Politics

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

Vuitton foundation's Russian loan show overshadowed as Putin cancels French trip

Russian and French presidents were due to visit exhibition of Modern masterpieces from Shchukin collection

VP candidate Tim Kaine sponsors gun art show in Washington, DC

Photographs of works made by artists using decommissioned weapons are displayed in Senate building one month before the election, while originals are on view at local think tank

Photojournalism show in Moscow attacked by right-wing protesters

Two back-to-back incidents at Sakharov Center centred on pictures of Ukrainian soldiers

US museums’ Cuban dreams deferred

High-profile loan programmes are hindered by practical problems and political realities

Moscow gallery shuts US photographer's show after vandalism attack

Jock Sturges defends work against pornography claims by conservative protesters

Liverpool’s The World Transformed festival aims to build Momentum on the British left

As the UK’s divided Labour Party meets for its annual conference, a politics and arts event aims for social engagement

Artist-activist calls for boycott of St Louis show due to ‘institutional racism’

Damon Davis says Kelley Walker failed to answer concerns about his Black Star Press series on view at the city’s Contemporary Art Museum

Archaeological work at Ephesus shut down by Turkish government

The Austrian-run project was forced to close early, reportedly due to a political row between the two countries

Mosaic of drawings by North Korean refugees lights up the Thames

Ik-Joong Kang’s floating sculpture focuses on the reunification of North and South Korea