Many US museums are open free to the public on 20 January as divisive president-elect takes Oath of Office

The artist and his family fled the country after the opening of an investigation against him for sexual assault

The outgoing US ambassador Matthew Barzun stresses the importance of the art in a time of “destruction”

Artist and activist was in her home country to deliver aid

Trump’s nominee for treasury secretary listed the work as part of a dynasty trust, federal ethics filings reveal

More than 80 leading artists and critics have called for museums and galleries to close on 20 January

Hermitage director, who has known president-elect Trump "a long time", hopes exhibitions can go ahead with US anti-seizure guarantee

Vice president of the Democratic Party of Serbia describes Pop art as a ‘fad’

Supporters say legislation will encourage cultural exchange, but opponents fear it will block restitution of works seized in countries like Russia

The new law, if passed, would set a national statue of limitations for claims on art looted by the Nazis

First reactions to property tycoon’s election to the White House and what it could mean for the arts

Anti-Castro artist and human rights activist El Sexto believed to have been abducted amid crackdown

Annette Lemieux asked the museum’s curators to reverse her work Left Right Left Right

The organisers of the Real Future Fair have made the event free to everyone following the results of the US election

Jeff Koons has donated more than $50,000 in cash and through his work to support the US presidential candidate

We examine the two presidential candidates’ arts policies—or lack of them

Robert Cenedella, the “Art Bastard”, brings his vision of the apocalypse to a gallery window just a week before the US election

She was acting as a “private citizen who was personally offended” says her employer, the National Museum of the American Indian

Russian and French presidents were due to visit exhibition of Modern masterpieces from Shchukin collection

Photographs of works made by artists using decommissioned weapons are displayed in Senate building one month before the election, while originals are on view at local think tank

Two back-to-back incidents at Sakharov Center centred on pictures of Ukrainian soldiers

High-profile loan programmes are hindered by practical problems and political realities

Jock Sturges defends work against pornography claims by conservative protesters

As the UK’s divided Labour Party meets for its annual conference, a politics and arts event aims for social engagement

Damon Davis says Kelley Walker failed to answer concerns about his Black Star Press series on view at the city’s Contemporary Art Museum

The Austrian-run project was forced to close early, reportedly due to a political row between the two countries

Ik-Joong Kang’s floating sculpture focuses on the reunification of North and South Korea

The artist calls the Creative Time project in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park “political catharsis”

Louis Hock tackles fear, racism and hatred of immigrants with temporary barrier at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Politician is determined to develop arts project on Olympic site in Stratford