The artist-activist collective Godzilla withdrew from a May retrospective at the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), citing the New York museum’s “complicity” in the city’s plan to build four new jails.

Ahead of a massive march for International Women’s Day, activists painted the names of femicide victims on fencing surrounding Mexico’s presidential palace. The makeshift mural also included messages like “Trans women are part of my struggle” and “Legal abortion now.”

A sculpture of a Hindu deity has been repatriated to Nepal after it was looted from a Kathmandu Valley temple in the 1980s and exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA).

Artwork by Egon Schiele and Erich Heckel will be returned to the heirs of their former Jewish owners at the suggestion of Germany’s advisory commission on Nazi-looted art.

President Biden’s recently passed COVID stimulus bill includes $470 million for arts and culture relief; the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will each receive $135 million.

US Capitol curators have requested $25,000 to repair art damaged when pro-Trump rioters stormed the government building on January 6.

As market demand for NFT art increases, recently peaking with the recent sale of a Beeple NFT for $69 million, so do questions about the carbon footprint of non-fungible tokens, which exist on the energy-costly Ethereum blockchain.

Archaeologists discovered a one-of-a-kind chariot near Pompeii, which had lain undisturbed in a sheltered portico obscured by deposits of ash from Mount Vesuvius’s explosion in 79 CE.