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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

‘We deserved a better time on this earth’: New York’s Palo Gallery presents Palestinian photography

Three artists living in exile collaborated on the exhibition "Longing: In Between Homelands"

Hamburg art centre condemns ‘politically motivated vandalism’ of art installation referencing Palestine

The Kunstverein in Hamburg said the incident is currently being investigated by authorities as a hate crime

Art of solidarity: global exhibitions highlight Palestinian voices

A group show in Amman presents works by Gaza-based artists responding to the war while exhibitions worldwide reflect Palestinian stories

2024 in review: the biggest stories and the best shows - podcast

From the devastating war in Gaza to art attacks in museums, our editors analyse the year's biggest stories

Could Israel’s shuttered embassy in Dublin become a gallery for Palestinian art?

Fresh off a pop-up show in Ireland, the director of the Connecticut-based Palestine Museum US hopes the former Israeli Embassy could become a permanent European outpost

Artist withdraws from Miami-area exhibition over anti-BDS language in contract

“It was disheartening to experience this level of institutional complacency and complicity,” says the artist Les Gomez-Gonzalez

Gaza Biennale seeks to provide support and relief for Palestinian artists

More than 50 Palestinian artists are participating in the worldwide event

Candida Gertler steps down from Outset Contemporary Art Fund citing 'alarming rise of antisemitism' in cultural spaces

Move comes after 1,100 art workers sign an open letter demanding Tate cuts ties with the philanthropic organisation, which she co-founded in 2003

Artists protest at Toronto Arts Foundation gala over funding from Israeli real estate company’s charitable foundation

The protests are part of a broader campaign pressuring Canadian arts organisations to cut ties with the Azrieli Foundation

Pro-Palestine boycott of Goldsmiths CCA ends after gallery cuts ties with donors

Students ended the action, which had led to the London institution’s temporary closure over the summer, after the names of Candida and Zak Gertler were removed from one of the CCA’s galleries and its donor list

Nan Goldin supported by protesters as she pleads for Gaza at Berlin opening

In an impassioned speech at the Neue Nationalgalerie, the artist accused Germany of gagging artists and conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism

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Photobook exploring the suffering of families in Gaza awarded top prize at Paris Photo

Taysir Batniji’s ‘Disruptions’ has been named Photobook of the Year at this year's Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Awards

Popular digital artist Mahasen Al-Khateeb killed in Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza

The death of Al-Khateeb, who had more than 100,000 followers on Instagram, has sparked questions about why she was not more widely recognised by the arts community during her life

Exhibition at Columbia University seeks to bring renewed attention to war in Gaza

Two-day exhibition organised by student activists and outside collaborators comes sixth months after the height of the campus encampment movement

Hate crime charges for three suspects in vandalism at Brooklyn Museum leaders’ homes

The alleged vandals are said to have targeted the homes of board members with “Jewish-sounding names”

Artist demands Stedelijk Museum remove his work amid row over 'refused' loan request

Ahmet Ogut claims a request to loan ‘Bakunin’s Barricade’ to Gaza protesters was denied by the Amsterdam museum

Students at School of the Art Institute of Chicago hold walkout in support of Palestine

SAIC students continue to protest the school’s ties to defence contractors

Sonia Boyce, Jeremy Deller and more donate works to a charity auction for Gaza

More than 200 artists have given works to an auction and exhibition in London, with all proceeds going towards the work of Médecins Sans Frontières UK/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) UK

'We have been able to act as a safe space': amid war in Gaza, London's Mosaic Rooms announces major expansion plans

The non-profit space dedicated to Arab culture has been a vocal supporter of a ceasefire, and now aims to increase its space and income streams

Artist sues US city that cancelled her residency over a pro-Palestine painting

Danielle SeeWalker and the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado are suing the town of Vail, alleging its decisions violated her free speech rights