Politics
Terror victims cannot seize Iranian antiquities, US Supreme Court rules
A 2008 amendment to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act does not open a foreign nation's assets to claimants, the justices unanimously decided
Howardena Pindell, shaped by segregation in 1950s America, receives first major museum survey
Activist artist tells a “very different story about what art does in our world”
Antidote for apathy: Rodney McMillian's Austin show is a 'call to action'
Amid the Los Angeles artist's politically minded work, visitors can register to vote in Texas's forthcoming mid-term elections
Louvre blockbuster show heads to Iran in major move of cultural diplomacy
Exhibition of 50 Greek, Roman and Persian artefacts is "first large-scale exhibition by a major Western museum in Iran"
Hirshhorn to reschedule Krzysztof Wodiczko’s monumental projection after Florida school shooting
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
Trump wants to axe NEA and other culture agencies—again
The president’s 2019 budget includes a similar proposal to last year’s failed plan to defund America’s arts bodies
Germany to set up help desk for victims of abuse in creative industries
Announcement comes ahead of Berlin Film Festival which will have sexual harassment, abuse and discrimination in the performing arts as central theme
Three to see: London
From the glitz and glamour of ocean liners to post-Brexit politics by the official election artist Cornelia Parker
Podcast episode 18: What's the future for ivory antiques?
We explore what new ivory regulations will mean for the art world and meet the 2017 Election Artist Cornelia Parker
Christoph Büchel relaunches petition to turn Trump’s wall prototypes into a national monument
While other artists sign open letter denouncing the concept
Are there any artists left in San Francisco?
City survey investigates the effect of tech boom rent rises on the arts sector
Cornelia Parker captures dystopian political era in new works for UK’s snap election
First female Election Artist unveils two new videos and a series of photographs using drones and Instagram
Trump change: Ukrainian artists unveil presidential portrait made of money
The artists Daria Marchenko and Daniel Green describe the work as “rich and cheap”
US 'Kremlin report' targets Russian billionaire art collectors
Roman Abramovich, Alisher Usmanov and culture minister Vladimir Medinsky among those now on warning from US
Tania Bruguera’s banned Havana performance comes to New York
The work deals with politial corruption and censorship, themes that are “especially important to discuss in the Trump era”, the artist says
Boris Johnson related to mummy found in Basel crypt
Corpse is identified as Anna Catharina Bischoff, who is great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother of British foreign secretary
Después de Fidel: dissident art in Cuba flourishes after Castro’s death
Artist-run spaces and an unofficial biennial resist government pressure
In pictures: rare show of North Korean graphic design to open in London
Exhibition revealing notoriously closed-off society comes to House of Illustration in February
Louvre Abu Dhabi replaces map that omitted Qatar after international outcry
Museum claims it was an "oversight", but others say it was political
Photographer Larry Fink recalls “magnificent” marchers
Steven Kasher Gallery to host fundraiser pegged to anniversary of Women’s March
First look at Rachel Whiteread’s suburban house sculpture in London’s new US Embassy
Sections of an all-American home have been mounted on the walls
Trump: the first year
How have artists responded to the US president’s first 12 months in office?
Museums must reassert their values in the face of a divisive and malevolent Trump
The 45th president's values are at odds with those that most museums hold at their core
How should museums respond to Donald Trump?
We asked directors of prominent US institutions what they can or should do
‘Putin is forever’—artists respond to the Russian president’s decision to seek a fourth term
The range of reactions reflects the ideological splits in country's arts and culture sector
‘The president stole your land’
Multiple lawsuits launched in the wake of Trump’s decision to shrink national parks in Utah
How the new US tax law affects the art world
President Trump today signed sweeping changes to the tax system that will impact wealthy individuals, art businesses and museums





























