The UK Labour Party is gearing up for the next election and should be talking about how we are educating children

Work commemorating Tiananmen Square tragedy is confiscated as part of "incitement to subversion" case

The White House intern who hit the headlines in the 1990s says she gave up her 'portrait virginity' to the provocative New York-based artist

A performance in which she burns an effigy of Vladimir Putin, and an NFT of a vagina-shaped Virgin Mary are thought to be behind new charges

Israel's oldest art museum joins nationwide protests against government's contentious new laws, in what arts philanthropist Batia Ofer describes as a "fight for our democracy"

Vitriolic, resigned, hopeful: Brexit has undoubtedly caused upset and inconvenience to the UK art world, but opinions are divided on the industry’s prospects in the longer term

Nigeria’s art market has exploded in recent years—a newly elected government may now fund and build a museum sector

Use of police forces against supporters of artist Sandro Sulaberidze have been criticised by country's top state officials

Physical copies of some of the top secret US diplomatic cables leaked by Assange will be on show

Formal requirement for government licences may well prove to be yet another obstacle to a loan agreement for the Parthenon Marbles

Aida H Dee’s storytelling event disrupted by fighting outside London museum

A slew of cases of museum directors forced from their positions is a "spectacular moment of crisis,” the Museum Watch Committee chair said at annual museums conference

A future generation of artists could be lost as well as the livelihoods of their teachers

Prime minister Rishi Sunak has overhauled the country's Department for Culture, Media and Sport Digital, dropping "digital" from its mandate

Shutdown of the exhibition "Goodbye in Seoul" is the latest in a series of censorship controversies around negative images of Yoon Suk-yeol

Committee warns the future of Britain as a cultural leader is at risk

America left the United Nations heritage organisation in 2019 after its members voted to accept Palestine as a member state

The singer Gilberto Gil and the politician Juca Ferreira held the role during Lula’s previous presidency

The man known as The Merchant of Death was exchanged for the American athlete, who was arrested for possessing cannabis oil at a Moscow airport in February

Boycotted Russia resigned as chair of the World Heritage Committee last month

As Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva prepares to return to office as Brazil’s president, the country’s arts sector eagerly awaits the reinvigoration of the ministry of culture, which Jair Bolsonaro dissolved

Culture is being used by Saudi Arabia to project an image of a state that “enriches lives, celebrates national identity and builds understanding between people”

Issues such as free museums and safeguarding heritage are splitting the opinions of two officials in the Brothers of Italy party which swept to power in September

The artist and activist staged a performance at El Espacio 23 during Miami Art Week "to remind people what is happening in Cuba right now"

Other leading cultural figures also respond to Florida's swing to the right

The announcement signalled a shift of resources away from London, a broader range of venues beyond traditional art museums and an overall reduction in real terms

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

Conservation projects that have been paused due to sanctions on the new government may restart after Unesco intervention

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