Activist targets American photographer’s latest show for second time amid claims of promoting paedophilia

Embargo was enforced after South Korea installed air-defence system amid tensions with North Korea

Battle between the government and the Lleida Museum is a flashpoint in independence crisis

Art Basel panel calls for united response to political “apocalypse”

Work made under former dictatorships mirrors current political unrest

Organisers vow to run their own exhibition after government postpones official event

Victims of a 1997 suicide attack want to seize ancient Persian tablets from a Chicago museum to satisfy a $71m judgment in their favour

An exhibition in New York has sparked the Department of Defense to review its policy of allowing work created in prison art classes off the island

The French leader’s announcement in Burkina Faso is hailed as historic—but gets a mixed response

GOP proposal could result in fewer gifts to museums and less art on the market

Move raises fears that Brexit will leave Britain 'culturally isolated'

The liberal intelligentsia say the culture sphere is under attack, while officials argue that it is flourishing

Poland’s prime minister has offered to save the work from censorship and the “dictates of political correctness”

As well as backing arts-focused initiatives, the money will help support organisations working to change government policy

The pair were blindfolded then interrogated for up to 10 hours by authorities over their coverage of migrant workers

Ahmed Jahaf describes what it is like to live through catastrophic conflict

As Abu Dhabi Art fair opens, we speak to the Saudi artists Manal Al Dowayan and Ahmed Mater. Plus: Iraq's Dia Azzawi on creating the Arab world's Guernica

Ownership of vast library of Hebrew manuscripts and books has long been contested

The artist Hew Locke says a creative response to memorials dedicated to slave owners and empire builders can reveal hidden histories

The group says it splashed red paint on the statue as “an act of applied art criticism”

Chairman of the Anadolu Kültür centre, who is outspoken critic of Turkish president, was detained at Istanbul airport

Qatar Museums has called for more anti-embargo art on “bridges, tunnels and walls” across the country

More than 1,000 artists, curators and professionals have signed the protest document published by the pro-democracy collective Pela Democracia

Show of more than 40 artists includes Jenny Holzer, Grayson Perry and Gerhard Richter

Chinese artist was en route to premiere of his documentary Human Flow when staff wrongly claimed his visa was invalid

The protest work He Will Not Divide US has been moved four times after attacks by far-right extremists and vandals in the US and UK

Russian artist famous for nailing scrotum to Moscow’s Red Square invokes the “great French Revolution”