Politics

‘Illegal’ immigrant artists take their protest fashions to the streets

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

Kiev exhibition that questioned the results of Maidan revolution vandalised

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

Artists, curators and gallerists sign letter calling for repeal of Trump’s immigration order

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

We the People: Nari Ward to re-create monumental work in New York

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

Hermitage storage centre searched by FSB agents

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

MoMA responds to Trump’s immigration ban through its collection

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

Art world reels from Trump’s immigration ban

New policies on course to undermine exhibitions and exchange programmes

Christo cancels Over the River project in protest against Trump

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

St Isaac's Cathedral dispute triggers political row

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

Signs of the times: museums and libraries preserve placards from the Women’s Marches

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

Korean government apologises for culture blacklist

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

'My America': Whitney Museum of American art explores identity on inauguration day

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

Trump’s inauguration: museums lay on alternative events

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

Russian protest artist Pyotr Pavlensky seeks political asylum in France

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

American embassy hosts Syrian painting show in London

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

Tania Bruguera detained in Cuba again

Artist and activist was in her home country to deliver aid

Stake in $14.7m De Kooning painting among Steven Mnuchin’s assets

Trump’s nominee for treasury secretary listed the work as part of a dynasty trust, federal ethics filings reveal

Strikes, closures and public gatherings: the art world gears up for Trump’s inauguration

More than 80 leading artists and critics have called for museums and galleries to close on 20 January

US-Russia museum loans could resume as deadlock ends

Hermitage director, who has known president-elect Trump "a long time", hopes exhibitions can go ahead with US anti-seizure guarantee

Serbian political party slams decision to build Andy Warhol monument in Belgrade

Vice president of the Democratic Party of Serbia describes Pop art as a ‘fad’

Bill protecting works of art lent by foreign institutions passes US Senate

Supporters say legislation will encourage cultural exchange, but opponents fear it will block restitution of works seized in countries like Russia

Senate to vote on Holocaust restitution bill in a race against the clock

The new law, if passed, would set a national statue of limitations for claims on art looted by the Nazis

President Trump: the knowns and unknowns

First reactions to property tycoon’s election to the White House and what it could mean for the arts

Cuban artists react to Fidel Castro’s death

Anti-Castro artist and human rights activist El Sexto believed to have been abducted amid crackdown

Artist turns Whitney work upside down after election

Annette Lemieux asked the museum’s curators to reverse her work Left Right Left Right

Edward Snowden, artists and activists to weigh-in on Trump at Oakland tech conference

The organisers of the Real Future Fair have made the event free to everyone following the results of the US election

Artists raise millions for Hillary Clinton

Jeff Koons has donated more than $50,000 in cash and through his work to support the US presidential candidate

Would Clinton or Trump be better for the arts?

We examine the two presidential candidates’ arts policies—or lack of them

The end of the world is coming to Manhattan

Robert Cenedella, the “Art Bastard”, brings his vision of the apocalypse to a gallery window just a week before the US election

Woman breaks nasty nearly-nude Hillary statue

She was acting as a “private citizen who was personally offended” says her employer, the National Museum of the American Indian