Censorship and the risk of conscription have forced many artists to flee the country—and face under-representation abroad

Israeli strikes across southern and eastern Lebanon have damaged and threatened several important monuments, while Baalbek remains in peril

As Israel continues its offensive against Hezbollah, ‘art spaces allow people to escape’, says the gallery founder Saleh Barakat

Looting by armed groups has been reported at institutions in Sudan, including the National Museum

The prominent Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan described her as “very young, sincere and gifted," adding: "There is no explanation for this. And there is no forgiveness either”

Emergency repairs at 11th-century fortress offer a ray of hope in country where dozens of historic sites are damaged or destroyed

Pavel Otdelnov's show at the Old Waiting Room in south London aims to “discover the origins of the catastrophe unfolding before our eyes today”

A thought-provoking exhibition of work by the late photojournalist the Imperial War Museum

The war in Gaza has resulted in catastrophic human losses. Behind the statistics lie the lives of individuals who have worked to preserve the exclave’s precious and often ignored heritage sites

The artist-activist defends free speech in a lengthy response, but says that the gallery’s decision is “for his own well-being”

Two artists, Heba Zagout and Muhammed Sami Qariqa, are among the nearly 4,000 Gazans who have died in the escalating conflict

Amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv’s Saint Sophia Cathedral, the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and the historic centre of Lviv join Odesa on Unesco’s endangered list

Landmark site was the burial place of Prince Grigory Potemkin, whose bones were removed by Russian occupying forces last year

New report finds that, unlike journalists, artists are often "in the dark" about the organisations they can turn to when their rights are threatened

German government’s visa admissions programme is abruptly suspended, leaving desperate applicants in limbo

Leading artists and museum professionals raise fears as violence erupts in Khartoum

Physical copies of some of the top secret US diplomatic cables leaked by Assange will be on show

The Art Newspaper probes the complex issues arising from the removal of the Kherson Museum’s collection, sent to Crimea for “safekeeping”

Georgia has become a major centre of refuge for Russians who oppose the war

Images show disappearance of churches and cemeteries in the Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhchivan regions at the centre of the largely ignored conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan

The Ukraine territory is one of four illegally annexed on 30 September with decrees by Russian President Vladimir Putin

Dozens of contemporary art shows have been forced to close since the outset of the war with Ukraine—but this one was meant to serve Putinist propaganda

Available on the Google Arts & Culture platform, the project is the result of a year-long series of workshops in northern Iraq

Culture will be central to the country's recovery—enabling people to process trauma, share a common identity and articulate shared experiences

Ukrainian culture minister Oleksandr Tkachenko says buildings have been damaged including the Khanenko Art Museum and the Kyiv Art Gallery

Dating from the ninth to the 13th century, the stelae were once considered sacred

Putin’s international cultural envoy, Mikhail Shvydkoy, says Poland’s request has no legal grounds

The International Council of Museums says revised protocol will allow it to more readily “address conflicts”—and could lead to the expulsion of Russia from the organisation

Artists Raed Mutar and Sajjad Abbas protested against the inclusion of Jean-Jacques Lebel's work and have moved their own pieces

Artist Ahmed Jahaf speaks out about how the world continues to ignore the crisis in his home country