At a conference organised by the new Venice Sustainability Foundation in June, major public figures agreed for the first time that sea-level rise is the main problem facing the city now

It is time to think about the extent to which technology itself has power over us, independent of people in tech companies

The British artist invited dozens of MPs to view his film about Grenfell Tower at London's Serpentine Galleries, but most only showed up after subsequent guilt-tripping

The recent communal violence which burned down the Azizia Madrasa occurred in the wake of numerous recent laws targeting Muslims

Among the art world’s favourite terms, "immersive" art has become a byword for a shallow form of meaningless spectacle

To survive this economic crisis, we must build new networks between public and commercial galleries

Only humans can make proper sense of the world, Bendor Grosvenor argues

As the Washington Principles turn 25, the complexities of restitution in a global art world have mushroomed—leaving lessons to be learned for institutions, governments and art market players

As Black History Month begins in the US, arts administrator and historian Tsione Wolde-Michael gives three key points for institutions to consider

In stark comparison to recent staggering auction-house results, educators are struggling to maintain funding, says our columnist Melanie Gerlis

With cuts both to creative education in schools and learning departments in museums, its time for institutions to find vital new purposes, says Art Fund UK director Jenny Waldman

While Arts Council England slashed many organisations’ funding, the German government set aside nearly €1bn to help cultural institutions weather the financial storm

Gabriele Finaldi responds to criticism over the gallery's proposed redesign for the Sainsbury Wing

While initiatives such as the Gallery Climate Coalition are seeing positive results, much remains to be done across the sector

Museums Association director Sharon Heal explains the long-term effects of systemically underfunding the UK's cultural sector

Joshua Reynolds's painting of a Polynesian man who travelled to Europe is emblematic of the extraordinary meeting of European and Pacific cultures 250 years ago

A firsthand encounter with the Spanish artist's portrait of Pope Innocent X in Rome puts the later interpretations in perspective

With old codes now dispensed of, my hope is to lobby for new oversights that could enforce stricter and clearer rules

'Brave Ukraine' event—presided over by Christie’s and held at Tate Modern—shows a cultural crowd keen to distance itself from the oligarchs it once wooed

An unattributed painting in Lincolnshire's Burghley House bears a striking resemblance to the work of Hans Eworth

The historian Martin Kemp tells us what it was like co-curating a new show of the artist’s works, displayed amongst the masterpieces of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge

Artists from Magdalene Odundo to Ai Weiwei are demonstrating that the art form goes way beyond the "applied"

Senator Patricia Bovey's initiative 'Honouring Canada's Black Artists' bringing works by Black Canadian artists into the Senate building is now in its second iteration

The full story of colonial plundering lies not in museum displays but in unopened, uncatalogued boxes in store rooms

The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution

Presenting beauty without the schmaltz is a challenge worth undertaking, as the delayed Raphael show at London's National Gallery will demonstrate

The UK government's sinister dismantling of its creative sector is slowly but surely unfolding through cuts in funding and increased political control

The more than 1,700 workers who lost their jobs last year have every right to feel aggrieved as Trust weathers storm regardless of staff savings

Readers respond to an article about a new publication detailing the founding of the Iranian museum

The latest digital craze is only perpetuating the structural sexism inherent in art history