After a successful campaign to help block the far-right National Rally from winning a majority, arts bodies, much like the rest of the country, face an uncertain future

After a landslide victory for the Labour party, we asked museum directors, artists and art historians what they hoped the new political era could mean for culture

The former director of the National Gallery quits after “catastrophic” exit of Anastasia Tennant, the Arts Council’s senior policy adviser on cultural property

Four new museums across the country are planned over the next five years and a new cultural quarter is under construction in the biggest city, Cotonou

Research by the Runnymede Trust found that only 2.3% of artists named in GCSE Art papers over the last five years were Black or Asian

Mary Archer to try and identify how arm’s length funding body can make 5% saving

The head of the opposition party was speaking at the Labour Creatives Conference in London

Museums and Galleries Exhibitions Tax Relief has been made permanent in this year's spring statement

The public body “will not remove or refuse funding” over political work, it has confirmed following backlash

Ikon contemporary art gallery among organisations at risk

Senator Joe Chialo says he is responding to criticism that the clause restricted the freedom of art

Official photograph by Hugo Burnand depicts monarch in full military regalia and will be offered to every UK public body in £8m scheme

The Florence museum chief has been named director of Naples's Capodimonte with new leaders also appointed in Milan and Rome as part of right-wing government strategy

Investigation by Italy’s broadcaster about the whereabouts of art from the late industrialist’s collection has revealed apparent widespread failure to enforce country’s cultural export rules

Publication examines how the conservative Middle Eastern state is pouring resources into its culture sector

The snub comes after Kyriakos Mitsotakis raised restitution issue with Labour leader Keir Starmer

Partnership with Greece reportedly backed by Labour leader Keir Starmer

Images of a care home in Manila by Hannah Reyes Morales fell foul of right-wing lawmakers

Government strategy underscores controversial monuments should stay in place, a move criticised by some culture professionals

MEPs back new support measures for creatives following Spain's Statute of the Artist decree, now in political limbo

The UK county faces pressure to find £86m in savings

Artists, poets and writers will also respond to statues of William Beckford and Sir John Cass following the introduction of the UK's "retain and explain" policy

Claudia Roth says the commission’s current mandate is “inadequate” and “we are not living up to our responsibilities"

Creative arts will be at the core of school curriculums, she pledged

Campaign groups say move is ‘as inexplicable as it is disgraceful’

Previously free, a standard tourist ticket to the ancient site now costs €5

The Rijksmuseum will return six colonial artefacts, for the first time in its history

Admission will be raised by €1 to support relief efforts in the affected Emilia-Romagna region

Audrey Azoulay met President Zelensky and toured sites in Kyiv, Chernihiv and Odesa during an official visit to the country this week

Nigeria’s art market has exploded in recent years—a newly elected government may now fund and build a museum sector