Based on the 1860 Wide Awake movement that mobilised against slavery and helped elect Lincoln, the new network of artists and creatives has launched Kickstarter's largest collaboration to date

A proposal issued to both presidential campaigns by Americans for the Arts outlines a national strategy to put creative workers back to work

A recent Senate report found that secretive art market enables sanctions circumvention

US-Russia tensions heightened in the run up to November's US presidential election

Painter who famously depicted Michelle Obama honours 26-year-old for magazine's September issue

A new state bill expands federal rights for Indigenous groups to reclaim human remains, burial objects and other sacred artefacts from institutions

The campaign, launched by the advocacy group People for the American Way, aims to motivate people to vote in November

Galleries, fairs and auction houses are issuing solidarity statements and re-evaluating the diversity of their staffs. But "performative wokeness” will not fix the market’s whiteness

A collaborative sky writing project featuring contributions from Patrisse Cullors, Dread Scott and Hank Willis Thomas will mark 80 sites used to limit immigrants

The nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organisation recently unveiled an incisive installation by Hank Willis Thomas on its Washington, DC headquarters

Leaders argue that Trump's plan for a rally there is an "unforgivable affront"

The cancellation of regional markets and fairs have taken a huge economic toll but have also ushered in a "new era of responsibility" to promote Native work

Trust says such monuments “do not reflect, and are in fact abhorrent to, our values”

Launched last night, the guerilla intervention is the latest public work in Washington, DC to address structural racism—but can art effect change?

Activists working at museums and galleries are bringing the fight for equality from the streets back into institutions

The multidisciplinary artist and social justice activist reflects on the recent protests in response to the killing of George Floyd and the history of racialised police violence in the US—and how change may finally be underway

Plus, remembering Christo—the art world's wrap star. Produced in association with Christie's

Lawmakers mobilise the National Guard to quell destruction while demonstrators deface Confederate memorials and public works emblematic of white supremacy

Up to 30% of arts spaces may close permanently, and agency chief fears rural areas in the US will be the hardest hit

The coalition is asking for $6bn in federal aid, and to permanently expand the charitable giving deduction to encourage US taxpayers to donate to non-profits

The Artists for Warren campaign launched on Super Tuesday, as many US voters head to the polls to choose the Democratic candidate

The Los Angeles painter started the project shortly after the Democratic primaries began

In an open letter, figures including Nicole Eisenmann, Hito Steyerl, and Kara Walker have voiced their support for the left-wing candidate

Eyal Weizman, the director of the London-based art and research group, says embassy officials told him an algorithm had identified him as a security threat just two days before his planned departure

“Sacrilegious” act on Unesco-recognised site in Arizona which contains remains of Indigenous peoples

The skateboards are produced in a limited marble edition of 25 and a wood edition of 500

The US is signatory to The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which forbids any act of hostility to cultural property

The Peru-born, North Carolina-based painter Renzo Ortega is the inaugural artist-in-residence at Palm Beach’s New Wave Art Wknd festival

No issue is more relevant—and relevance is the cultural sector’s current leitmotif

Coalition of curators organise events and exhibitions of art by women at 50 museums