The proverbial arc of history will not bend toward justice without our help, says the artist Sue Coe

The artist’s grotesque and violent images of the US president fit in with her works of political and social protest, made since the 1970s

New London show at Simon Lee Gallery also takes a swipe at art world excess

The controversial executive order issued by the US president three years ago continues to affect artists from countries throughout the world

With a high estimate of $350,000, the sale of "Trinity Birth Quilt" at Sotheby's Choice Works charity auction event could reset the artist's auction record

Ahead of Tuesday’s debate, political action committee Artists United for Change rolled out a new campaign to #VoteThemOut aimed at five battleground states

The Biden-Harris campaign has pledged funding and support for arts and culture as a key policy issue

The physiognomy of deviousness, greed, ruthless opportunism, risible self-importance and gobsmacking albeit garden variety stupidity provides artists of Guston’s bent and calibre with a virtually bottomless well of imagery

Governor Andrew Cuomo has suggested a site for the monument of the Supreme Court justice, overlooking the Statue of Liberty

A lack of protections for—and an increase in domestic dangers to—photojournalists is becoming increasingly visible amid the pandemic and political rallies

Based on the 1860 Wide Awake movement that mobilised against slavery and helped elect Lincoln, the new network of artists and creatives has launched Kickstarter's largest collaboration to date

Exhibition in New York will include works made by those who are part of—or who have ties to—the largest prison population in the world

A proposal issued to both presidential campaigns by Americans for the Arts outlines a national strategy to put creative workers back to work

A recent Senate report found that secretive art market enables sanctions circumvention

Some Italian-Americans, including the New York governor Andrew Cuomo, say statues of Columbus symbolise the history of Italians in the US

But blowback has been swift against the hobbyist painter, whose immigration policies while in office included the creation of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

A detailed report calls the trade “the largest, legal unregulated industry in the United States” and recommends increased transparency and government oversight

Initiative highlights disproportionate number of African Americans incarcerated in the US

Monuments are not the only problematic depictions of the past

Harvard and MIT filed lawsuits against the US government while the president of CalArts calls the move an act of "political theatre" amid the pandemic

A collaborative sky writing project featuring contributions from Patrisse Cullors, Dread Scott and Hank Willis Thomas will mark 80 sites used to limit immigrants

The nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organisation recently unveiled an incisive installation by Hank Willis Thomas on its Washington, DC headquarters

The disposal of Confederate monuments will not erase America’s history, but some say removing them from public view is crucial to moving forward

Defending problematic monuments as educational opportunities, the US president misidentifies a famous bronze as a presidential portrait in a Fox News interview

The former president’s great-grandson supports the removal of “relics of another age”

Launched last night, the guerilla intervention is the latest public work in Washington, DC to address structural racism—but can art effect change?

The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act provided a lifeline for thousands of artists during the 1970s economic crisis

Kadist in San Francisco and Paris is promoting a new agreement that artists can use to make sure profits made from their works go to a cause

Governor says that the state will "no longer preach a false version of history" as calls for racial justice echo across the nation

Lawmakers mobilise the National Guard to quell destruction while demonstrators deface Confederate memorials and public works emblematic of white supremacy