Politics
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.
Appointment of former UK Chancellor George Osborne as new British Museum chairman draws criticism
Ex-politician, who presided over austerity cuts to culture, takes up the position on 4 October
Ahead of G7, Cuban artist Tania Bruguera addressed the Geneva Summit on Human Rights and Democracy
The activist spoke about her own experiences with state repression and the growing movement for political change in the country
Uyghur tribunal reveals horrific abuses inside Xinjiang detention camps
Museums who partner with China need to know about the violence, says panel investigating alleged crimes against humanity
'Mount Recyclemore': ahead of summit, artist builds gigantic electronic waste sculpture of G7 leaders
Kirill Serebrennikov, film director and ousted arts complex chief, banned from leaving Russia for Cannes
His film Petrov’s Flu has been nominated for the prestigious Palme d’Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival
Door still open to Hermitage Barcelona after city council calls for revised project
Ongoing negotiations for a new satellite of the Russian museum will focus on a collaboration with the Barcelona opera house
Fuelling culture war, UK government forms new 'retain and explain' board for controversial monuments
"Independence cuts both ways," UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden warns museums and heritage bodies
Museum directors and art school leaders demand that UK government ‘scraps cuts to arts education’
"Art is essential to the growth of this country," say 300 art world figures and academics in open letter
Germany pledges to return Benin bronzes to Nigeria starting in 2022
“We are facing up to our historical and moral responsibility”, says culture minister Monika Grütters
Museums weigh in on the vaccine passport debate, as countries are under pressure to open up their economies
As Israel and Denmark introduce Covid-19 status certificates, institutions are concerned that government schemes may keep visitors away
Despite Raúl Castro's retirement, Cuban artists don't believe the country will change any time soon
"As long as the Communist Party is in power, Cuba will be a ‘dictatorship’," some believe as Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel takes over leadership
A feeble congress and the raising up of poetry in Cuba
While the Eighth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party ignored the needs of the people, the activist group 27N published a manifesto encapsulating their aims for the future
Plans to build new Museum of Brexit move ahead with plea for funds and objects
Institution initially called the Museum of Sovereignty will present a balanced picture of the divisive EU debate, say founders
Russian culture figures fear new law change will require government approval for museum tours, exhibitions and lectures
Artists and curators says the amendment to the eduction law, which is intended to stop anti-Russia propaganda, will restrict cultural activity
National Trust's report on colonial and slavery history did not breach charity law, regulator says
Research commissioned by the trust provoked complaints from Conservative politicians amid UK culture war around controversial monuments