Racism
Cancelled Palestinian event at Manchester venue must be reinstated, say artists and curators
The Voices of Resilience project was scrapped following complaints from a local organisation representing a significant part of the Jewish community
Exhibition reveals how artists processed the trauma of a racist mass shooting
Writers, poets and artists create work for show at Buffalo AKG Art Museum after 2022 mass shooting in the city that killed ten Black people
Artist Mary Evans to be first Black director of London's Slade art school
She joins following a protracted row over alleged systemic racism within the institution
Egypt cancels Dutch museum's dig licence for exhibition exploring Black culture
The show tracks the influence of ancient Egypt on musicians such as Beyoncé, Miles Davis and Fela Kuti, however, the country's tourism and antiquities ministry has accused the curators of "Afrocentrism"
London's Wellcome Collection accused of cultural vandalism after closing 'racist, sexist and ableist' display of artefacts
The institution asks “What’s a museum for?” as it shuts display devoted to objects amassed by its founder
Artists take to Instagram to criticise Gilbert & George’s claims that museums are now ‘woke’ and only focus on Black and women artists
Candice Breitz, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Ghada Amer and Athi-Patra Ruga all spoke out against the duo on social media
'It repurposes a building that was first made to cause terror': arts centre in former Ku Klux Klan auditorium names inaugural leader
Renovation work at the future Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing in Fort Worth, Texas, is expected to begin early next year
Fair or not, Tate's discrimination row has damaged its reputation among the very artists it needs to attract
The institution denies claims that it refused to allow the increasingly prominent Black performance artist Jade Montserrat to participate in a project for Tate Exchange
Audubon Society chapter drops John James Audubon’s name due to the artist’s racist actions and beliefs
The Seattle chapter of the environmental organisation is the first to do away with Audubon’s name entirely amid a nationwide reckoning with his legacy
Documenta 15: why is the show so scandalous?
Plus, the Warhol-Prince copyright dispute, and Juan Muñoz at Spain’s Centro Botin
US museums must confront ‘inherited colonial narratives’, says Thomas Campbell, director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Two years after the death of George Floyd, conversations about racism are morphing into lasting policy change
'It’s time for museums to take critical race theory seriously'
There’s a campaign against discussions of race in the American education system—and museums have a part to play in fighting that
Museums seeking to address their racial imbalances could learn from London's Institute of Contemporary Arts
The ICA's exhibition on the police killing of Mark Duggan was unflinching and shows how an institution should handle such a fraught issue
London's Barbican shakes up staff following racism allegations published in tell-all book
Former BBC culture editor Will Gompertz steps into joint managing director role with Sandeep Dwesar
England riots 10 years on: augmented reality work gives voice to arrested protestors
Baff Akoto’s Up:Rise piece can be accessed via QR codes on posters in London, Liverpool and Bristol
Footballer Marcus Rashford 'on verge of tears' after messages of support cover his Manchester mural vandalised by racist graffiti
Public artwork honouring the Black Manchester United forward was defaced within hours of England's Euros loss on Sunday
Oxford professors refuse to teach undergraduate students if Cecil Rhodes statue stays in place
Oriel College said it had no plans to “begin the legal process for relocation” of the monument
Institutional racism and police brutality: ICA London to reopen with timely show after 15-month hiatus
Book by investigative artists Forensic Architecture and ICA presents new evidence in 2011 police killing of Mark Duggan
Exclusive survey: what progress have US museums made on diversity, after a year of racial reckoning?
We asked art institutions around the country about their efforts to diversify their workforces, exhibition programmes, permanent collections and audiences
Trump protest work recovered by FBI four years after being stolen by white supremacists
He Will Not Divide Us was subjected to multiple attacks from far-right extremists before being snatched in a raid in Tennessee in 2017
New Dread Scott works critiquing power structures censored by Instagram as ‘hate speech’
The text-based pieces, installed on the façade of a New York theatre, probe American imperialism and white supremacy
‘Each employee is very important’: Embattled director of Detroit Institute of Arts responds to findings about management missteps
Salvador Salort-Pons says he has been working with a leadership coach to address complaints about staff members feeling undervalued
Several trustees resign from board of Detroit Institute of Arts as it reaffirms steps to monitor its besieged management
Director Salvador Salort-Pons was faulted in an independent review for authoritarian behaviour and insensitivity to race and gender
In diversity and equity campaign, Walters Art Museum recognises the tarnished history of its founders
Institution issues newly written history that discloses its founders’ pro-Confederacy stance and business ties to racist labour practices in the South
How racist is UK art education? A new report aims to find out
Freelands Foundation and Runnymede Trust have partnered up to investigate racial inequality in schools and universities
Indianapolis museum apologises for posted job description describing a ‘core, white art audience’
Institution edits wording of director’s job opening to eliminate “white” after an outcry
Royal British Columbia Museum CEO Jack Lohman resigns, after internal report finds a ‘dysfunctional and toxic workplace’
An investigation into management was prompted by the departure of the museum’s head of Indigenous collection, who complained of racism and discrimination
After a controversial year, director will leave the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Neal Benezra’s departure follows the museum’s deletion of an Instagram comment that faulted the institution on racial issues
What will Biden-Harris do for the visual arts?
Plus, QAnon's origins in Italian conceptual art and Alphonse Mucha's Slav Epic
The white supremacist art at the heart of the US Capitol
Plus, a $2.2m Batman comic and the artists inspired by political theorist Hannah Arendt