Bipartisan letter to budget committee urges an increase in funding

Move comes after court ruling allows right-wing government to create new Gdansk institution

The Restless Earth explores the divisive subject currently preoccupying global media

The controversy over Dana Schutz's Open Casket is like a scene depicted in another of her paintings: a fight in an elevator with worn cables

British-Indian artist is among raft of leading cultural figures who oppose Brexit

The pair say a nearly decade-old legal dispute against them in Poland is politically motivated

The country’s presidential election on 7 May could strengthen or derail the trade, with the emergence of far-right contender Marine Le Pen a particular cause for concern

In the first climate change performance inside the Paris museum, protesters shed black clothes to create a mock oil spill

Miriam Aroeste says she was surprised to have her art mixed up with the US President’s politics

Exhibition goes on show in Stuttgart after being cancelled in Istanbul in 2016

The bipartisan group outlines the importance of the culture agencies and how they improve American’s lives

LD50 defends programme as promoting the “free exploration of ideas” while campaigners call for its closure

The country's cultural institutions speak out about the importance of the National Endowment for the Arts, as President Trump's office drafts a new budget

Tacita Dean, Ed Ruscha and Frances Morris sign-up in support of the Hands off our Revolution movement

Over the Presidents’ Day break, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Massachusetts will remove or obscure work by artists, or donated by collectors, who are immigrants

New York's White Box gallery is organising a runway performance to highlight the precarious conditions of undocumented migrants

Video shows attackers beating a gallery guard and tearing posters, and walls spray-painted with graffiti stating Mouthpiece of Moscow and Glory to Ukraine

“The ban affects all of us” say signatories from across the art world

Visitors can donate their own shoelaces during the live installation this month at the New-York Historical Society

Director plays down concerns over surprise investigation, but some see it as a warning against opposition

The museum installs works by artists from Muslim nations in its permanent galleries

New policies on course to undermine exhibitions and exchange programmes

After 20 years of planning and spending $15m of his own money, the artist says he has no interest in finishing the project under the current government

Russian MP lauds Orthodox Church control of St Petersburg cathedral with anti-Semitic speech

Archives in the US and the UK are collecting the wittiest and sharpest signs from the protests over the election of US president Trump

Around 10,000 cultural figures thought to be critical of country’s president deprived of government support

Come along on a tour of the exhibition Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection

Many US museums are open free to the public on 20 January as divisive president-elect takes Oath of Office

The artist and his family fled the country after the opening of an investigation against him for sexual assault

The outgoing US ambassador Matthew Barzun stresses the importance of the art in a time of “destruction”