Protest
Tania Bruguera and Laurie Anderson join spring edition of Times Square all-female project
Born out of the 2017 Women's March, Word on the Street returns to Midtown Manhattan to co-opt public advertising space with protest art
Christoph Büchel relaunches petition to turn Trump’s wall prototypes into a national monument
While other artists sign open letter denouncing the concept
Former NFL player and Minnesota Supreme Court judge Alan Page tackles racial justice through his family’s art collection
The exhibition is on view during the Super Bowl as the controversy over the Take a Knee movement continues
Artists back Nan Goldin’s call to hold Sackler family to account over US opioid crisis
"Maybe the Sacklers don’t care, but we should give them the chance to discuss solutions, and if they rebuff, then f*** them"—Jeremy Deller
Stuart Semple launches campaign to eradicate ‘hostile design’ around the world
British artist was motivated after local council installed metal bars on benches to prevent homeless people from sleeping on them
Online petition demands Sacklers and Purdue Pharma pay for rehab centres and Narcan dispensers
The activist group founded by the artist Nan Goldin, who revealed her struggles with opioid addiction, says it intends to pressure museums to refuse the philanthropic family’s money
Photographer Lu Guang reveals how China’s love of bloodwood is destroying African forests
Collaboration with Greenpeace documents logging in Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Gazebo where Tamir Rice was shot is now at Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago
Theaster Gates and his Rebuild Foundation have organised a display and series of conversations around the disassembled structure, with hopes of rebuilding it outdoors this spring
'In Russia, either be brave or be silenced… there is no middle ground'
Russian art patron Igor Tsukanov has created a show at the Saatchi Gallery about artists who have risked protesting against conditions in Russia since 1991
New Banksy work in Bethlehem says ‘sorry’ for UK’s Balfour Declaration
Work was revealed by actor dressed as Queen Elizabeth II, marking 100th anniversary of contentious declaration
'In Russia, either be brave or be silenced'
Russian art patron Igor Tsukanov has created a show at the Saatchi Gallery about artists who have risked protesting against conditions in Russia since 1991
Workers of the art world sign letter against sexual harassment
More than 200 artists, writers, curators and others have spoken out over abuses of power in the industry
Activists deface American Museum of Natural History’s Theodore Roosevelt monument
The group says it splashed red paint on the statue as “an act of applied art criticism”
Erdogan responds to detention of leading cultural activist Osman Kavala
Chairman of the Anadolu Kültür centre, who is outspoken critic of Turkish president, was detained at Istanbul airport
Artists in Qatar take stand against blockade with super-sized graffiti
Qatar Museums has called for more anti-embargo art on “bridges, tunnels and walls” across the country
LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner’s anti-Trump work adopted in Nantes
The protest work He Will Not Divide US has been moved four times after attacks by far-right extremists and vandals in the US and UK
Performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky sets fire to a bank in Paris
Russian artist famous for nailing scrotum to Moscow’s Red Square invokes the “great French Revolution”
Street artist Banksy up in arms about arms
The event Art the Arms featured other artist-activists such as the Guerrilla Girls and Peter Kennard
Comment: The Tate should take BP’s money—and ask for more
Protests about the gallery’s lack of transparency concerning the energy company's sponsorship miss the point of how big business and the arts interact
Bob and Roberta Smith's Basel 'Art Party' raises awareness about slashing of UK arts education funding
Bob and Roberta Smith’s crusade against cuts is bringing politics and mayhem to the Swiss fair
Anish Kapoor rejects China show in support of Ai Weiwei
He has described the Chinese artist's detention as “barbaric”
Outrage at Smithsonian self-censorship over Wojnarowicz work
Controversy follows decision to remove David Wojnarowicz video loaned by National Portrait Gallery
Pakistan’s contemporary museum launches with anti-war art
President Musharraf has encouraged artists to promote a “peaceful and tolerant” image of their country through their work
Danish artists' group Parallel Action plans Iranian revolution via an appeal to the arts
With the Danish Arts Council's blessing, Thomas Altheimer and Nielsen will travel to the Middle East this autumn
Tate steps up security for Whiteread's Turbine Hall installation amid demonstration fears
Guards are on red alert to prevent a possible publicity stunt by Fathers 4 Justice which could prove fatal
San Diego Museum of Art refuses funding from tobacco giant Philip Morris due to controversy
The museum has been widely criticised by Californians for indirectly condoning the company's exploitation of addiction