation to the Israel-Hamas war, and a chat about an Indian painting from Howard Hodgkin’s collection

The dissident artist argues that restrictions manifest more subtly in Europe and the US

The Eskenazi Museum of Art of the Indiana University in Bloomington cited “safety concerns” when it abruptly cancelled Samia Halaby’s show

Anniversary exhibition at Mumbai's oldest gallery, Chemould Prescott Road, dusted off the archives, featuring artists such as Mithu Sen and Atul Dodiya

The dispute was sparked by a decision to cancel Palestine Film Festival events

Some students were reportedly “disturbed” by Giuseppe Cesari work which depicts bathing nymphs