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After winning 43.8% of the vote, the far-right party wants public funding to promote German identity. Cultural institutions warn its plans could subordinate artistic freedom to political ideology

Before artists could respond to 9/11, images of the event had already circled the world. Twenty-five years later, art still struggles to represent a uniquely cinematic catastrophe, one experienced and understood largely through its visual record

Igor Tulchinsky is helping fund one of the British Museum’s biggest ever exhibitions. But he has also reportedly recruited a former Israel Defense Forces major general to lead an Israeli venture capital operation whose investments include "deep-tech" defence technologies

Art history has often treated tenderness and pleasure as trivial. A new Louvre-Lens exhibition argues that cuteness deserves closer attention, not least for the possessiveness and power it can conceal

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) scrutinises the UK’s public finances independently. Should culture and the creative industries have something similar – an OBR capable of looking beyond the immediate political horizon?

A pavilion bringing together Russian and Ukrainian artists opposing war and repression opened in Venice under police protection. An anonymous incident inside the exhibition showed why concerns over security were difficult to ignore

The London gallery will stage the late Norman Hyams’ first international exhibition on the Greek island that inspired his final paintings, marking the start of a new site-responsive programme beyond the UK

A major new report argues that shrinking budgets and commercial pressures have left museum storage at breaking point, threatening the long-term care of Britain’s collections

For the first time, a British prime minister has publicly backed returning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece. But Andy Burnham’s historic break with political orthodoxy may prove easier to declare than deliver. Can he break the deadlock?

After decades of myth and mystery, a monumental celestial observatory is finally nearing completion – but who will actually see it? Gabriella Angeleti reports for her column ‘Private Views’

As Andy Burnham pledges to implement the long-awaited Hillsborough Law, Joe Ware asks: what could a legal responsibility to tell the truth mean for arts institutions?

The Russian performance artist argues that France is seeking to strip his refugee status for the same politically charged practice that forced him to flee Russia