Reliefs from Ashurnasirpal II’s Nimrud palace, fixed to the walls of a Scottish mansion, have been removed, stripped and sold abroad

A petition protesting his appointment at École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts has been signed by 60 arts professionals

They assailed the trustee's business ties to the tear gas fired by US border agents

Controversial items relating to the artist's life were scrapped from original design over fears they could be linked to drug, knife and gun crime

Mortimer Sackler opened a handful of accounts in Switzerland one month before federal prosecutors filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma in 2005

The Metropolitan and the Brooklyn museums have also decided not to use money from the Crown Prince’s arts organisation for related events

João Ribas has stepped down following censorship row around Robert Mapplethorpe show

Russia film-maker Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s giant installation based on 700 hours of film faces insurmountable bureaucratic hurdles

Destruction of Jason deCaires Taylor's Coralarium installation came after condemnation by local Muslim leaders and politicians

Twenty dancers sign letter saying that “humiliation” is rife in the artist's Troubleyn troupe

Pop artist's fist institutional exhibition revisited 50 years on at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet

Proposal to move Emmeline Pankhurst sculpture comes months after new Millicent Fawcett work was unveiled to celebrate centenary of female suffrage

An op-ed criticising the exhibition for its dismissal of the movie's racist overtones has prompted some reflection

Trieste deputy mayor Paolo Polidori calls image commissioned for sailing regatta “political propaganda”

Directors Deyan Sudjic and Alice Black say ‘professional activists exploited the situation’ and they stand by their ‘curatorial independence’

Defendants in the much-publicised lawsuit allege the Morgan Art Foundation “duped” the US artist into giving up certain rights to his art

The London institution says it did not endorse the private event organised by the Italian aerospace company Leonardo

Chairman and trustee resigned amid investigation into more than £90,000 spent on consultancy firm they directed

Critics fear that plan will lead to parts of the Powerhouse Museum’s collection being sold off

Jean-Marc Bustamante has not had his contract renewed at ENSBA, where teachers have been accused of sexual harassment

Seized during the Ashanti war and long held by the London museum, the prized Ghanaian work is to be displayed in a new permanent gallery

Report commissioned by Amsterdam city council finds that she complied with Dutch regulations

Despite controversy over public art project in Calgary, Derek Michael Besant has been commissioned to create a similar work in Ottawa

Object was returned to consigner not museum from where it was looted at the end of Second World War

Curators accuse the Cape Town museum director of inappropriate and abusive behaviour, according to local reports

Curator Andrew Bolton’s Costume Institute blockbuster is pointlessly offensive to believers

Image is no more contentious than those shared on the platforms by celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, supporters say

Anne Hidalgo’s plan, which has drawn fire, involves storing items threatened by conflict in buildings owned by the city authority

Contemporary Chinese installations drew 'threats of violence' from animal rights activists last year