Politics

Liberty, fraternity, Fossil Free: activists protest oil giant Total’s sponsorship at Louvre

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

Mexican-Canadian artist caught up in political maelstrom over Trump Tower commission

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

Turkish art show granted ‘asylum’ in Germany

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

Read the letter sent by 24 senators asking President Trump to keep funding the NEA and NEH

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

Row erupts as East London gallery accused of showing ‘alt-right’ and ‘racist’ art

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

What defunding the NEA would mean for US museums

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

Art heavyweights back new campaign targeting rise of right-wing populism

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

A week without immigrant art: college museum responds to Trump’s travel ban

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

‘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