A new draconian law against protests imposed by Beijing and the end of a more open trade agreement with the US has the city’s arts community worried

Ahead of Poland's ghost election earlier this month, a group of artists carried a 14-metre letter to parliament

Ulrike Lunacek was in office for less than four months

The photojournalist went missing after publishing an investigation into a Dhaka sex-ring. Discovered in a remote prison, he now faces a possible seven years behind bars

Appointed in January, Olga Lyubimova is the third Russian government minister to announce a Covid-19 diagnosis in the past week

Finance minister Rishi Sunak has attracted criticism for his emergency bailout plan over claims that it discriminates against gig workers

Grütters sees "massive burden" for arts sector as theatres and concert halls close, ticket sales dwindle

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

The artist will face a summary trial in ten days while activists say the arrest amounts to "state terrorism"

Controversial curator Piotr Bernatowicz has cancelled several 2020 exhibitions and cut funding from progressive art journal at Ujazdowski Castle CCA

Freedom of expression was at the forefront of the fight to overthrow Omar al Bashir, now the political cartoonist Khalid Albaih asks the US to keep an eye on its own dictatorial leaders

Our beleaguered art colleagues need our help and we must not turn our backs on Chinese art institutions, says Philip Dodd, head of Made in China

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But the clause is unlikely to refer to the ancient Greek sculptures in the British Museum, expert says

The Conservative MP for Hertsmere in Hertfordshire replaces Nicky Morgan

Artists and activists gather in Los Angeles later this month for the first For Freedoms Congress, a three-day event to spur voter engagement

Exhibition project You, Me & Cold War Steve: the International Exhibition of the People has already been downloaded 3,000 times with scheduled venues across the globe

The skateboards are produced in a limited marble edition of 25 and a wood edition of 500

Current bid for re-imagined image of the controversial party leader stands at €45,000 in online auction

Insurers refused to cover the transport of loans, including salt-mine mummies and Greek and Roman antiquities

But Vladimir Medinsky, who has been replaced by Olga Lyubimova, will 'not be left without work' in culture, the Russian President says

Politician has been working on professionalising the island nation's cultural sphere

Dos Santos and her husband Sindika Dokolo own around 3,000 works by artists including William Kentridge and Zanele Muholi

Directors of the State Hermitage Museum and State Tretyakov Gallery are part of a team enlisted to create laws that will allow the president to remain in power

Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman, is married to Sindika Dokolo who has been working for years on repatriating works to the African continent

Issues raised include the environmental crisis and the future of the Labour party

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Open letter argues that censorship of the exhibition Feminnale violated a number of constitutional protections

Street artist posts video of the work praising passersby in Birmingham for stopping and offering food and drink to a man sleeping rough