Rubens Oil Sketch: DCMS Export Ban Aims To Save Masterpiece For The Nation
A rare oil sketch by Peter Paul Rubens, Cimon Falling in Love with Efigenia (c. 1616–17), now faces an export bar in a bid to retain the work for the UK….
17 June 2025
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Arts In the UK Generate £140 billion In Revenue Reveals DCMS
People across the United Kingdom are deeply connected to the arts, as evidenced by the findings of a 2023 survey… Read More
6 December 2023
Giacometti Bronze Chandelier Export Bar Placed By DCMS
An export bar has been placed on a £2.9 million chandelier by the Swiss/French artist Alberto Giacometti. This will allow time for a UK institution to acquire the work.
18 July 2023
Banksy Spraycation Mural Sells For $2m – John Sainsbury Art Patron Dies – DCMS £30m Emergency Support For Culture
Banksy Spraycation Mural Sells Privately – John Sainsbury Art Patron Dies – DCMS £30m Emergency Support For Culture
17 January 2022
DCMS Reports £92bn Sector Bonanza For Creative Industries, Digital and Sport
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has just released a report stating that the sector’s contribution to the economy is up by 3.6 percent year-on-year to almost £250bn, accounting for 14.2 percent of the UK’s Gross Value Added (GVA)
3 December 2017
Oscar Rejlander Photographic Album Receives Temporary DCMS Export Bar
A temporary export bar has been placed on an important album of portrait and figurative photographs by the ‘Father of… Read More
26 February 2015
UK’s Creative Industries Worth £76.9b To Economy 2014 DCMS Figures Reveal
Brand new figures published by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport have revealed that the UK’s Creative Industries are… Read More
1 February 2015
DCMS Announces 8% Cut In Arts Spending For 2015-2016
The (DCMS) Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced an 8% cut in spending for the period 2015-2016. The… Read More
14 June 2013
DCMS Will Continue Funding The Horniman And Geffrye Museums
The DCMS has announced that the Horniman and Geffrye Museums will stay under the DCMS umbrella and that the London… Read More
27 January 2013
DCMS – Museums Need To Get Better At Asking For Money
The head of philanthropy and fundraising at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in England and the UK,… Read More
19 November 2012
Smoke Clears: British Museum Ends Tobacco Sponsorship Deal
The British Museum has quietly stamped out its long-running tobacco sponsorship deal — a partnership that always sat awkwardly in its portfolio of advertisers….
25 November 2025
Is Arts Council England About To Be Put Out To Pasture?
Rumblings around Whitehall suggest that Arts Council England (ACE) may be about to lose one of its most fundamental powers….
25 September 2025
Tate Liverpool: Waterside Transformation Backed By Major Funding Injection
Liverpool’s cultural landscape is set for a dramatic change as Tate secures £12 million in government funding alongside major private donations for its landmark redevelopment…..
9 June 2025
UK Extends Tax Relief For Art Imports To Revive Ailing Market
In order to bolster the struggling British art economy, the UK Treasury has extended the window for fine art and… Read More
13 March 2025
Denzil Forrester Wins Prestigious Robson Orr TenTen Award 2024
The British artist Denzil Forrester has been named the recipient of the prestigious Robson Orr TenTen Award for 2024, as… Read More
8 October 2024
Christie’s Downturn: Auction House Bites The Bullet With £2.2b Sales Drop
In Christie’s year-end review, CEO Guillaume Cerutti characterised 2023 as a “paradoxical year,” acknowledging challenges like the art market contraction…. Read More
19 December 2023
Problematic Public Statues Post The Edward Colston Felling – Richard Stone
In 2020, I wrote an article: ‘The Trouble with Problematic Public Statues’, sparked by the felling of slave trader Edward Colston’s effigy in Bristol.
11 October 2023
Frieze London: Flashback To A Quaint Bygone Era – Hitler Painting To Be Destroyed On Channel 4 – Give The Parthenon Marbles Back – Lord Vaizey
Frieze London: Flashback To A Quaint Bygone Era – Hitler Painting To Be Destroyed On Channel 4 – Give The Parthenon Marbles Back – Lord Vaizey
13 October 2022
Should The V&A Close Their Fabergé Egg Exhibition – Tate And RA Sever Relations With Russian Billionaires – Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams Cancel Russian Art Sales
Whenever you hear the name Fabergé, you think of opulent, lavish, jewelled, decorated, and, let’s face it, kitsch, Russian Imperial… Read More
16 March 2022
UK Export Ban For 17th Century Multiracial Painting Of Two Ladies – PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri Voted Colour Of The Year 2022 – Important Hepworth Donation
UK Export Ban For 17th Century Multiracial Painting – PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri Voted Colour Of The Year 2022 – Hepworth Donation
13 December 2021
Rubens’ Samson and Delilah Masterpiece Is A Fake – Autumn Budget Arts To Receive £850m – Glasgow COP26 Indestructible Language Art Installation
Rubens Samson and Delilah Is A Fake – Autumn Budget Arts Allocated £850m – Glasgow COP26 Indestructible Language Art Installation
28 October 2021
Arts Renewal Taskforce Announced By Culture Secretary
The Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has today announced representatives from the arts, cultural and sporting worlds who will join a new task force aimed at helping Arts renewal by getting the country’s recreation and leisure sector up and running again.
21 May 2020
Arts Council England Promises Arts Support But Warns Of Closures
Arts Council England has released a statement outlining support for the arts during the COVID 19 crisis. In a statement released today (Sunday 15 March) the organisation is spearheading a programme of support.
15 March 2020
Export Ban For Joseph Wright Of Derby Two Boys With A Bladder
An export bar on Joseph Wright of Derby’s ‘Two Boys with a Bladder’ has been placed on the recommendation of Arts Minister Helen Whately. The work, completed between 1768 and 1770, is valued at £3,500,000 is at risk of being lost abroad unless a UK buyer can be found.
21 October 2019
Art Accepted For Nation Through Cultural Gifts Scheme Down By A Third
Arts Council England has published the 2017/18 Cultural Gifts Scheme and Acceptance in Lieu annual report which shows that in the last year, 42 cases
14 December 2018
National Portrait Gallery To Exhibit Works Regionally Associated With Sitters
The National Portrait Gallery, London has announced Coming Home, a simple but powerful idea that will see the NPG lend 50 of their most beloved portraits to places across the country closely associated with that of the sitters.
25 July 2018
Government Earmarks £20m For Culture and Creative Industries In England
Arts Minister Michael Ellis has launched a £20 million fund aimed at helping culture, heritage and the creative industries to benefit towns and cities across England.
21 June 2018
Sir Joshua Reynolds’ Omai To Star In Rijksmuseum High Society Exhibition
The DCMS has granted a temporary UK export licence for Sir Joshua Reynolds’ painting of Omai to travel to Amsterdam to be exhibited in the highly anticipated ‘High Society’ exhibition at the Rijksmuseum.
26 February 2018
JMW Turner Masterpiece: Temporary Export Bar Provides Time To Find UK Buyer
Michael Ellis the Arts Minister has placed a temporary export bar on Ehrenbreitstein, a painting by JMW Turner, to provide an opportunity to keep it in the country. The painting is at risk of being exported from the UK unless a buyer can be found to match the asking price of £18,533,750 (plus VAT of £306,750).
1 February 2018
Exposed: Institutional Male Bias In Official UK Government Art Collection
Kevin Brennan, the shadow arts minister, has revealed that there is an ‘Institutional’ male bias in the government’s art collection. He pointed out that only a quarter of works acquired by the government in the last five years are by female artists.
7 January 2018
Top Art News Stories Featured On Artlyst In 2017
It has been a challenging year in the art world with record auction prices and soaring fair costs.
29 December 2017
Arts Council Publishes 2016/17 In Lieu Cultural Gifts Scheme Annual Report
The Arts Council has published its 2016/17 Cultural Gifts Scheme and Acceptance in Lieu annual report.
23 December 2017