What cultural institutions in England need to know before applying for the government's £1.57bn rescue package

The pandemic has laid bare the betrayal of the cultural sector, but corporations and individuals can alleviate the hardship

Museum trusts in Birmingham and York warn job cuts are in the pipeline

The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act provided a lifeline for thousands of artists during the 1970s economic crisis

Package aims to counter “severest economic crisis in the history of the federal republic”

The funding freeze follows Philadelphia mayor's proposal to eliminate the city's Office of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy due to revenue shortfalls caused by coronavirus

Our enforced isolation during the coronavirus crisis gives us time to think about the role of culture in the public realm

Signatories include leaders at Rome's MaXXI Museum and Venice’s civic museums as well as the artist Paola Pivi

Grants will be allocated to artists in 16 US cities through the foundation's regional regranting partners and can be used to cover expenses like food and rent

Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivers first post-Brexit spending pledges

More than 680 cultural figures and institutions sign open letter over decision they believe "threatens an impoverished future for British creativity"

Duarte has been critical of the Rouanet Law, a federal cultural incentive, despite benefitting from it

Boris Johnson gives former MP a peerage in order to keep her in the cabinet, but survival of culture department in the longer term is not assured

Muriel Bowser launches rival office of creative affairs and blocks access to the city’s public art vaults

Lobby group warns of crumbling buildings and leaking roofs following “decades of underinvestment”

Treasury says there will be “over £300m to support the UK’s world-class national museums and galleries” in 2020-21

We find out how mounting public scrutiny of private money could affect the bottom line of London's National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery and the Tate

Seats on boards offered by major museums are increasingly being used to serve the narrow agendas of the ultra-rich

Daniel Weiss, Adam Weinberg and other museum leaders speak out following the fallout from the resignation of the Whitney’s vice chairman and the ongoing Sackler affair

The revelation that New South Wales's tourism chief questioned the Sydney MCA's inclusion of a Yoko Ono show crosses a dangerous line

Letter reveals that 2013 exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art was offered AU$500,000 of state money despite reservations

The French gallery has been hit hard by a 6% reduction in government subsidy, part of Sarkozy's pledge to modernise the State by reducing public spending

The Whitney and the Brooklyn Museum could lose annual grants from the conglomerate, which gave $300m to charitable organisations over the past five years

The boost, which will send "American masterpieces" across the US, comes more than a decade after Congress threatened to abolish the NEA for financing "objectionable" works