“Black spider” letter helps to save Antarctic Shackleton and Scott huts

John Whittingdale is expected to focus more on the media than on the arts

Legal conference tackles issues facing US museums, from commissioning work to developing diversity

International art world shows solidarity with Cuban artist—but her compatriots are less keen

Manifestos make big promises on the arts but remain vague on funding nation prepares to go to the polls <br>

Jane Jakeman on art since the Arab Spring

As the polls open today, and the UK votes for its next government, the British artist is standing against the architect of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition’s education policy, Michael Gove. We joined them on the campaign hustings

Ten new works for parts of the city thanks to High Street Fund initiated after 2011 riots<br>

As the European Union announces its latest grants, applicants find the barriers to success getting higher

Second edition to open at the Visual Culture Research Center in September with related projects across Europe, curators say

Zaki Nusseibeh of the UAE endorses the role of institutions such as the British Museum during discussion with French cultural leader Jack Lang

But it remains unclear what chance either proposal has of passing into law while Republicans control both houses of Congress

Denmark’s Asger Jorn was far more than a painter

The union of devotional imagery and religious observance was a comfort

A Belgian court recently found Tuymans guilty, a ruling that ignores appropriation’s vital role in art over the centuries and has worrying implications for the future

Bob and Roberta Smith’s crusade against cuts is bringing politics and mayhem to the Swiss fair