With US polls closing on Tuesday night, The Art Newspaper looks at the cultural issues at stake in this election

From new works by the emerging artist Collins Obijiaku in Accra to a pre-election tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Los Angeles

With a second federal aid package stalled until after the election, our study reveals the financial straits some galleries are finding themselves in—and how they are responding

The Trump Statue Initiative, a guerrilla troupe of performers, have satirized the darkest moments of the presidency

Young citizens, many of them voting in their first presidential election, provide phrases to be shown on LED billboard trucks across the city

For first time in 100-year history, magazine replaces logo with the imperative to vote

The deal with the Department of Justice, which also includes guilty pleas and a $8bn fine against Purdue Pharma, does not prevent future claims against family members or company executives

"The arts and cultural sector has been especially hard hit," says Senator José Serrano

With early voting already underway in the 2020 presidential election, a show at New York's Cooper Union reveals the "power of design in our civic process"

The artists have launched a mail art project to support USPS and mail-in voting efforts

The proverbial arc of history will not bend toward justice without our help, says the artist Sue Coe

The artist’s grotesque and violent images of the US president fit in with her works of political and social protest, made since the 1970s

New London show at Simon Lee Gallery also takes a swipe at art world excess

The controversial executive order issued by the US president three years ago continues to affect artists from countries throughout the world

With a high estimate of $350,000, the sale of "Trinity Birth Quilt" at Sotheby's Choice Works charity auction event could reset the artist's auction record

Ahead of Tuesday’s debate, political action committee Artists United for Change rolled out a new campaign to #VoteThemOut aimed at five battleground states

The Biden-Harris campaign has pledged funding and support for arts and culture as a key policy issue

The physiognomy of deviousness, greed, ruthless opportunism, risible self-importance and gobsmacking albeit garden variety stupidity provides artists of Guston’s bent and calibre with a virtually bottomless well of imagery

Governor Andrew Cuomo has suggested a site for the monument of the Supreme Court justice, overlooking the Statue of Liberty

A lack of protections for—and an increase in domestic dangers to—photojournalists is becoming increasingly visible amid the pandemic and political rallies

Based on the 1860 Wide Awake movement that mobilised against slavery and helped elect Lincoln, the new network of artists and creatives has launched Kickstarter's largest collaboration to date

Exhibition in New York will include works made by those who are part of—or who have ties to—the largest prison population in the world

A proposal issued to both presidential campaigns by Americans for the Arts outlines a national strategy to put creative workers back to work

A recent Senate report found that secretive art market enables sanctions circumvention

Some Italian-Americans, including the New York governor Andrew Cuomo, say statues of Columbus symbolise the history of Italians in the US

But blowback has been swift against the hobbyist painter, whose immigration policies while in office included the creation of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

A detailed report calls the trade “the largest, legal unregulated industry in the United States” and recommends increased transparency and government oversight

Initiative highlights disproportionate number of African Americans incarcerated in the US

Monuments are not the only problematic depictions of the past

Harvard and MIT filed lawsuits against the US government while the president of CalArts calls the move an act of "political theatre" amid the pandemic