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





























