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

We look back at the biggest stories of the year

We look back at the stories that have overturned the art world order this year

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

Two directors left the museum last week, and 126 employees have received a dismissal notice

Iraqi-Kurdish artist Serwan Baran supports the move by the Ruya Foundation, saying “the people will prevail as long as we are with them”

Hundreds to take part in re-enactment of America’s largest slave rebellion, ending with a victorious celebration in New Orleans

The arts and performance venue has refused to accept a £1m grant from the Sackler Trust because of risk it would "distract from its work with young people"

Artists and institutions come out in support of protestors who are demanding political reforms in Lebanon

As the museum opens an ambitious $450m expansion, activists are demanding that “vulture fund” investor Steven Tananbaum be taken off the board—but he is not the only trustee with financial interests in the island