French leader says defacing the work, which will remain on show at the Palais de Tokyo, is "attack on values"

Italian officials have approved draft bill to bring in tougher sanctions for protestors who target heritage

Prospective lenders are increasingly nervous that their works will be targeted by attacks or be vulnerable to a lack of security during museum closures

Use of police forces against supporters of artist Sandro Sulaberidze have been criticised by country's top state officials

The white-paper revolution echoes art history, recalling Robert Ryman and the Philippines-based artist Kiri Dalena

Vincent’s best-loved paintings are singled out by climate protestors

Lecturers across the country are protesting university workers’ pay, pensions and working conditions

Choosing museums as a backdrop to protests is "a testament of their symbolic power and relevance in the discussions around the climate emergency,” International Council of Museums says

Had they thought about it more deeply, the activists who attacked the Van Gogh work could have gained something more than attention

Dutch police have arrested three people at the Mauritshuis in The Hague

An anonymous collective unfurled banners proclaiming “Women, Life, Freedom” from the top of the institution's rotunda

The environmental group Just Stop Oil says it attacked the painting in response to the UK government’s inaction on the cost-of-living and climate crises

Plight of British-Egyptian Alaa Abd El-Fattah, currently on hunger strike, is focal point of protest as hieroglyphs exhibition opens

The Scrovegni Chapel in Padua is home to masterpieces by the Italian Medieval painter Giotto

The group is funded by the Los Angeles-based Climate Emergency Fund

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was sentenced to five years in prison in June

More protest actions will follow, says Ultima Generazione group

The campaign group, Just Stop Oil, has targeted famous works at Kelvingrove, Courtauld and Manchester Art Gallery

Two demonstrators are in police custody after they attached themselves to a 19th-century landscape by Horatio McCulloch at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery

Tsvetkova, who is currently on trial on charges of disseminating pornography, is one of a growing cohort of dissidents to be labeled 'foreign agents'

Russian artist Vadim Zakharov was stopped by Italian police

Georgian gallery lays down Ukrainian flag in its booth while fair says it will donate 25% of ticket sales to Ukrainian refugees

Cimam is demanding "greater clarity" over the reasons for Alistair Hudson’s proposed removal

More than 20 artists have withdrawn from British Art Show 9 in support of "political freedom, and artistic expression in cultural institutions and universities across the UK"

Russia has warned of "legal repercussions" for taking part in anti-war demonstrations

BP or not BP demonstrated against the museum's partnership with the oil giant over the weekend

Local associations are objecting to plans to transform part of the former shipyard into a new site for the Biennale’s historical archives

Collectors can write their own message about China’s regime onto the blockchain

Yulia Tsvetkova, a LGBTQ activist-artist, is facing pornography charges for posting body-positive drawings

Initiative questions why gyms, hair salons and brothels have reopened but culture venues remain closed in the Netherlands