Donald Trump

After attending an exhibition at the Met Museum, Lucy Ives wonders about the allegories and metaphors we choose to imagine our political future

Artists and celebrities pledge support for the democratic candidate, bolstering her online image through donations and agit-prop

The plan to codify a ‘classical architectural style’ for US federal buildings has become the latest front in the American culture wars

As the artist has his major retrospective at Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, he speaks about his art historical influences and pet peeves 

Motion and migration in the paintings of Frank Bowling

In further news: Trump’s wall risks damaging archaeological sites; Khadija Saye’s prints to fund arts education scheme

The project encourages children on both sides of the wall to play across the divide

An altercation between a White House correspondent and the president becomes a visual question: what is it that we see?

In further news: Berlin cultural institutions rally against far-right; Tate Liverpool to stage first UK show dedicated to Keith Haring

Wes Anderson and Juman Malouf’s show opens in Vienna; conspiracy theories at the Met during the Midterms and Shanghai’s psychedelic cat

In further news: Activists protest Luke Willis Thompson at Turner Prize exhibition opening; Helena Almeida (1934–2018)

The work of John Hanson, Rob Nilsson and Fred Lonidier establishes a dialectic between a leftist melancholy and a more forward-looking politics

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

Landing only months before the US midterm elections, it’s impossible not to understand the show foremost in the context of the Trumps and Kushners of the world

There are perils in deploying bigotry to score political points, but meanings also shift from West to East

Trump’s State Department is more than 3 months late in announcing its national pavilion – testament to the chaos engulfing the administration

‘You can’t reason with him but you can ridicule him’ – lightweight as it is, Trump Baby is a win for art as a legitimate form of protest

Artists including Marilyn Minter and Richard Prince join professional organizations in criticism, following the Supreme Court upholding the policy

The Twin Peaks director says earlier claim that Trump ‘could go down as one of the greatest presidents’ is being taken out of context

In other news: gallerist arrested in Purdue Pharma demo; artists protest Trump’s child separation policy with ‘We make kids disappear’ billboard