Tributes pour in as the death is announced, age 86, of the inspirational writer, poet and activist. Here she is reciting one of her best known works 'And Still I Rise'
The chief curator of northeastern Brazil's Bahia Bienal, Marcelo Rezende, talks censorship, counter-discourse, decentralisation and why the Bienal is returning for its third edition after a gap of 46 years
Justice Bonnie G. Wittner of Manhattan's State Supreme Court has sentenced pastor Kevin Sutherland to six months in jail for trying to sell a Damien Hirst painting he had been told could not be authenticated
Singaporean artist Lee Wen, best known for his peformance persona as 'Yellow Man', was treated in hospital after being found unconscious, with facial injuries, in a bathroom at Hong Kong's City University