A few photographs from the artist’s famed “Kitchen Table Series” appear in a new video promoting the vice president’s campaign

What is at stake for the US cultural sector as the nation chooses its next president? Plus, a tour of 14th-century Sienese masterpieces and a conversation with Goliath about her ongoing video series Mango Blossoms

One of the murals, in Durham, North Carolina, brought together Fairey, cultural organiser Wyatt Closs, gallery owner Linda Shropshire and the local community

The touring exhibition “Reproductive: Health, Fertility, Agency” features works that unflinchingly address infringements on bodily autonomy; its run has been cut short after a university gallery withdrew from its leg of the tour

It's the highest honour awarded by the US federal government to artists in a wide range of disciplines and art patrons

Walker has led the New York-based Ford Foundation for the past 11 years

Focusing on works by artists with ties to the American South, “Is It Real?” raises awareness and funds for reproductive rights for communities on the front lines

A New York-based organisation had sought to block the artefacts’ return to Nigeria

The campaign, organised by the non-profit People For the American Way, includes images by Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Kass, Alyson Shotz, Christine Sun Kim, Hank Willis Thomas and others

Jeff Koons, Kara Walker, Jenny Holzer, Jasper Johns, Amy Sherald and many others are offering works through the Artists for Kamala fundraising sale and auction

A recent investigation found that Eric Adams’s office was involved in the scheme to mount a show about Sun Yat-sen with just one month’s notice

Dimitri Simes and his wife Anastasia have been charged with three counts of violating US sanctions, including money laundering through the acquisition of art

The project “Body Freedom for Every(body)” will spend the next three months touring the country in a truck emblazoned with Barbara Kruger’s famous message: “Your Body is a Battleground”

Neither major party has a clear policy on art and culture, but the candidates' past actions offer hints at their priorities

Leaders in the arts including Megan Beyer and Maxwell L. Anderson, as well as artists like Petah Coyne and Eric Fischl, articulate their hopes for the next administration's cultural policies

Since Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, much of the US art world has embraced Harris. Meanwhile, conservative patrons remain split on the Republican candidate, former president Donald Trump

Breon’s free installation is one of several activations coinciding with the convention in the city that are co-organised by For Freedoms, the artist-led civic engagement group

The American artist Shepard Fairey, meanwhile, has released a print of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris

A lawyer from Florida drove to San Antonio, Texas, in an apparent attempt to destroy a 21ft-tall sculpture critiquing the Chinese Communist Party

In a Washington Post op-ed, the artist wrote she wants to leave the sculpture damaged to show the “fissures in our country”

The city council in Lubbock, Texas voted last week to cut $30,000 in grant money to a free monthly art walk

Next Stop: Chicago will focus on infrastructure inequality after Covid

Evan Vucci’s instinctive composition recalls some famous art of the past, but its real importance may only be felt in the future

Mayor Eric Adams and the city council restored $53m in funding for public programming last month

Ari Emanuel is the latest important Democratic donor to criticise Biden since his age and mental fitness were called into question during a debate against Donald Trump

"We were long a society of fun and sun, but we’re no longer that—we don’t want that," he said.

The museum recently purchased the 1840s daguerreotype of Dolley Madison at auction

The mayor of Jersey City says the move to scuttle the Paris museum's first US location was politically motivated

The $112.4bn municipal budget for the coming fiscal year also restored $58m in critical funding for the city’s three library systems

The artist Sandy Williams IV’s wax replica of the Lincoln Memorial melted during the East Coast heat wave