Cultural programme of Russian art launches to coincide with president's trip to the Gulf state to sign over $2bn worth of deals

Ed Ruscha, Yael Lipschutz and Tristan Milanovich have resigned over the decision to launch the sculpture biennial in Al-Ula next year

Show in Shanghai cancelled after being deemed "too sensitive" to run during 70th anniversary of country's founding

Traditional medium is back in fashion amid looming Brexit

Uffizi director says he is able to pursue reforms at Florence museum under Italy's new centre-left government

We need to acknowledge the complexity of our time and not hide in simple political polarities, says the director of the Art Gallery of Ontario

Nicholas Coleridge, the chairman of the Victoria and Albert Museum, tells how Boris laid down the law on his plans for the project

Textile-works showing Nazi prison camps and Mussolini with a spear through his head will feature in first German survey of Swedish artist

The Danish-Icelandic artist has long been addressing environmental issues in his work

Politician also says Brexit will have 'disastrous' consequences for creative industries

Staff members found their keys to the city's Art Bank abruptly deactivated as tensions rose between Mayor Muriel Bowser and the commission

“If you are interested in politics you will be far better off if you study maths or physics,” writes aide Dominic Cummings in his blog

Street art and digital art used as tools of subversion, as artists themselves bear the brunt of a brutal government crackdown

As shadow minister for the arts 15 years ago, Johnson laid out his plans in The Art Newspaper

Chinese artist and activist’s team has been documenting the intensifying anti-government protests over the weekend

Artist’s works on iconoclasm in Mosul are currently on show at the Imperial War Museum in London

The Chinese artist will also design the sets and costumes for the production at the Teatro dell'Opera next year

Show at WMA Space tells the “story of HongKongers” through protest ephemera

The work was unveiled as the name of a Conservative politician behind the Komagata Maru incident was removed from the federal building on which it is painted

Liverpool slavery museum keen to collaborate on project highlighting UK’s involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade

Speaking to the BBC, Chinese dissident artist says West is unlikely to interfere and he has 'no trust in Britain at all'

Labour MP Owen Smith calls the tax-free zones “self-storage for art thieves”

“Actions that take place on one side have a direct consequence on the other side,” say project founders

Remain campaigner has said that schoolchildren who focus on arts and humanities are limiting their career choices

From his mother to his partners, the UK's new prime minister has been surrounded by people in the arts

No deal prospect and track record as London Mayor scrutinised

The new project, launched by Pen America and ArtX, aims to support at-risk artists

Museum’s director Tristram Hunt says securing loans and sponsorship is “more of a challenge” as tension grows between Trump and Tehran