A look at the most representative issues affecting artistic freedom in the first year of the Trump administration.

Metropolitan Museum of Art will not remove Balthus’ controversial 1938 painting “Thérèse Dreaming” despite an online petition calling for its removal.

A swift US government policy change states that it now owns the art created by Guantánamo detainees and has the legal right to do with it what they wish.

Marco Alvarado’s exhibition at the Museum of Las Conceptas in Cuenca was closed three months earlier than planned due to complaints from religious groups.

The use of tax incentive mechanisms in order to guarantee and encourage cultural freedom of expression has become challenging in Brazil’s cultural sector.

Little Rock city officials attempted to cancel a hip hop concert after police alerted them of gun violence following two of the rapper’s previous concerts.

Canadian immigration authorities denied travel visas to two Iranian actresses who were set to attend a film festival where their movie was being screened.

Santander Bank’s cultural centre closed an art exhibition a month ahead of schedule after heavy criticism that works allegedly alluded to taboo topics.

The Guggenheim Museum decided to pull three major works from an exhibition after animal-rights activists pressured the venue.

At least 50 people have been killed and more than 200 people have been injured after a gunman opened fire into the crowd of a music festival in Las Vegas.