The country is due to sign a massive contract with the kingdom to turn Mada’in Saleh and the Al-Ula region into a cultural tourism destination

The Lega party—which may soon be in power—believes that Italy, through its culture, can lead the world

The US artist finds contemporary resonance in the 1940s novel

The temporary prison installation featured live rats, McDonald’s wrappers and a handcuffed lookalike depicting “Trump’s likely fate”

A new law bans government-funded oil portraits of officials, but most paintings have been paid for privately for years

After pushing to eliminate the agencies, US President Donald Trump reluctantly signed a spending bill that assures their survival for 2018

In an online competition devoid of irony, the archaeological site threatened by destruction was a strong contender for the name of Putin’s new weapon

The Austrian artist Martin Roth says the aim is to create a space to discuss violence in the US and help visitors, including school children, take action

Activist curators and directors can make truly democratic spaces, but they need brave boards to support them

Fourth term comes amid escalating tension between Russia and UK, resulting in expulsion of British Council from the country

Protests included impromptu memorials to the children and adults killed in recent shootings

Will New York district attorney’s new unit clean up the antiquities market—or shut it down?

The splendid Nabatean site of Mada’in Saleh may be opened to tourists

Timing of mega-exhibition organised by Germano Celant is coincidental but timely

French museum became first cultural institution to secure ties with Islamic regime after sanctions lifted in 2016

An open letter to Krakow institution asks for exhibition to counter rise of the right in Poland

Others, including the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, support Christoph Büchel’s proposal to turn the eight designs into national monuments

The petition to make the proposed border wall a National Landmark is one of the worst excesses of contemporary art and needs to be called out

Shrine was shut amid escalation of Israeli-Palestinian hostilities

The museum stopped showing the "unbearably relevant" work, which has two hands holding a gun and a candle, after Parkland shooting

Arts funder grilled by Scottish parliament over controversial cuts in £99m grants programme

A 2008 amendment to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act does not open a foreign nation's assets to claimants, the justices unanimously decided

Activist artist tells a “very different story about what art does in our world”

Amid the Los Angeles artist's politically minded work, visitors can register to vote in Texas's forthcoming mid-term elections

Exhibition of 50 Greek, Roman and Persian artefacts is "first large-scale exhibition by a major Western museum in Iran"

The 30-year-old piece showing two hands holding a gun and a candle is "strangely familiar and at once unbearably relevant", the artist says

The president’s 2019 budget includes a similar proposal to last year’s failed plan to defund America’s arts bodies

Announcement comes ahead of Berlin Film Festival which will have sexual harassment, abuse and discrimination in the performing arts as central theme