Politics
Right-wing takeover of Poland's museums continues as Museum of Art in Łodz is latest cultural institution facing change of leadership
Jaroslaw Suchan's contract has not been extended by the country's minister of culture
'Jobless, futureless, in constant fear': Afghan artists sign open letter to world leaders asking for help to escape the Taliban
Non-profit Artists at Risk issue letter to Boris Johnson, Joe Biden and other senior figures urging for better systems for those seeking asylum
A portrait of power: photographer traces Angela Merkel’s ascent in new book and show
A new publication and forthcoming exhibition explore Herlinde Koelbl’s chronicle of the extraordinary 30-year political career of Germany’s first woman chancellor
Fraud: the case of Inigo Philbrick
Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums
Germany’s incoming government plans to improve Nazi-looted art restitution
Proposals include eliminating statutes of limitation for claims, creating a central court for cases and strengthening the advisory commission
Colonial loot restitution debate enters UK parliament with new committee on African reparations
An all-party parliamentary group headed by the MP for Streatham aims to “start a discussion and educate people”
Boris Johnson says British Museum trustees must decide fate of the Parthenon Marbles
The British Prime Minister met with Greek leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who reiterates that the ancient sculptures should be shown at the Acropolis Museum
‘I’m proud of myself as a mini political prisoner’: Artist Moe Satt on his gruelling time in a Myanmar prison
He spent over three months in prison after being arrested at a protest against the military dictatorship that has been ruling the country since February
Review: Hong Kong's highly anticipated M+ museum opens—but can it withstand political pressure?
This world-class institution is a magnificent achievement, but it faces a profoundly different political environment today from its inception 25 years ago
Experts raise alarm over fate of Georgia's leading art museum amid political upheaval
Concerns persist that a government-backed renovation of the Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi could endanger its collection of 139,000 ancient and modern works
Conservatives scrap arts premium for schools promised in 2019 UK general election manifesto
Arts education policy amounting to £270m was missing from autumn budget announcement last week
Sanctioned Chechen leader appoints 22-year-old daughter as culture minister
Aishat Kadyrova marked her appointment by announcing an exhibition in the Chechen capital of historic weaponry from the State Hermitage Museum
Castello di Rivoli helps bring Afghan artist and curator to Italy
Abdul Wasi Rahraw Omarzad set up a school for women artists and Afghanistan’s only art journal
Brexit blues: Frieze dealers despair as customs and transport issues delay art shipments
Some European gallerists say they may not participate in future London fairs because of how "extremely complicated" it has become
'Don't go drink mojitos in a fun bubble': Tania Bruguera calls on art world to boycott 14th Havana Biennial over state violence
Artist and activist who has fled her home country says it is “immoral” to travel to Cuba "when there are so many people [there] who have been wrongfully imprisoned”
Second presenter from right-wing GB News channel appointed trustee of a UK museum
Former Brexit Party candidate Inaya Folarin Iman joins board of the National Portrait Gallery in London
'Putin's been my person since the 90s': ahead of Russia's parliamentary elections, Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky talks politics
The outspoken museum chief is leading the St Petersburg ticket of United Russia, the pro-Putin ruling party, in national parliamentary elections this weekend
Should the art world boycott China over its treatment of Uyghur people?
Plus, Van Gogh’s final months and master printer Kenneth Tyler on Helen Frankenthaler
Nadine Dorries named UK culture secretary
The right-wing politician, who appeared on the TV programme I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, replaces Oliver Dowden
British Council—the UK's international organisation for cultural relations—winds down in 20 countries
Covid impact on commercial income has led to cost cutting, organisation says
Is a portrait of Queen Elizabeth from the British embassy in Kabul now in Taliban hands? UK politicians are stumped
Work left inside the British embassy will be protected, vow Taliban insurgents
Cultural activist Osman Kavala remains imprisoned in Turkey without conviction almost four years after his arrest
Turkish authorities behind the legal saga have been criticised by the European Court of Human Rights
Unesco calls for Afghanistan’s heritage to be protected—but how will it seek enforcement?
UK government agrees that new regime must "safeguard the full diversity of Afghan culture"
Pussy Riot members leave Russia after facing multiple arrests amid crackdown
Rita Flores is the most recent member of the feminist collective to have been sentenced
Make politicians wear hats and Banksy carry the Olympic Torch: we look back at ten years of e-petitions to the UK government
Of the 169 online campaigns related to the arts since they were introduced, only three have been debated in the House of Commons
Cuba cracks down on protestors with summary trials and prison sentences
Artists and writers are among those targeted by the government, causing human rights groups to raise an alarm about abuses
As regimes are challenged in Cuba and Haiti, a timely exhibition on power and resistance opens in Miami Beach
A group show at Oolite Arts explores the ways government power plays out and can be counteracted by those under its influence
Italy bans cruise ships from the Venice lagoon from 1 August
Unesco and citizen action groups have campaigned for the move for years
'Patria y Vida': anti-government protests sweep Cuba, as artist-led movement gains ground
The 11 June protests, the largest seen on the island in 30 years, were sparked by years of economic hardship and a lack of government support for its people
Cuban artist Hamlet Lavastida, a vocal critic of the government's suppression of artistic freedom, arrested on return from artist residency in Germany
The 27N member's colleagues believe he may have been tried in absentia for subverting the Cuban government.