The death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny last month, after years of confinement in a Siberian jail, and subsequent quelling of protest, emphasised the flourishing of censorship across a globe riven by geopolitical crises, in a year when democracy is put to the test in more than 70 countries. With the threat of electoral misinformation being boosted by AI-generated content and social media algorithms, artists have been warning of new kinds of censorship. The effect is being felt in real life, online and in social media

The artist also discusses her “meditation on death”, a film shot around and above Hart Island in the US

Since the passage of the country’s repressive Decree 349, the state has gone to great lengths to silence critical voices—but artists refuse to be silenced

The podcast’s host, curator Helen Molesworth, discusses Mendieta’s work, life and death—and what at times resembles an art-world cover-up

The artist commemorates the anonymous victims of Covid-19 buried on Hart Island

Amid calls to boycott the Havana Biennial, artists and dealers are using Miami Art Week as a bullhorn

The artist will face a summary trial in ten days while activists say the arrest amounts to "state terrorism"

As the cultural event gets under way, a Cuban-American artist is also blocked from entering Cuba