Politics

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

Pedro Reyes’s haunted house taps into the scary side of American politics

The artist calls the Creative Time project in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park “political catharsis”

US artist builds wall near Mexican border to confront ‘everything that Donald Trump represents’

Louis Hock tackles fear, racism and hatred of immigrants with temporary barrier at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

London mayor Sadiq Khan ditches Olympicopolis name, but presses ahead with East London cultural hub

Politician is determined to develop arts project on Olympic site in Stratford

Gazebo where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot coming to Chicago

Theaster Gates’s Stony Island Arts Bank reportedly to display the structure

Turkish painter and journalist Zehra Doğan arrested

Her art and writing has reportedly been used against her as evidence of ties to “illegal” Kurdish organisation

Turkey’s Çanakkale Biennale to forge ahead despite attempted coup

Immigrant artists are due to take centre-stage in the September exhibition

Like Ike? Toledo Museum of Art decodes the fine art of political persuasion

Over 50 American political ads on view, from the first television spot in 1952 to those used in the 2012 presidential election

Artists speak out against racial injustice in the US

Growing number of exhibitions and works address current and historical issues of race and politics

Shanghai’s alternative Bank gallery evicted from state-owned building

The move seems to be part of a government crackdown on private entities renting spaces across the country

KGB prison doors given questionable cultural heritage status

Political artist Pyotr Pavlensky, who set fire to the entrance on Lubyanka Square as part of a performance, is now facing trial in Moscow

Members of Egyptian performance group arrested for mocking president

Performers face charges of inciting protests and insulting state institutions

The rent is too damn high: artists tackle New York’s gentrification problem

William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton team up again for a month-long programme of talks and performances that address the city’s housing issues