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Hundreds protest oil sponsorship at Louvre during UN climate change conference

International activists arrested after spilling fake oil in the museum entrance

Private fortunes drive Beirut’s museum boom

Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano and David Adjaye get involved as donors step in to fill the funding gap

Colchester’s flagship arts centre on the brink

The £27m, Viñoly-designed Firstsite gallery faces closure without regular government funding

US election 2016: which of the presidential frontrunners gets the arts?

Our guide to who’s running for the White House and what they have funded—or cut

Greek museums on brink of closure

Latest bailout deal will mean more austerity

Residency programme extends its global reach, from Beijing to Brooklyn

Davidoff Art Initiative sends contemporary artists from the Caribbean to Europe, Asia and the US

Lottery fund is a success, but grants are much harder to get

Report praises most of the first 100 projects to be completed, but the days of enormous largesse are gone

Volkswagen’s extended sponsorship deal to include Greater New York survey at MoMA PS1

MoMA is ‘das museum’, German carmaker says, as it expands support to cover digital education, exhibitions and events for the next two years

Paris mayor gives city’s decaying churches a Hail Mary—to the tune of €80m

But heritage groups say the funds fall far short of the real cost of restoration

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Five more divisive years for museums and art galleries

The new Conservative government has so far kept quiet about its plans for the arts but the signs point to a fractious battle for resources between national and local institutions

British Museum to send star objects to the Gulf

Assyrian reliefs among the 500 loans earmarked for long stay in Abu Dhabi

Pompeii in a fix despite cash boost

Funds for Great Pompeii Project could be withdrawn as lack of staff and red tape stifle efforts to save site

Has Russian government’s half-billion dollar pledge to save historic city of Vyborg come too late?

Experts blame local authorities in Vyborg for failing to act as architecture begins to collapse

Tate Modern secures £6m in extra government funding

Promised increase to help run extension made quietly last year as public spending cuts expected elsewhere

Three-year, $2.8m grant programme to rescue artists in conflict zones

Following similar fund for scholars, Institute of International Education with funding from Mellon Foundation launch project to aid persecuted artists and performers

Minister hails revamped Egyptian Museum as shining example

Turin-style reforms could take place across Italy as soon as a dozen new directors are appointed

California’s capital city pooh-poohs Koons’s $8m piglet

Work commissioned under Percent for Art causes controversy as the public and politicians across the US criticise the scheme

Fear of censorship fuels debate over cash from oil industry

Companies accused of dictating museums’ programmes in return for support

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Why there are no cash cows in European arts funding

As the European Union announces its latest grants, applicants find the barriers to success getting higher

Florida archaeologists launch legal fight against US Department of Transportation

<p> High-speed rail line threatens prehistoric sites of cultural importance, according to group </p>

Boom to bust: Brazil's arts lose out as economy stalls

Funding squeeze causes museums and institutions around the country to postpone or cancel exhibitions

Africa is the new China, so it must be time for a dedicated art fund

Its founders want to raise $40m and plan to support the continent’s museums

Comment: The Tate should take BP’s money—and ask for more

Protests about the gallery’s lack of transparency concerning the energy company's sponsorship miss the point of how big business and the arts interact

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Will the Chancellor back V&A’s Olympian vision for a cultural quarter?

Art and design museum with space for London’s biggest exhibitions could open by 2020, subject to funding

UK-Russia Bacon show goes on…

…but British government officially pulls out of joint Year of Culture