Brexit

Artist Jonas Lund has created a Cambridge Analytica caricature, ‘Operation Earnest Voice’, with one simple mission – but how serious is his ‘leftist fake news generator’?

‘It was a piece of long-term thinking that put aside political expediency for the future benefit of citizens’

In further news: cultural figures demand resignation of Germany’s foreign minister; Joan Miró paintings damaged in Venice floods

A new study claims that the differences between Leavers and Remainers in the UK extend to artistic taste

The UK prime minister has revealed plans for celebrations in 2022 ‘to showcase what makes our country great today’

Mother and daughter topple playground art; and Mr Brexit fails to sell at Royal Academy: all the latest in art world madness

In further news: Directors of UK Festivals write open letter over visa procedures; US dealers protest Trump’s 25% Chinese art tariff

In further news: artists rally behind detained photographer Shahidul Alam; crisis talks at London museums following decline in visitors 

‘The cultural sector will suffer and we will suffer’ – a new report calls for preferential agreements for EU arts workers

‘Should the exit be chaotic, it is hard to see global public opinion remaining buoyant,’ the Soft Power 30 report’s authors warn

In further news: Brexit voters avoid arts; New York libraries’s culture pass unlocks museums; Grayson Perry-backed artists’s housing wins approval 

The planned increase for 2021–27 would take cultural sector funding to EUR€1.9 billion but post-Brexit, UK eligibility is uncertain

In other news: a stay of execution for the NEA and NEH and the most popular exhibition of 2017

In other news: the inaugural Lahore Biennial will go ahead and the controversially cancelled Max Stern exhibition is back on

Meanwhile ... UK cities barred from European Capital of Culture; Zanele Muholi awarded France’s Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters

Pioneering Pop artist James Rosenquist passes away, aged 83; Sky Arts establishes post-Brexit art fund; Anita Dube named Kochi-Muziris curator

In the aftermath of the EU referendum, the UK government must work harder than ever to support artists and their institutions

From Beethoven's lesbianism to the precarious foundations of political philosophy: what to read this weekend

For part five of our special series, some thoughts on the special relationship between the UK and US

Islands, isolation and the difficulties of reflecting reality