The right-wing politician, who appeared on the TV programme I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, replaces Oliver Dowden

Covid impact on commercial income has led to cost cutting, organisation says

Work left inside the British embassy will be protected, vow Taliban insurgents

Turkish authorities behind the legal saga have been criticised by the European Court of Human Rights

UK government agrees that new regime must "safeguard the full diversity of Afghan culture"

"Art is essential to the growth of this country," say 300 art world figures and academics in open letter

Independence of museums and heritage bodies is at risk, say Ed Vaizey and Chris Smith, as Johnson’s government pushes ‘anti-woke’ agenda

Deputies rejected senators' proposal for a national council to advise the government on future restitution claims

Will artists and institutions participate in “national celebration” planned for 2022?

Although Tory announcement calls it the “largest cultural capital programme in a century”, pledge is only quarter of Labour’s £1bn culture fund

Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats commit to stopping Brexit and protecting arts funding through the National Lottery

Artists and institutions come out in support of protestors who are demanding political reforms in Lebanon

Remain campaigner has said that schoolchildren who focus on arts and humanities are limiting their career choices

Protests against the right-wing group’s takeover of a 13th-century cloister are growing

Artists voice concern for Hong Kong’s artistic landscape amid so-called “mainlandification” of the SAR

Alexander Khochinsky’s lawyer calls the country’s actions over a €10,000 looted painting “aggressive and disproportionate” and says his client will not get a fair trial in the “illiberal democracy”

Arts Council England publishes advice on movement of art, imports and exports, funding, and travel for artists and professionals in case an agreement is not reached

The departments of culture, sports and social development have merged

A new report on the status of African objects in French museums will urge the president to return works taken “without consent” in the colonial period

Leading UK names have signed an open letter raising concerns about human rights in Bangladesh

Kochi Biennale organisers condemn “state-sanctioned violence” while Indian artists pledge to “shame the Bangladeshi authorities”

Activist is detained and charged after commenting on student protests in Dhaka

After offering to return a work looted by the Nazis in exchange for his family’s former real estate, Khochinsky was placed under house arrest in New York and faced a 10-year prison sentence in Poland

France's latest deal with the Kingdom reveals the close connection between culture and foreign affairs

We exclusively reveal the details of the plans for a “historic” collaboration

The country is due to sign a massive contract with the kingdom to turn Mada’in Saleh and the Al-Ula region into a cultural tourism destination

The splendid Nabatean site of Mada’in Saleh may be opened to tourists

The French leader’s announcement in Burkina Faso is hailed as historic—but gets a mixed response

The artist Hew Locke says a creative response to memorials dedicated to slave owners and empire builders can reveal hidden histories

Chairman of the Anadolu Kültür centre, who is outspoken critic of Turkish president, was detained at Istanbul airport