Protests
Pro-Palestine protests continue at Venice Biennale
One protester was held by police while a "Freedom Boat" attracted hundreds of visitors
'Why destroying art in protest achieves nothing'
Activists’ attacks on artworks do not further their causes—if they did, I would throw the soup myself
Unionised Guggenheim workers stage protests amid contract negotiations
Recent actions in front of and inside the Manhattan museum come as the workers are seeking their second contract since forming a union in 2019
New show in Tbilisi revisits Georgia's Soviet-era as protests against 'foreign agent' law rage across the country
The proposed bill has also been referred to as the 'Russia law'
For many in Israel’s art community, protests have replaced practice
Six months after 7 October, Israeli artists and arts workers remain active in popular movements calling for the release of hostages and ousting of Benjamin Netanyahu
‘MoMA, dump Kravis’: activists call on museum to break up with board chair in Valentine’s Day protest
A coalition of environmental-justice organisations renewed their calls for the removal of board chair Marie-Josée Kravis
Students denounce ‘voyeuristic’ depiction of rape in Gentileschi show
Exhibition in Genoa dedicated to 17th-century painter includes a multimedia installation detailing the artist’s infamous rape by artist Agostino Tasso
Climate activists stage protests at two famous New York museums
Activists with Extinction Rebellion staged protests inside the Guggenheim Museum and the American Museum of Natural History
Protesters calling for ceasefire in Gaza take over base of the Statue of Liberty
Hundreds of protesters affiliated with the group Jewish Voice for Peace staged a sit-in at the National Park Service site
Picketing Picasso: strikes threaten to disrupt Museo Picasso Málaga's 20 year anniversary
Staff will stage protests at the museum over a nine-month long labour dispute which will likely delay the opening of 'The Echo of Picasso', a display of the Spanish artist's work, 50 years after his death
The British Museum and BP's sponsorship deal will end after 27 years
The museum has been under pressure for more than a decade to break off its affiliation with the oil and gas corporation
The Georgian artists at the forefront of anti-government protests
When Georgia’s government tried to impose a Russian-style ‘foreign agent’ law, the cultural community hit back hard
Protests erupt outside Archaeological Museum in Athens as David Chipperfield revamp announced
Riot police watched over crowds at the media launch, attended by the Greek prime minister
Drag queen event at Tate Britain sparks protests between trans-rights activists and right-wing groups
Aida H Dee’s storytelling event disrupted by fighting outside London museum
University exhibition closes after students decry 'racially insensitive' art in MLK Day protest
Artist Dominique Simmons opted to remove her work from an exhibition at Arkansas Tech University after hundreds of students marched in protest against its presence on campus
Museums and heritage in 2022: industrial unrest, climate protests and damage to historic artefacts in Ukraine
New and refurbished museums open in Antwerp, Los Angeles and Sydney as Italian archaeologists make the "discovery of a generation" in a hilltop town in Tuscany
Artist Katharina Grosse calls on Iran to overturn death sentences of LGBTQ activists
Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani and Elham Choubda were sentenced in September for the crime of "corruption on earth through the promotion of homosexuality"
‘We are asking for people to care’: protestors unfurled banners at SFMOMA in support of Iranian uprising
The anonymous group took inspiration from a similar action last month, organised by a different collective, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York
Part-time faculty at New York’s New School university are on strike amid fractious contract negotiations
Part-time faculty at the university, which includes the revered Parsons School of Design, account for roughly 80% of all faculty
Mass protest against Iran's human rights abuses staged at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Protesters gathered at Lacma to mark the Zahedan massacre as well as draw attention to the suppression and imprisonment of protesters and activists
Philadelphia Museum of Art workers reach contract agreement, ending three-week strike
Following two years of negotiations and a historic strike by the museum’s unionised workers, employees and leaders agreed to a contract
Protestors at British Museum demand release of writer imprisoned in Egypt
Plight of British-Egyptian Alaa Abd El-Fattah, currently on hunger strike, is focal point of protest as hieroglyphs exhibition opens
Brooklyn Museum workers rally at open house to call attention to stalled contract negotiations
Unionised workers lined the main entryway to the museum as visitors arrived for after-hours programming
Philadelphia Museum of Art workers hold one-day strike
The strike by unionised employees of the museum was intended to put pressure on the administration amid protracted contract negotiations
After Poussin and Botticelli, UK Parliament is latest eco-activist target
Unesco site is targeted by more than 50 protestors from the group Extinction Rebellion
Sticky fingers: German climate activists strike museums four times in past week
Protestors from the Letzte Generation group have glued themselves to works by Rubens, Poussin and Cranach
Climate activists glue themselves to Botticelli masterpiece in Italy
Officials at the Gallerie degli Uffizi in Florence say that the 15th-century painting was not damaged thanks to protective glass cover
Hundreds demonstrate at Philadelphia Museum of Art as both sides remain 'very far apart' in union contract negotiations
Workers at the museum have been without a contract since forming a union in 2020
Constable painting rehung at National Gallery after protestors glue themselves to frame
The campaign group, Just Stop Oil, has targeted famous works at Kelvingrove, Courtauld and Manchester Art Gallery
Activists glue themselves to painting in Glasgow museum to protest art world's fossil fuel use
Two demonstrators are in police custody after they attached themselves to a 19th-century landscape by Horatio McCulloch at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery