Artist’s multi-site work focuses on issues such as surveillance and race

Contemporary initiative also includes new book with contributions from more than 60 artists such as Adrian Villar Rojas, Lara Favaretto and Michael Rakowitz

Question mark over historic Whitechapel site a year after boutique hotel plan approved

Staff union claims it pressured the V&A and British Museum to take special measures

Move follows concerted drive by the auction house to gain ground in the blockchain and fintech domains

Russian officials in Switzerland say they are “outraged” by LGBTQ connection and “war criminal” label

The Museum of Art and Photography in Bengaluru hopes to “push the needle” in a country where state funding for culture is being cut

Works on paper reflect deepening political and economic crisis in Sri Lanka

The Amsterdam museum will launch the experimental project space next year, which will tap into socially engaged themes

French curators take the reins at the country's new museums

Project by Oxford’s Institute for Digital Archaeology fuels debate about restitution of controversial sculptures

Joe Morford claims that the viral Comedian piece infringes copyright on his own duct tape work Banana & Orange

Move follows €240,000 sale of NFT of Michelangelo work, with Uffizi taking a share of the profits

From Cold War Steve and David Shrigley's creative responses to Bob and Roberta Smith's warning that bigger issues are at play

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The campaign group, Just Stop Oil, has targeted famous works at Kelvingrove, Courtauld and Manchester Art Gallery

Tristram Hunt aims to start a “conversation” about the act next year, arguing that some items should be allowed to be restituted or deaccessioned

More than 1,100 looted items will be transferred though some artefacts will remain on loan to German museums

Major project by Art UK involving 500 volunteers sees 13,500 sculptures from across the UK posted online

Works depicting gay sex—thought to have been lost—were kept secret for decades

Two demonstrators are in police custody after they attached themselves to a 19th-century landscape by Horatio McCulloch at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery

Berlin Biennale conference will focus on "decolonising" arts and culture

Solo shows dedicated to Isaac Julien and Sarah Lucas, a survey of contemporary African photography and the controversial "Philip Guston Now" are also on the slate

Chief executive says latest acquisition is part of his strategy to stay local while going global

Drive to rebrand Middle Eastern country as a cultural destination underpinned by human rights concerns

Artists including Lakwena Maciver and Godfried Donkor will create work examining colonial history in Britain

Seven individuals given jail terms for stealing “sad girl” tribute work

At the Somerset music event, the Chinese dissident artist is screening a film about his family's history as prisoners of conscience

Sculptures are unveiled on Windrush Day, which remembers the generation of workers who came by ship to the UK from the Caribbean after the Second World War

The ethics of the South Kensington museum are in question after hosting Conservative Party fundraiser