News

In further news: British Council condemns curator’s imprisonment in Iran; Australia’s first gallery showing all women artists set to open

Associated with Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, Potsdam’s Garrison Church is a ‘symbol of unity between the church, state and military’

In further news: UK museum under fire for using facial-recognition surveillance; ‘Maus’ author Art Spiegelman says Marvel censored Trump criticism

More than 100 objects were discovered by archaeologists investigating the ancient Roman site

An Instagram user documented the artwork being whisked away as Typhoon Krosa approached Japan’s Naoshima island

In further news: Estate claims Robert Indiana spent last years ‘in squalor’; original sketches discovered beneath Leonardo’s ‘Virgin of the Rocks’

In further news: London mayor backs proposal for new slavery museum to fight racism; fire at Singapore Art Museum

The author of ‘Beloved’ and Nobel Laureate was a leading light of US literary life in her work as an editor and writer

In further news: Steve McQueen’s school photographs to take over London billboards; censorship at Japan’s Aichi Triennale

The six-year-old boy, tossed from the London gallery’s viewing platform, is in a critical condition

In further news: Baltimore Museum of Art announces year of exhibitions devoted to women artists; Apple launches series of AR art walks

The cultural sector is twice as white as the city

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

The drawing of a nude model by the Austrian Expressionist belongs to a series of 22 other works 

In further news: V&A acquires Extinction Rebellion artefacts; Baltimore Museum of Art launches Matisse research centre

In further news: Nicky Morgan, who once suggested the arts ‘held back’ pupils, is appointed UK culture secretary

Kanders’s decision to step down follows months of protests over his ownership of weapons manufacturer Safariland

The study follows art lessons and trips to museums becoming available as NHS prescription options

As Johnson becomes prime minister, a new open letter from the Creative Industries Federation has urged him to support the arts

In further news: Marisa Merz (1926-2019); and artists withdraw from Whitney Biennial