Ongoing negotiations for a new satellite of the Russian museum will focus on a collaboration with the Barcelona opera house

"Independence cuts both ways," UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden warns museums and heritage bodies

"Art is essential to the growth of this country," say 300 art world figures and academics in open letter

“We are facing up to our historical and moral responsibility”, says culture minister Monika Grütters

As Israel and Denmark introduce Covid-19 status certificates, institutions are concerned that government schemes may keep visitors away

"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

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

Institution initially called the Museum of Sovereignty will present a balanced picture of the divisive EU debate, say founders

Artists and curators says the amendment to the eduction law, which is intended to stop anti-Russia propaganda, will restrict cultural activity

Research commissioned by the trust provoked complaints from Conservative politicians amid UK culture war around controversial monuments

Although “thumbstoppable” social media content is essential, the online world has dark consequences too, says Tristram Hunt, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum

Eight mega warehouses announced in the budget will 'unlock billions' in investment, says the government, but they have a tarnished reputation, market analysts warn

Experts oppose culture ministry's proposal to separate Greece's major museums from the state archaeological service

The culture sector is being relegated to the ranks of "indoor entertainment"

Chancellor Rishi Sunak digs deep, adding £300m to the £1.57bn Cultural Recovery Fund, £90m more for museums, and £18m for cultural community projects

Seventeen artists were killed, 82 imprisoned and 133 detained over the past year in 26 countries, according to new Freemuse study

Independence of museums and heritage bodies is at risk, say Ed Vaizey and Chris Smith, as Johnson’s government pushes ‘anti-woke’ agenda

Artists among those being arrested and tortured for speaking up against President Aleksandr Lukashenko

Commercial galleries, non-essential retail, and even gyms have been given the green light to open before museums under the UK government's "roadmap" to lift coronavirus restrictions

“Retain and explain” or restrain and refrain? Culture chiefs raise the alarm on government’s policy to keep problematic statues ahead of crucial meeting

Commercial galleries will be permitted to open from 12 April under the new plan to gradually lift Covid-19 safety measures

Art professionals “on and off the island” are urged to stop working with state-run institutions that have been “complicit in their silence” as the government amps up efforts to squash dissent

International Council of Museums committees in Ukraine and Poland appeal for help to secure Olena Pekh's release

Norway Grants pulled the award after Podkarpackie councillors voted for a resolution to "resist the promotion of LGBT ideology"

Although national museums are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Perpignan's Musée Rigaud, Casa Pairal, Musée Puig and the museum of natural history are open to the public again

Plus, India reconstructs its history and Navid Nuur on Walter de Maria

The Dutch government adopts a committee’s “radical” guidelines, putting it at the forefront of European efforts to return colonial-era museum acquisitions

Footage from the protest also shows the Cuban minister of culture striking a journalist

Plus, a $2.2m Batman comic and the artists inspired by political theorist Hannah Arendt

Luigi Brugnaro's "entrepreneurial" decision violates Venice's historic agreement with Italian state to keep the landmark open to the public