Since the passage of the country’s repressive Decree 349, the state has gone to great lengths to silence critical voices—but artists refuse to be silenced

US-based Artistic Freedom Initiative will challenge in EU court the Polish government, saying it is “suppressing free and open artistic expression”

The artist was set free in an amnesty of political prisoners, which included his British wife

A set of ambiguous laws has pushed platforms to refuse service to artists whose work includes nude imagery or could be construed as sexual

More than a million users have left Twitter since business magnate took over the platform

Dozens of contemporary art shows have been forced to close since the outset of the war with Ukraine—but this one was meant to serve Putinist propaganda

US artist says that Prince Charles Cinema has “misinterpreted” his work

The renowned conceptual artist’s latest public art piece, a collaboration with PEN America, comes after after shocking attacks on authors and journalists in the US

Members of the finding committee—including Tate Modern director, Frances Morris—condemn the advisory group’s decision to pull the works

Plus, a striking photograph by Diane Arbus and the Guggenheim Bilbao at 25

As he prepares for a major retrospective in Paris, he reflects on his homeland’s war with Russia and how his art was born from adversity

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara is one of six artists to be honoured by the Dutch NGO

Our chief contributing editor Gareth Harris will examine attacks on freedom of artistic expression and issues like ‘cancel culture’, providing valuable insights and context

Galleries and artists are Increasingly finding themselves at the centre of heavy-handed suppression on the social media platform

The directors of the Hong Kong Palace Museum and Taipei Performing Arts Center both state that they are free of censorship

After more than a year in prison, Otero Alcántara was convicted of “insulting national symbols”

In 2019, 20 artists were invited to discuss Facebook and Instagram's problematic approach to art and nudity—so why has nothing changed?

Tsvetkova, who is currently on trial on charges of disseminating pornography, is one of a growing cohort of dissidents to be labeled 'foreign agents'

According to reports, visitors to The Woven Child exhibtion at London’s Hayward Gallery have had their posts mysteriously deleted

The museum claims the works' removal was due to a scheduling issue, but the curators involved in the selection described the images' omission as "disrespectful and unjust”

A show at Brooklyn’s Haul Gallery by Peter Clough featuring explicit imagery provoked a visit from a man claiming to represent the building’s landlord

Politicians said it mocked a monument to the Battle of Stalingrad during the Second World War

Instagram censorship is preventing some artists from showing the bulk of their work—and punishing them and their followers

Copy of 1997 work erected on street, renamed to honour alleged human rights victims in China

The platform’s control over what counts as art is effectively changing the way it is made, shown and seen

Blasphemy laws in Italy are strict and can result in fines

Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums

More institutions and galleries ought to be fighting for contemporary creatives with the same passion that Vienna is fighting for long-dead ones

Chinese political cartoonist Badiucao has been accused of "spreading anti-Chinese lies" in his works

Artist and activist who has fled her home country says it is “immoral” to travel to Cuba "when there are so many people [there] who have been wrongfully imprisoned”