The UN-sponsored event led by Christopher Bailey, the WHO’s lead on art and health, included art critic Jerry Saltz, Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak, and artist Mona Chalabi

The coalition is asking for $6bn in federal aid, and to permanently expand the charitable giving deduction to encourage US taxpayers to donate to non-profits

Teamsters union has filed charges against the company with the National Labor Relations Board claiming the cuts are retaliation against efforts to organise

Art + Action has launched a multi-pronged initiative to reach Bay Area residents in hard-to-count communities, and galvanise the art world to get behind the national headcount

Congress needs to protect this country’s creative workforce

Aiming to stop the spread of coronavirus, the suspension begins at midnight on Friday and is expected to last 30 days

The Artists for Warren campaign launched on Super Tuesday, as many US voters head to the polls to choose the Democratic candidate

Rochester Art Center engages with Soomaal House of Art at a time of rising anti-immigrant rhetoric

The Los Angeles painter started the project shortly after the Democratic primaries began

Volume shows how the political and social aspirations of the Progressive Movement inspired American artists

President Donald Trump’s former chief strategist wants to set up a nationalist bootcamp in an Italian monastery

In an open letter, figures including Nicole Eisenmann, Hito Steyerl, and Kara Walker have voiced their support for the left-wing candidate

The skateboards are produced in a limited marble edition of 25 and a wood edition of 500

Tristram Hunt, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, calls on the international community to condemn President Trump's threat to target Iran's cultural sites

The US is signatory to The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which forbids any act of hostility to cultural property

In the first round of a lengthy legal battle, an Italian court has ruled in favour of a right-wing Catholic organisation which the Ministry of Culture is trying to oust from a historic abbey

We look back at the major events that made the headlines this year

"I want to normalise abortion as a life-saving medical procedure, mentally and physically," says Marilyn Minter

With Miami Beach predicted to be 30% underwater by 2045, the convention centre where the fair currently takes place could soon become an island

"It's censorship", the artist says of curators' denials to suspend work that is part of show on the artistic legacy of the Gulf War

Decision to lease Italian medieval monastery to an organisation affiliated with President Trump’s former chief strategist is blamed on staff shortages

The private museum cited low attendance records over the past few weeks in a short letter to nearly six dozen workers who recently announced they voted to join a union

There is a direct connection between how predominantly white curators have categorised Indigenous peoples as part of “natural history” and how we are misrepresented in contemporary art spaces

Coalition of curators organise events and exhibitions of art by women at 50 museums

Hundreds to take part in re-enactment of America’s largest slave rebellion, ending with a victorious celebration in New Orleans

The US artist on his two-day performance in Louisiana and the role of women in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Produced in association with Bonhams

A symposium bringing together architects and scholars from around the world takes place as homelessness surges in the state of California

The Iranian artist's major exhibition opens at the Broad museum features new work addressing discrimination in Trump's America

Independent curators and handlers could be affected but no major changes predicted in museum recruitment practices

Trump's tariff of 15% on Chinese art that went into effect 1 September also applies to the antiquarian trade, further frustrating dealers and auction houses