Artists and activists gather in Los Angeles later this month for the first For Freedoms Congress, a three-day event to spur voter engagement

Exhibition project You, Me & Cold War Steve: the International Exhibition of the People has already been downloaded 3,000 times with scheduled venues across the globe

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

Current bid for re-imagined image of the controversial party leader stands at €45,000 in online auction

Insurers refused to cover the transport of loans, including salt-mine mummies and Greek and Roman antiquities

But Vladimir Medinsky, who has been replaced by Olga Lyubimova, will 'not be left without work' in culture, the Russian President says

Politician has been working on professionalising the island nation's cultural sphere

Dos Santos and her husband Sindika Dokolo own around 3,000 works by artists including William Kentridge and Zanele Muholi

Directors of the State Hermitage Museum and State Tretyakov Gallery are part of a team enlisted to create laws that will allow the president to remain in power

Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman, is married to Sindika Dokolo who has been working for years on repatriating works to the African continent

Issues raised include the environmental crisis and the future of the Labour party

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Open letter argues that censorship of the exhibition Feminnale violated a number of constitutional protections

Street artist posts video of the work praising passersby in Birmingham for stopping and offering food and drink to a man sleeping rough

Case against Tomasz Kitliński follows row over installation that marked pogrom sites in the city

The failed economic experiments of the 1970s laid the groundwork for today’s socio-economic crisis

Several institutions have closed, others have cut back their opening times as protests against Macron's retirement reforms sweep the country

Centre for Political Beauty concedes “mistakes,” says it will veil monument

As the election looms this month and Nicky Morgan announces she is standing down, the department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport prepares for its latest secretary of state

Decision that Kariye Museum must become a Muslim house of worship again could imperil its Byzantine art and have repercussions for other early Christian monuments

Substance was used during a rally calling for the government to meet the protestors' “five demands”

Local politicians block construction on cultural quarter backed by right-wing government, citing “enormous impact on environment”

Susi Law Wai-shan, Clara Cheung and Wong Tin Yan ran in the elections which had an unprecedented 71.2% turnout

Demonstrators from Argentina to Puerto Rico are relying on traditional art forms, dances, and music to hold their leaders accountable

Decision to lease Italian medieval monastery to an organisation affiliated with President Trump’s former chief strategist is blamed on staff shortages

Will artists and institutions participate in “national celebration” planned for 2022?

Although Tory announcement calls it the “largest cultural capital programme in a century”, pledge is only quarter of Labour’s £1bn culture fund

Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats commit to stopping Brexit and protecting arts funding through the National Lottery

October saw full deployment of culture in Russian and French political and commercial diplomacy with Saudi Arabia