Creative UK Unveils Manifesto Ahead of UK General Election
Creative UK has launched a comprehensive manifesto outlining critical priorities for the Cultural and Creative Industries in the lead-up to the UK General Election.
22 April 2024
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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
Ed Vaizey Hails Record Year For UK Creative Industries
2014 has been another incredible year for the UK’s creative industries. Data shows records being broken in visual art, and… Read More
30 December 2014
UK Creative Industries Out Perform Financial Services In £71.4bn Bumper Year
This week official statistics were published by the DCMS revealing that the UK’s creative industries are now worth £71.4 billion… Read More
19 January 2014
UK’s First Colour Awards Celebrates Creative Colour In The Arts
London-based Graphic artist Sam Coldy has taken home a gong at the first ever Dulux Let’s Colour Awards for his… Read More
7 March 2013
UK Museums Banned From Imposing Reproduction Fees After 70 Years
In a groundbreaking verdict, the Court of Appeal has ushered in a significant transformation in the practices of UK museums concerning charging fees for reproducing historic artworks.
22 January 2024
AI Art: Leading UK Artists Call For Legal Action and Regulation
The intersection of art and artificial intelligence has recently taken a contentious turn, with thousands of British artists….
21 January 2024
Russian Cyber Attack Halts Banksy’s Ukraine Charity Sale – Pussy Riot Scatters Putin’s Ashes – Art Night Moves To Dundee
Russian Cyber Attack Halts Banksy’s Ukraine Charity Sale – Pussy Riot Scatters Putin’s Ashes – Art Night Moves To Dundee
12 January 2023
Meta Open Arts Unveil London Artworks – Michelle Donelan Is The New UK Culture Secretary – Olafur Eliasson New Online VR and NFT
Meta Open Arts have unveiled newly commissioned artworks for Meta’s recently opened London King’s Cross offices. Last month Meta revealed… Read More
7 September 2022
UNESCO Condemns 53 Ukraine Cultural Sites Damaged In Russia Invasion
UNESCO, the international body that assesses damages to cultural sites during crisis, has reported that 53 sites of international importance… Read More
3 April 2022
UK Tax Authorities Probe NFT Fraud – Tate Decision On Racist Rex Whistler Mural – Jeff Koons Designs $360k BMW Supercar
UK tax authorities have seized three Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) as part of a probe into a suspected VAT fraud involving… Read More
17 February 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
Etel Adnan Lebanese Born Female Abstractionist Dies Age 96 – John Singer Sargent Painting At Risk Of Leaving UK – Anish Kapoor To Exhibit At Gallerie dell’Accademia In Venice
Artist Etel Adnan Dies – John Singer Sargent Painting At Risk – Anish Kapoor To Exhibit At Gallerie dell’Accademia In Venice
15 November 2021
Art Night 2021 Announces UK Wide Fifth Edition Programme
Art Night, London’s favourite contemporary art festival, will celebrate its fifth edition by taking place in locations across the United Kingdom for the first time this summer.
6 April 2021
Signed Decourt Painting Discovered – TEFAF Maastricht 2021 Dates – Largest UK Art Exhibition Announced
Signed Decourt Painting Discovered – TEFAF Maastricht 2021 Dates – Largest UK Art Exhibition Announced
28 January 2021
London Museums and Galleries To Close Throughout The Holiday Period – England’s Creative Coast 2021 – Korros Ensemble Cheer
Just in from Tate. From tomorrow, Tate Modern and Tate Britain will close temporarily in line with government guidance.
15 December 2020
Jude Cowan Montague: Graphic Storytellers/Comic Creatives in Conversation with Pauline Sewards
Pauline Sewards is a guest interviewer for Artlyst. In this enlightening interview, she speaks with writer, journalist, poet, musician and visual artist Jude Cowan Montague about her new graphic novel ‘Love on the Isle of Dogs’
12 November 2020
Rachael Ball: Graphic Storytellers/Comic Creatives in Conversation with Jude Cowan Montague
My latest conversation is with the graphic novelist Rachael Ball. She is an inspiring educator and an incredible visual storyteller, excellent at representing inner lives and tying it into a naturalistic narrative told in a comic book world.
14 September 2020
Mark Stafford: Graphic Storytellers/Comic Creatives in Conversation with Jude Cowan Montague
The third piece in a series of conversations with new graphic novelists and comic artists explores Mark Stafford
22 August 2020
£1.57B UK Government Rescue Package Announced To Prop Up Culture
Future of Britain’s museums, galleries, theatres, independent cinemas, heritage sites and music venues will be helped with emergency grants and loans. Funding will also be provided to restart construction work at cultural and heritage sites paused as a result of the pandemic.
6 July 2020
UK Museums And Galleries May Reopen From 4 July
Museums and galleries will be allowed to reopen in England from 4 July. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced measures easing the coronavirus restrictions in place since March.
23 June 2020
London’s New Art Scene Creative Britain 1962-68 – Edward Lucie-Smith
Here’s a handsome new volume, well-illustrated, but more social history than art book, which tells of the emergence of London as an international art scene, during the years that followed World War II.
30 April 2020
Cass Art Shuts All UK Shops
Cass Art has shut all of their stores leaving artists to scramble for supplies. All professionals and students looking to stock up on materials are now being referred to the Cass website to purchase items for home delivery.
23 March 2020
Ulay: Marina Abramović Creative Collaborator Dies
Frank Uwe Laysiepen, AKA Ulay, Conceptual artist and long-term creative partner of Marina Abramović, has died age 76. Born in Germany and based in Ljubljana since 2009.
2 March 2020
Ten UK Exhibitions You Should Have Seen In 2019 – Edward Lucie-Smith
From a critic’s point of view, It is pretty difficult, to sum up, the year 2019. It was, for example, a year when greater and greater emphasis was placed on doing full justice to women artists.
18 December 2019
UK Still Top Country For Art Students In Europe
Cass Art has produced an analysis of the top locations for art schools and has revealed it’s right here in the UK. The art supplies chain has analysed over 100 cities around the world that are home to the world’s top art universities to discover which location is the best to be an art student.
4 December 2019
Victor Willing: Two New UK Exhibitions Celebrate His Life And Career
Two new exhibitions of work by the highly regarded painter Victor Willing (1928-1988) are currently on display at Hastings Contemporary and the Turps Gallery in S.E. London. The retrospective in Hastings is the first significant show of his work since his untimely death from multiple sclerosis in 1988.
12 November 2019
UK Museums Now Protected From Court-Ordered Seizure For Loaned Artworks
UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright has vowed to protect objects on loan from abroad in temporary exhibitions in UK museums from seizure by the UK courts.
17 June 2019
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Announces Awards To UK Visual Artists And Composers
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation have unveiled the Ten visual artists and composers living and working in the UK who will each receive £60,000 with no strings attached, making this the largest and most flexible award for individual artists in the UK.
20 November 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
Christo Launches Mastaba His First UK Public Artwork
To coincide with a new exhibition of Christo and Jeanne Claude, at the Serpentine Gallery, the 83 year old artist has launched his amazing London Mastaba, a temporary sculpture in Hyde Park
18 June 2018
Journaling In Pregnancy: Maternal Mental Health Improved By Creative Activities
There is growing recognition of the serious nature of maternal mental health problems during childbirth
24 February 2018