New and refurbished museums open in Antwerp, Los Angeles and Sydney as Italian archaeologists make the "discovery of a generation" in a hilltop town in Tuscany

Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani and Elham Choubda were sentenced in September for the crime of "corruption on earth through the promotion of homosexuality"

The anonymous group took inspiration from a similar action last month, organised by a different collective, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York

Part-time faculty at the university, which includes the revered Parsons School of Design, account for roughly 80% of all faculty

Protesters gathered at Lacma to mark the Zahedan massacre as well as draw attention to the suppression and imprisonment of protesters and activists

Following two years of negotiations and a historic strike by the museum’s unionised workers, employees and leaders agreed to a contract

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

Unionised workers lined the main entryway to the museum as visitors arrived for after-hours programming

The strike by unionised employees of the museum was intended to put pressure on the administration amid protracted contract negotiations

Unesco site is targeted by more than 50 protestors from the group Extinction Rebellion

Protestors from the Letzte Generation group have glued themselves to works by Rubens, Poussin and Cranach

Officials at the Gallerie degli Uffizi in Florence say that the 15th-century painting was not damaged thanks to protective glass cover

Workers at the museum have been without a contract since forming a union in 2020

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

The artist Cian Dayrit says the group were “detained long before there was any idea on what basis we were being held”

Demonstrators gathered outside the museum's annual Party in the Garden gala to confront honouree Mellody Hobson, chair of the Starbucks board, who they claim is complicit in the company's union-busting efforts

A recent investigation revealed that rather than divest his chemical weapons divisions, as he claimed he would, Kanders has reconfigured his holdings

Sri Lankan gallery owner Saskia Fernando says artists have found ‘an opportunity to use their art for greater purpose’ in response to the country’s economic and political turmoil

Around 100 demonstrators rallied outside the institution during its gala, hoping to give greater urgency to ongoing negotiations with museum leaders

The rally comes as faculty who have already unionised seek to secure their first contract and staff members undertake a vote to form their own union

Guests arriving at Tuesday’s reception were handed leaflets explaining the current state of negotiations between the newly formed union and museum administration

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

The Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the capital sustained some damage, according to a government statement

Amid calls to boycott the Havana Biennial, artists and dealers are using Miami Art Week as a bullhorn

Archaeologists and museum professionals "urge" institution to cut ties with British Petroleum company

Proposed legislation aimed at cracking down on unruly protests may criminalise protest art

Demonstrators plant cardboard tombstones outside a New York courthouse to call attention to Purdue Pharma’s role in deaths from the opioid painkiller Oxycontin

Artists and writers are among those targeted by the government, causing human rights groups to raise an alarm about abuses

Demonstrators argue the museum is complicit in mass incarceration and the gentrification of Chinatown