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‘All activities are dormant’: how the Kenya anti-government protests are affecting artists

As demonstrations continue, artists reflect on the violence and how police suspicion is limiting their ability to work

Shahzia Sikander statue promoting women's justice at University of Houston beheaded

In the shadow of anti-abortion protests lambasting the artist's sculpture as "Satanic", Sikander's bronze 2023 work 'Witness' was beheaded early Monday morning

Charges dropped against pro-Palestinian protestors from Art Institute of Chicago encampment

Dozens of demonstrators were arrested in May on criminal trespassing charges

Goldsmiths CCA closes until autumn amid pro-Palestine protests

The activist group Goldsmith’s for Palestine is calling for the institution to cut ties with the philanthropists Zak and Candida Gertler

Animal rights protestors cover painting of King Charles III in Wallace and Gromit stickers

Jonathan Yeo’s work was defaced by activists from the Animal Rising group

Student sit-in at Goldsmiths in protest over planned job cuts

The college—an alma mater of Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst—faces a restructure and more than 130 possible redundancies

Photographer Shahidul Alam returns his honorary doctorate to the University of the Arts London

Alam made the decision in solidarity with the students protesting against the university’s stance on the war in Gaza

Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters rally at Brooklyn Museum

Demonstrators took over the lobby and exterior of the museum on Friday afternoon, calling for transparency and divestment regarding financial ties to Israel

Art world power players reportedly encouraged New York mayor to send police to pro-Palestine student protests

Chat logs from a private WhatsApp group created by billionaire Barry Sternlicht were leaked to the Washington Post last week

'No business as usual': Pro-Palestinian protests held at heart of Venice Biennale

Organised by the Art Not Genocide Alliance, the demonstration criticised international support for the Israeli government’s campaign against Gaza

Protestors at London Science Museum rally against ‘greenwashing’ new sponsor

The museum has received backlash for its decision to allow Adani Green Energy to sponsor a new gallery focused on climate change

‘Met Museum, you’re complicit’: artists and activists take over museum’s front steps with giant pro-Palestine quilt

A two-hour rally at the New York museum drew many supportive cheers and honks, plus a handful of antagonistic shouts

‘The pendulum keeps tightening’: what Hong Kong’s new security law could mean for the art world

Article 23 introduces 39 new kinds of security crimes and stipulates life sentences for sabotage, treason and insurrection

Police investigating Pro-Palestine protesters’ vandalism of painting at Cambridge University

A pair of activists sprayed and slashed the work depicting Arthur Balfour, whose 1917 letter advocated the creation of a ‘national home for the Jewish people’ in Palestine

Tania Bruguera’s reading at Hamburger Bahnhof shut down after heated pro-Palestine protests

A statement from the museum says the incident involved activists using “hate speech” towards one of the readers and a museum director

Protesters calling for Gaza ceasefire stage die-in at Canadian Museum for Human Rights

The action, staged on International Human Rights Day, lasted 64 minutes in observance of the 64 days since the Israel-Hamas war began

Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko jailed for anti-war protest

Skochilenko was charged for replacing supermarket price labels with pieces of information about the destruction of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol

What’s behind the row engulfing the UK’s National Trust?

Plus, a protest-themed tenth edition of the Performa Biennial and a restored portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger

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Russian prosecutors seek eight-year prison sentence for artist who installed anti-war messages in grocery store

The St Petersburg artist Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in April 2022 for replacing a store's price labels with information about the war in Ukraine

Artists withdraw work from US National Gallery in protest of ‘government funding of Israel’s military assault’ in Gaza

A collaborative sculpture by Nicholas Galanin and Merritt Johnson was removed from an exhibition at the Washington, DC museum

Climate activists spray-paint Paris's Louvre pyramid

A member of the Dernière Rénovation group scaled the famous glass monument over the weekend

Climate protesters call for removal of MoMA’s board chair over ties to fossil fuel industry

After a protest in front of the museum’s main entrance, 16 activists were arrested after further actions inside the museum

One year on from Mahsa Amini's death, protest art marks the streets

Public works by four artists go on show in Edinburgh, Paris and Dublin focusing on the "battle for basic human rights"

Museum in Philadelphia under fire for hosting far-right group's event

The Museum of the American Revolution is facing pushback for its decision to rent some of its spaces to Moms For Liberty, an ultra-conservative non-profit

‘We charge you with ecocide’: climate protesters call for ouster of Museum of Modern Art board chair at gala

Activists urged the New York museum to distance itself from board chair Marie-Josée Kravis and her husband Henry Kravis due to their ties to the fossil fuel industry

Memorial to peace activist Brian Haw to stand opposite London's Imperial War Museum

The campaigner began protesting the Iraq war outside the Houses of Parliament in 2001 and remained camped at the site until his death in 2011