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Police investigating Pro-Palestine protesters’ vandalism of painting at Cambridge University
A pair of activists sprayed and slashed the work depicting Arthur Balfour, whose 1917 letter advocated the creation of a ‘national home for the Jewish people’ in Palestine
In open letter, MoMA employees urge institution's leaders to call for 'unconditional ceasefire' in Gaza
The statement has been signed by more than 30 museum employees
Tania Bruguera’s reading at Hamburger Bahnhof shut down after heated pro-Palestine protests
A statement from the museum says the incident involved activists using “hate speech” towards one of the readers and a museum director
Protesters calling for Gaza ceasefire stage die-in at Canadian Museum for Human Rights
The action, staged on International Human Rights Day, lasted 64 minutes in observance of the 64 days since the Israel-Hamas war began
‘Silence is unacceptable’: artists gather outside Art Basel in Miami Beach to protest ongoing war in Gaza
Art community joins South Florida Coalition for Palestine's demonstration outside the fair
Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko jailed for anti-war protest
Skochilenko was charged for replacing supermarket price labels with pieces of information about the destruction of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol
What’s behind the row engulfing the UK’s National Trust?
Plus, a protest-themed tenth edition of the Performa Biennial and a restored portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger
Russian prosecutors seek eight-year prison sentence for artist who installed anti-war messages in grocery store
The St Petersburg artist Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in April 2022 for replacing a store's price labels with information about the war in Ukraine
Artists withdraw work from US National Gallery in protest of ‘government funding of Israel’s military assault’ in Gaza
A collaborative sculpture by Nicholas Galanin and Merritt Johnson was removed from an exhibition at the Washington, DC museum
Climate activists spray-paint Paris's Louvre pyramid
A member of the Dernière Rénovation group scaled the famous glass monument over the weekend
Climate protesters call for removal of MoMA’s board chair over ties to fossil fuel industry
After a protest in front of the museum’s main entrance, 16 activists were arrested after further actions inside the museum
One year on from Mahsa Amini's death, protest art marks the streets
Public works by four artists go on show in Edinburgh, Paris and Dublin focusing on the "battle for basic human rights"
Museum in Philadelphia under fire for hosting far-right group's event
The Museum of the American Revolution is facing pushback for its decision to rent some of its spaces to Moms For Liberty, an ultra-conservative non-profit
‘We charge you with ecocide’: climate protesters call for ouster of Museum of Modern Art board chair at gala
Activists urged the New York museum to distance itself from board chair Marie-Josée Kravis and her husband Henry Kravis due to their ties to the fossil fuel industry
Memorial to peace activist Brian Haw to stand opposite London's Imperial War Museum
The campaigner began protesting the Iraq war outside the Houses of Parliament in 2001 and remained camped at the site until his death in 2011
President Macron stands up for artists after vandalism of controversial Miriam Cahn painting
French leader says defacing the work, which will remain on show at the Palais de Tokyo, is "attack on values"
Milan authorities must hire conservationist after struggling to clean statue damaged by climate activists
Italian officials have approved draft bill to bring in tougher sanctions for protestors who target heritage
In the wake of climate protests and pandemics, collectors are growing wary of loaning art to museums
Prospective lenders are increasingly nervous that their works will be targeted by attacks or be vulnerable to a lack of security during museum closures
Protest performance art in Tbilisi sparks political storm between Georgia's president and culture minister
Use of police forces against supporters of artist Sandro Sulaberidze have been criticised by country's top state officials
As 2023 dawns, the blank A4 sheet—brandished by protestors in China—is a potent political and artistic symbol
The white-paper revolution echoes art history, recalling Robert Ryman and the Philippines-based artist Kiri Dalena
Why is Van Gogh under attack?
Vincent’s best-loved paintings are singled out by climate protestors
'Systematically underpaid': arts courses across UK grind to a halt amid nation's biggest university strike in history
Lecturers across the country are protesting university workers’ pay, pensions and working conditions
'Museums are allies': at Cop27, Icom speaks out about climate change protestors attacking art
Choosing museums as a backdrop to protests is "a testament of their symbolic power and relevance in the discussions around the climate emergency,” International Council of Museums says
Protestors took too much risk throwing soup on the Sunflowers—and missed an opportunity
Had they thought about it more deeply, the activists who attacked the Van Gogh work could have gained something more than attention
Eco activist attempts to glue his head to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring
Dutch police have arrested three people at the Mauritshuis in The Hague
Protest for Mahsa Amini—who was killed by Iran's morality police—staged at New York's Guggenheim Museum
An anonymous collective unfurled banners proclaiming “Women, Life, Freedom” from the top of the institution's rotunda
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers covered in tomato soup by eco activists
The environmental group Just Stop Oil says it attacked the painting in response to the UK government’s inaction on the cost-of-living and climate crises
Protestors at British Museum demand release of writer imprisoned in Egypt
Plight of British-Egyptian Alaa Abd El-Fattah, currently on hunger strike, is focal point of protest as hieroglyphs exhibition opens
In with the cuffs, out with the glue: Italian climate change protestors chain themselves to chapel banister
The Scrovegni Chapel in Padua is home to masterpieces by the Italian Medieval painter Giotto
No oil, no gas—no stopping: Climate activists in Italy glue themselves to ancient Vatican Museums sculpture
The group is funded by the Los Angeles-based Climate Emergency Fund