Oliver Dowden confirms recipients were "encouraged" to acknowledge fund on websites and social media

Culture ministry gives Jesse Katayama access after being stranded in Peru for seven months because of coronavirus

Whitechapel, Whitworth, Mary Rose Trust and Photo London are also among the recipients for long-awaited Covid-19 rescue funds

Online auction of art and antiques that would have been exhibited at Parisian fair achieves €1.5m with 21 of 91 lots sold

From the National Gallery's long-awaited Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition to Damien Hirst's career-spanning show at his own Newport Street Gallery

The coronavirus-hit heritage body looks to save around £100m through redundancies

The curator and University of Oxford professor tells us about his new book, The Brutish Museums, which details how museums themselves were “used as a unique type of weapon”

An exclusive excerpt and images from a new book chronicling 35 years of “creative complaining” by the US-based feminist art collective

Dealer offered to buy the Egyptian artefact for £4m and save it for the nation, claims Art & Antiques Appraisals

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

The webinar will feature speakers including Max Hollein and Mikhail Piotrovsky and will be co-hosted by Louvre Abu Dhabi and NYU Abu Dhabi

“An exhibition with such strong commentary on race cannot be done by all white curators,” says NGA chief Kaywin Feldman

Court erupts after attendee shouts that African funeral pole "belongs to us"

Union says years of mismanagement are to blame for current crisis at the Southbank Centre, home to the Royal Festival Hall and Hayward Gallery

Murals, photographs and films by the French artist from past two decades will explore issues such as immigration and gun control

“The people who run our great institutions do not want trouble,” say signatories

Review of state art collection is part of move to make it “more representative of diversity”

Museum says it is in "its worst financial position on record" because of coronavirus

French government also considering option of a seven-year overhaul that would allow the Paris gallery to stay partially open

Following government intervention, the historic Parisian exhibition space will now undergo a more 'sober restoration'

Move is deemed “cowardly” and “patronising” after joint statement from host museums including National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and London’s Tate Modern

Publishers looking for ways to draw in wider audiences to the lives and careers of famous artists are increasingly turning to graphic novels

New 3D imagery reveals secrets of the Renaissance masterpieces as space reopens in time for 500th anniversary of Old Master's death

The latest virtual fair, OVR:2020, limits 100 galleries to showing six works each, all produced this year—we pick our highlights

Dutch entrepreneur Rob Defares has donated €10m to the new initiative

Aix-en-Provence city council says that sale fell through after negotiations with artist’s stepdaughter broke down

The Garfield Weston foundation is offering grants of up to £2m while Historic England is launching a £7.4m initiative for artist projects that help boost high streets

Daata fair is dedicated to video and digital works and aims to reach collectors who “simply don’t have the patience” to watch films at real-life fairs

Investment group behind the project blames Brexit and Covid-19