Protest
MoMA employees lead protest on eve of union negotiations
Around 250 staff members have been working without a contract since 20 May
Peter Kennard among artists to remove their art from London's Design Museum in protest over arms event
Directors Deyan Sudjic and Alice Black say ‘professional activists exploited the situation’ and they stand by their ‘curatorial independence’
Shepard Fairey joins group of artists demanding their work be removed from the Design Museum after ‘arms trade’ event
The London institution says it did not endorse the private event organised by the Italian aerospace company Leonardo
Unionised MoMA staff protest low wages during Party in the Garden fundraising gala
Around 250 workers are fighting for better pay and benefits, as the museum gears up to open a $400m expansion
Havana’s alternative #00Bienal ends on a defiantly optimistic note
The event’s organisers see success in the participants’ resistance to threats and intimidation from Cuba’s government
The public joins the protest in Frieze’s Live programme
Activist work reflects what artists are making, says curator of new initiative
Paris celebrates 50th anniversary of May ‘68 protests with shows and new commissions
Institutions remember the turbulent period and consider its legacy
Tate Modern hit with protests over cleaner dispute
There has been controversy at the gallery over the sponsor for the Picasso 1932 exhibition
Activist group calls out Brooklyn Museum’s appointment of white African art curator
The museum has not yet responded to criticism about the “dismal rates of representation” of people of colour among its senior staff
Artists to plant protest flags and stage processions at Frieze New York
Visitors to the fair will see banners by Adam Pendelton, Hank Willis Thomas, Lara Schnitger and Renée Green among others as part of the Live programme curated by Adrienne Edwards
US students and activists take creative action against gun violence
Protests included impromptu memorials to the children and adults killed in recent shootings
Activists protest Louvre's oil ties
Paris-based group criticises sponsorship by French oil company Total
Nan Goldin leads anti-opioid protest at the Met's Sackler Wing
In their first direct action, the artist and her activist group PAIN tossed prescription pill bottles labelled OxyContin into the moat surrounding the Temple of Dendur and staged a die-in
Tate's artist-in-residence resigns over institution's 'appalling response to sexual harassment'
Liv Wynter says Tate is failing women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds
Tania Bruguera and Laurie Anderson join spring edition of Times Square all-female project
Born out of the 2017 Women's March, Word on the Street returns to Midtown Manhattan to co-opt public advertising space with protest art
Christoph Büchel relaunches petition to turn Trump’s wall prototypes into a national monument
While other artists sign open letter denouncing the concept
Former NFL player and Minnesota Supreme Court judge Alan Page tackles racial justice through his family’s art collection
The exhibition is on view during the Super Bowl as the controversy over the Take a Knee movement continues
Artists back Nan Goldin’s call to hold Sackler family to account over US opioid crisis
"Maybe the Sacklers don’t care, but we should give them the chance to discuss solutions, and if they rebuff, then f*** them"—Jeremy Deller
Stuart Semple launches campaign to eradicate ‘hostile design’ around the world
British artist was motivated after local council installed metal bars on benches to prevent homeless people from sleeping on them
Online petition demands Sacklers and Purdue Pharma pay for rehab centres and Narcan dispensers
The activist group founded by the artist Nan Goldin, who revealed her struggles with opioid addiction, says it intends to pressure museums to refuse the philanthropic family’s money
Photographer Lu Guang reveals how China’s love of bloodwood is destroying African forests
Collaboration with Greenpeace documents logging in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Gazebo where Tamir Rice was shot is now at Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago
Theaster Gates and his Rebuild Foundation have organised a display and series of conversations around the disassembled structure, with hopes of rebuilding it outdoors this spring
'In Russia, either be brave or be silenced… there is no middle ground'
Russian art patron Igor Tsukanov has created a show at the Saatchi Gallery about artists who have risked protesting against conditions in Russia since 1991
New Banksy work in Bethlehem says ‘sorry’ for UK’s Balfour Declaration
Work was revealed by actor dressed as Queen Elizabeth II, marking 100th anniversary of contentious declaration
'In Russia, either be brave or be silenced'
Russian art patron Igor Tsukanov has created a show at the Saatchi Gallery about artists who have risked protesting against conditions in Russia since 1991
Workers of the art world sign letter against sexual harassment
More than 200 artists, writers, curators and others have spoken out over abuses of power in the industry
Activists deface American Museum of Natural History’s Theodore Roosevelt monument
The group says it splashed red paint on the statue as “an act of applied art criticism”