World-famous museums overseen by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will be given more autonomy and their own budgets

Plus, Afghan culture in crisis and Kiki Smith’s New York murals

Plus, UK culture cuts and Ukrainian Modernism in Madrid

While Arts Council England slashed many organisations’ funding, the German government set aside nearly €1bn to help cultural institutions weather the financial storm

Learning and community outreach programmes under threat as Arts Council England funding shift wreaks deep financial damage on institutions

The National Audit Office will release detailed data on the eight-month "Unboxed" event next week

An "ideological tightening" is spreading through the country as its leader begins a norms-defying third five-year term

Anticipated audience figures for event dubbed the Festival of Brexit will be released later this month

The Greek state is now the sole owner of the artefacts but all 161 pieces will be on a 25-year loan to the Met from January 2024

Move rebuffs George Osborne, the chair of the British Museum, who proposed a new collaborative arrangement

Major restitution development coincides with publication of new Arts Council England guidelines

Officials will loan the ancient sculptures only if they are returned to London

Question mark over historic Whitechapel site a year after boutique hotel plan approved

Project by Oxford’s Institute for Digital Archaeology fuels debate about restitution of controversial sculptures

Cultural understanding “cancelled” as Russia withdraws from 1998 memorandum and museums wind down “all direct communications and collaborative work”

Tristram Hunt aims to start a “conversation” about the act next year, arguing that some items should be allowed to be restituted or deaccessioned

More than 1,100 looted items will be transferred though some artefacts will remain on loan to German museums

HMRC is penalising art world "participants" that have failed to register under the new anti-money laundering legislations

State meddling is “annihilating capacity of institutions”, says commissioner of Museum Watch Governance Management Project

Culture pass, restitution issues and metaverse will be on her agenda

Sector professionals raise concerns about minister Jacob Rees-Mogg’s intervention

As Macron and Le Pen face off in the second round of the presidential battle, cultural policy is likely to continue taking a back seat

Culture ministry earmarks EU pandemic recovery funds to mitigate the impact of future disasters on religious buildings around the country

Loan initiative aims to decentralise Italian collections and encourage more people to visit smaller museums

Building relationships with all stakeholders—from dealers and collectors to museums and archaeologists—is vital

The $25m initiative is meant to put local artists back to work, through $5,000 grants, public art commissions, and a painting and performing art partnership with city schools

If Congress approves, the National Endowment for the Arts in particular would see its 2022 budget go up to $201m—the highest amount of government funding since its inception

Museums Association says government refusal to renew academic Aminul Hoque’s term is “worrying”, and the chair of trustees has resigned over the decision

Research commissioned by the trust provoked complaints from Conservative politicians amid UK culture war around controversial monuments

The ministry of culture has lost 75% of its funding, threatening the long-term survival of the country’s publicly funded museums and heritage sites