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Regional institutions suffer major losses to their endowments, as artists look to emergency grant programmes and New York State considers a rent suspension

Peter Meijer called the performers ‘special souls’ who needed to be ‘protected’

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

The artist represents the US at this year’s Venice Biennale

The veteran New York gallerist pleaded guilty to two counts of tax evasion last year

Narrative is often the conduit for racist ideology, particularly in a Hollywood that favours ‘feel good’ narratives of black life; avoiding it altogether reads, then, like a protest

Recent studies highlight deep precarity in the art world, alongside a renewed push for fairer payment and resistance to ‘self-exploitation’

Federal museums ensure that art is not merely the purview of the leisured class; the impasse is an abdication of that responsibility

‘Behind the facade of success and strength lies a fragile and, at times, broken individual’, her lawyers write

Black Lives Matter Arts+Culture has been launched in a bid to promote African American artists ‘changing the world’

Artist collective For Freedoms’s campaign draws attention to issues of diversity and civic responsibility in the election run-up

A New York federal judge has rejected Lamar partial summary judgement in the case

Hank Willis Thomas’s For Freedoms platform hopes to foster civic engagement with the ‘largest creative collaboration in US history’

The Long Island house’s basement studio will be transformed into an ‘interactive and creative space’

‘The demand to be paid is a political one,’ says campaigning organization W.A.G.E.

A new survey of higher education degrees in the US says that fine art is the least valuable subject to specialize in

After months of speculation, Puryear has been chosen for the US pavilion, organized by the Madison Square Park Conservancy

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

The agency has accidentally printed the ‘more feminine’ Las Vegas version of the iconic statue on billions of stamps since 2010