The actor, who will be working on improving Russian-American relations including culture, was granted a Russian passport by Putin in 2016

Directors Deyan Sudjic and Alice Black say ‘professional activists exploited the situation’ and they stand by their ‘curatorial independence’

Detroit house was saved in 2016 by the US artist Ryan Mendoza and Parks’s niece Rhea McCauley

The London institution says it did not endorse the private event organised by the Italian aerospace company Leonardo

Public hearings on the government’s plans are due to be held in Washington, DC in August

Online campaign criticises right-wing governments in Austria, Hungary and Poland and warns that Germany could be next

Russian activist group describes performance as a tribute to dissident poet and artist Dmitri Prigov

US Customs and Border Protection is considering whether to remove or preserve the painting, which some have complained is disrespectful

British curator Norman Rosenthal says Blenheim Palace banquet “severely compromises” past exhibitions, while cultural figures speak out about president’s policies

Lawyers for the Prussian Cultural Foundation argued that it was not “genocide” when the objects were sold in 1935

Museum admission charges will be on the agenda of MP who cites “James Bond films and playing golf badly” as interests

A photograph of a frightened child at the Mexican border shows the enduring power of images to effect political change

After offering to return a work looted by the Nazis in exchange for his family’s former real estate, Khochinsky was placed under house arrest in New York and faced a 10-year prison sentence in Poland

The second round of funding will support works themed around incarceration by Xaviera Simmons, Hank Willis Thomas and Titus Kaphar, and a planned installation on the High Line

Newly-funded projects include abandoned department store that was the set for The Grand Budapest Hotel film

Boris Mints’s institution says that exhibitions are continuing to run

Early signs of the order’s impact on cultural exchange have artists and curators concerned

This latest impromptu project is a direct response to Trump's "willingness to inflict trauma on young children and families”, the group says

The art world has yet to tackle issues around works like Picasso’s $115m child-prostitute portrait

An image of his Chicago sculpture Cloud Gate was used in a video by the gun lobby that the artist says “seeks to whip up fear and hate”

Meeting will "brainwash many people" artist says

Leader of powerful Hindu organisation has threatened nationwide protests if long-awaited ruling "goes against Hindus' faith"

“The personal is political—this is a clear and present undercurrent,” says Volta artistic director Amanda Coulson

An Israeli art historian has spent 20 years trawling the country’s archives for Palestinian cultural property

Non-partisan platform For Freedoms has signed up over 200 institutions for the initiative, which aims to make art part of the public discourse

Comments come after Unesco calls for “mutually acceptable” solution to 200-year-old issue

The cap is the first “rapid response” exhibit in new vitrine

Artwork in the demilitarised zone remains unfinished and could be destroyed after the countries pledged an end to the war

They are increasingly sounding the alarm on global warming, through new works and collaborations with scientists