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Israeli attacks on Palestinian heritage amount to war crimes, UN report finds

The independent UN investigative body released the findings last week

Whitney Museum pauses Independent Study Program amid accusations of censorship

The cancellation of a performance addressing the ongoing war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza has also sparked an open letter by alumni of the programme

‘The pain has become unbearable’: Tel Aviv Museum of Art workers stage daily protest outside the institution

A group of employees, representing a range of stances on the ongoing war, has protested outside the museum every workday for nearly two months

British Museum faces internal criticism over private Israel independence day event

Current and former employees have expressed shock that the museum hosted the event—which marks a day associated with the mass displacement of Palestinians—during one of the most violent weeks of the Israel-Hamas conflict

‘Art is an important way of depicting these atrocities’: London show shines a light on sexual violence in conflict

The Imperial War Museum exhibition, which has been six years in the making, is the first major UK museum show to explore the under-reported topic

Artists accuse Whitney Museum of censorship for cancelling pro-Palestine performance

The artists, members of the institution’s current Independent Study Program cohort, decried the decision as an act of cowardice, while a museum representative said it was “clear and necessary”

‘Life is truly catastrophic’: as the humanitarian crisis worsens, Gaza's artists and cultural figures are losing hope

Artists say conditions are becoming desperate against the backdrop of Israel's ongoing blockade of the strip

Gallery Weekend Berlin’s director on the city’s changing cultural landscape: from funding cuts to censorship

Berlin's largest commercial art event holds its 21st edition under the leadership of Antonia Ruder

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Palestinian photojournalist Samar Abu Elouf wins World Press Photo with image of young Gazan amputee

The subject of the photograph taken for “The New York Times” is nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour, who lost both his arms in an Israeli attack on Gaza a year ago

‘It’s all about tenderness’: Gazan artist known for her portraits reportedly killed by Israeli airstrike

Dina Khaled Zaurub was beloved for her charcoal and graphite drawings of Palestinians who have died as a result of attacks by the Israel Defense Forces

Artists and art historians join boycott of Columbia University

The prestigious university has faced widespread criticism since bowing to the Trump administration’s demands in exchange for $400m in funding

Rhode Island School of Design shuts down students’ pro-Palestine exhibition

The exhibition, originally staged in a publicly accessible café, will reopen in a building that is not open to the public

Comment | Why Edinburgh was the obvious location for the Palestine Museum's first satellite branch

While many jurisdictions are making it increasingly hard for Palestinian artists, Scotland's hospitality has been heartwarming, says the Connecticut-based institution's director

‘First museum in Europe dedicated to contemporary Palestinian art’ to open in Edinburgh

The Palestine Museum US’s director hopes the institution will challenge “dominant narratives and showcase the rich cultural heritage of Palestine”

‘The missiles will not erase his mark on our hearts’: Palestinian artist killed in Israeli strikes

Dorgham Quraiqi, was working with the UK charity Hope and Play, when the remains of his house were bombed

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Gaza’s Eltiqa collective holds show in exile in Dubai

As a retrospective at Jameel Arts Centre gathers together two decades of work from around the globe, a co-founder describes his personal flight to safety

Amid desolation in Gaza, heritage experts are pushing a huge reconstruction effort

Political uncertainties may be deterring organisations from funding the €260m worth of restoration work needed to repair and rebuild the Gaza Strip’s wrecked historical sites, but emergency interventions are already underway

Citing censorship, Pakistani artist Rabbya Naseer cancels show at Vienna museum

The artist's solo exhibition was due to open at the Belvedere 21 Museum of Contemporary Art last month

Israel Pavilion show that never opened in Venice will finally have its debut

Ruth Patir’s videos starring animated ancient sculptures include a protest scene filmed steps from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, where her show opens 11 March

Former employees of New York arts organisation claim they were fired for supporting artists’ pro-Palestine statement

Two former employees of Eyebeam, an art and technology non-profit in Brooklyn, believe they were fired for supporting a call to endorse the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, a claim the organisation's leader says is a "misunderstanding"

Khaled Sabsabi, artist who fled civil war in Lebanon as a child, will represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale

Sabsabi’s curator will be Michael Dagostino, who also came up through the multicultural western Sydney arts scene

Artist Fareed Armaly rejects German prize, citing ‘disturbing trend of censorship’

The Academy of Arts, stressing it rejects all censorship, says it will not award the Käthe Kollwitz prize this year

Early Palestinian photographer's exhibition at Tel Aviv museum follows renewed study of her work

Karimeh Abbud, one of the earliest female Palestinian photographers, comes into greater focus in her biggest show to date in Israel

Artists in Gaza respond to the ceasefire, Cimabue at the Louvre, a Baroque printmaking family—podcast

How can Palestinian artists rebuild after a devastating war? Plus, a discussion about Cimabue’s radical innovations in painting and three works from a family business of printmakers

Gaza ceasefire: Palestinian culture workers return home to rubble

Artists and cultural activists tell The Art Newspaper what they have found on their return

Los Angeles wildfires, World Monuments Fund’s watch list, a Hokusai drawing manual—podcast

How the most devastating fires in Southern Californian history are affecting artists and art workers, plus chats about the work the WMF is doing to protect world heritage and a new book about Katsushika Hokusai’s methods

Artists at London's ICA stage mass walkout in support of pro-Palestine protesters

The institution has described the protests at the opening of its New Contemporaries exhibition as "misguided"

Palestine Museum US launches NFT collection in support of Gaza artists

The museum released a non-fungible token of a work by the Gazan artist Mohammed Alhaj to kick off the new initiative

Art in the rubble: how Gaza’s artists are documenting the war

Amid destruction and a deepening humanitarian crisis, Gaza’s artists are using whatever materials they can find to express their reality