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The National Rifle Association have removed an image of the artist’s sculpture from a promotional video after he sued

For a minimum donation, buyers can win the street artist’s overloaded boat by guessing its weight

The artist used her acceptance speech to emphasize the importance of public funding for the arts

Bruguera was one of a number of artists protesting the controversial Decree 349 which critics say will censor and limit artistic freedom

Siegel will divide her time between New York, Berlin and London, leading on frieze’s print and digital publishing

‘To remain silent is to be complicit’: more than 100 staff have demanded the museum clarify its policy on trustee participation

The inquiry into the arts sector’s ‘class ceiling’ follows renewed concern around diversity and exclusion

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Quai Branly president says that the study commissioned by Macron ‘puts historical reparations over museums’s contribution’

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The French president has acted swiftly following a landmark study on the ownership of African treasures

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition of iconic rock instruments has been criticized for only including one woman

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Evidence suggests that social stratification in UK arts participation is caused by imbalance between funding priorities and public taste

‘We are just a body. You, the British people, have our soul’

Twitter users have been quick to think of alternative nicknames, including ‘the cotton bud’ and ‘the tadpole’

Zoe Leonard’s landmark poem revived following US midterms, Turkish arts workers arrested and union protests at MoMA PS1

A Picasso, snatched from Rotterdam’s Kunsthal Museum in 2012 in ‘the theft of the century’, has been revived in an elaborate hoax

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