Politics

Photographer Larry Fink recalls “magnificent” marchers

Steven Kasher Gallery to host fundraiser pegged to anniversary of Women’s March

Trump: the first year

How have artists responded to the US president’s first 12 months in office?

Anny Shaw. , with additional reporting by James H. Miller, Gabriella Angeleti and Ivy Olesen
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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

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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

Taxnews

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

Outcry over Polish government’s changes to Second World War museum

Five hundred academics sign open letter criticising amendments to the permanent exhibition of major Gdansk institution

Erdogan replaces Ataturk’s cultural legacy with his own

The Turkish president is to demolish a landmark opera house that symbolises the modernity of the country’s founding father

Beijing artist who filmed mass evictions of migrants released on bail

Hua Yong was arrested after posting images of government crackdown

Polish parliament gift shop removes Jewish figurines from sale

The trinkets drew criticism from anti-racism campaigners

The year in the market

Golden oldies and small-space blues

Jock Sturges’s nudes incite strong feelings in Moscow, again

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

China lifts ban on Korean art

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

Lisa Movius. with additional reporting by Melanie Gerlis

Spanish police cordon off Catalonia museum after religious artefacts seized

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

Fairsnews

Art world fights back in US culture crisis

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

Artists bring fight against ‘new fascism’ to the fair

Work made under former dictatorships mirrors current political unrest

Cuban artists crowdfund to create a ‘Havana Biennial for everyone’

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

Lawnews

Supreme Court hears arguments in claim against Iranian antiquities

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

Art made in Guantanamo is now US property

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

What restitution experts have to say about President Macron’s pledge to return African artefacts

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

Lawnews

How Trump’s new tax plan could affect the art world

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

EU Parliament pulls plug on UK’s bid for European Capital of Culture 2023

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

Putin backed culture forum in St Petersburg sparks debate over artistic freedoms in Russia

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

Lawnews

Conservative leaders oppose court order to remove cross from Pope John Paul II sculpture in France

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

Agnes Gund’s Art for Justice Fund awards $22m in grants to activist groups and social programmes

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