The proposed legislation is seen as an effort to defend Confederate monuments and markers in the public sphere by streamlining civil lawsuits

The artist’s augmented-reality artwork addresses the evisceration of abortion rights in the US

Last month, citing a state law prohibiting the use of public funds for abortion, a college removed my works and those of two other artists from a show about healthcare

The gifts given to Thomas or on his behalf include a painting of him and his wife and $105,000 to fund a portrait at his alma mater

Though the Sunshine State's agencies have adopted extreme views on other topics, its Department of Education rebuffed claims that "David" is pornographic

With the highest court in the US expected to rule against policies intended to boost student body diversity, universities and colleges are exploring alternative approaches.

Should Kathy Hochul’s state budget for financial year 2024 come to pass, funds for the New York Council for the Arts will be slashed by $61.7m

The mayor of Florence and the director of the Galleria dell’Accademia have invited the ousted principal and her students on an honorary visit

Baca is among the 12 individuals and organisations receiving the US federal government’s top honour for artists and art patrons this year

The art and cultural sectors had a larger impact on the US GDP in 2021 than ever before, according to a new report from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bureau of Economic Analysis

Three works addressing abortion were removed from the exhibition at Lewis-Clark State College

Members of the House of Representatives’ Oversight and Accountability Committee have also asked Georges Bergès for details of his communications with the White House

America left the United Nations heritage organisation in 2019 after its members voted to accept Palestine as a member state

Tsione Wolde-Michael, director of the Center for Restorative History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, is the first Black leader of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

The city's mayor, Ed Gainey, has proposed a series of sweeping changes to the way public art is funded and commissioned there

The man known as The Merchant of Death was exchanged for the American athlete, who was arrested for possessing cannabis oil at a Moscow airport in February

Vincent Gillespie has been charged with nine federal crimes, including assaulting, resisting or impeding police

Conceptual artist Michele Pred will draw two giant abortion pills for reproductive health justice

The funds are part of a $159m bond local voters approved in the 8 November US midterm election to benefit local cultural organisations

Lauder is one of several major collectors who have used their wealth to support right-wing candidates this midterm election cycle

Five years ago, a landmark exhibition of art created by detainees began touring the US. But a government U-turn has blocked works from leaving the prison, raising the question: whose art is it?

The 19th edition of the photography exhibition is on view across various venues in the Texan metropolis

Anthony Amore, who has overseen security at the Gardner for 17 years, is running as a Republican to be the Bay State’s auditor

Trump had dissolved the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities following members’ mass resignation in 2017

The renowned conceptual artist’s latest public art piece, a collaboration with PEN America, comes after after shocking attacks on authors and journalists in the US

In the face of a humanitarian crisis caused by governor Abbott busing migrants to sanctuary cities, artists Guadalupe Maravilla and Mariana Parisca and PPOW gallery are gathering supplies and donations

But the Naming Commission's latest report, focused on the American military and naval academies, could not recommend the removal of a Ku Klux Klan panel at the former institution

Commissioned while Obama was still in office, the portraits would traditionally have been unveiled during the Trump administration, but no such ceremony was ever organised

The state has issued a lawsuit against Biden’s overturning of a Trump-era decision to open protected lands in the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments to resource extraction

The funds will cover nearly the entire cost of commissioning official portraits of the former president and former first lady Melania Trump for the National Portrait Gallery