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

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

The eight art and design colleges closed without warning last September

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee questioned New York art dealer Georges Bergès this week about representing US President Joe Biden’s son

The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will include sites in Mississippi and Illinois

The directors of the Parrish Art Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art and Cincinnati Art Museum are among those Biden has named to the National Museum and Library Services Board

The committee, established in 1958, advises the president on pressing issues in the arts and how federal policies can help shape them

In the waning months of his presidency, Donald Trump’s administration imposed a ban on commissioning abstract or modernist art for federal buildings

Chaco Canyon, a Unesco World Heritage site since 1987, was to be opened to drilling under a Trump administration plan

If Congress approves, the National Endowment for the Arts in particular would see its 2022 budget go up to $201m—the highest amount of government funding since its inception

The all-white all-male board members are believed to have been responsible for a controversial order that mandated a Neoclassical style for all federal buildings, which Biden also revoked

Artistic Freedom Initiative group says the new executive order, overturning Trump's controversial rule, also allows artists to visit home “for the first time in years”

As new US president plans to tackle global warming on "an epic scale", green initiatives such as Galleries Commit are gaining steam

Plus, QAnon's origins in Italian conceptual art and Alphonse Mucha's Slav Epic

The office includes an ode to Roosevelt and a sculpture by the Indigenous artist Allan Houser

The 22-year-old Los Angeles poet was the youngest ever to deliver a recitation on Inauguration Day. Listen to and read her words here

Donald Trump's trade war and 'cold war mentality' led to uncertainty and a fractured relationship

An anonymous left-wing art group known in the 1990s as Luther Blissett are wondering what they have unwittingly helped create

The art world cheered at Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election. But, with a formidable to-do list—not least dealing with the coronavirus pandemic—where will the arts feature on his agenda?

Cassandra Zampini's short film Media Warfare compresses four years of fake news into a harrowing 25-minute survey of America's shattered psyche

From Jules de Balincourt's painting of Kamala Harris to Rania Matar's photograph of Boston celebrations, we look at artists' reactions to Joe Biden's win

Artists, collectors, policy makers and gallery owners share their reactions after the tightly fought election

Plus, artist Pedro Reyes on his New York project; cartoonist Martin Rowson on Hogarth

The Museum of Contemporary Art show aims to “take stock of the work that has come out of this difficult period”, says curator

Ahead of Tuesday’s debate, political action committee Artists United for Change rolled out a new campaign to #VoteThemOut aimed at five battleground states

The Biden-Harris campaign has pledged funding and support for arts and culture as a key policy issue