Caravaggio’s Street-Savvy Cupid Makes Its London Debut
The Wallace Collection has secured Victorious Cupid — the brazen, smirking, bare-fleshed Caravaggio masterpiece painted around 1601–02.
17 November 2025
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Tate Employees Vote Overwhelmingly For Week-Long Strike Action
The Tate has been simmering behind the scenes for months, but now it has evolved into a week-long strike that will test both the institution’s resilience and the public’s patience….
14 November 2025
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards £750,000 To 10 UK Artists
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Awards for Artists is a rare beast in the UK: serious money, no strings, and an attitude that suggests artists deserve oxygen rather than more hoops to jump through….
13 November 2025
Castle Howard Wins Top Honours For Restoration Of Its Historic Interiors
Castle Howard, the grand North Yorkshire estate long synonymous with English heritage and cinematic splendour, has scooped two major awards for its ambitious interior restoration project…
13 November 2025
Anish Kapoor Condemns Border Agents Posing By His Bean Sculpture
Anish Kapoor has spent decades wrestling with monumental mirrors, voids, blood-red pigment and the impossible density of Vantablack…
12 November 2025
Martina Holmberg Wins Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2025
The Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize has a knack for capturing the human condition at its most unguarded. This year’s winner…
11 November 2025
Marlene Dumas: First Contemporary Woman Artist Acquired for Louvre Permanent Collection
Marlene Dumas, the Dutch–South African painter, now 71, has become the first contemporary woman artist to join the museum’s permanent collection.
10 November 2025
Arts Return To National Curriculum Ending Fourteen-Year Exile
The Cultural Policy Unit — the small but influential think tank behind much of Labour’s arts agenda — has helped push through…
4 November 2025
Just Stop Oil Activists Cleared Over Stonehenge Protest
This week, three members of Just Stop Oil walked free from Salisbury Crown Court after being cleared of causing a public nuisance for spraying Stonehenge with a harmless orange powder….
3 November 2025
Miami Collectors Gift Works By African And Diaspora Artists To Tate
Miami power collectors Jorge and Darlene Pérez have donated 36 works by artists from Africa and the African diaspora to Tate…
3 November 2025
British Council Considers Handing Over Art Collection To Government
The British Council, Britain’s flagship for cultural diplomacy, is in trouble. Its chief executive, Scott McDonald…
3 November 2025
Paul Gauguin: Final Self Portrait Confirmed Authentic Says Kunstmuseum Basel
The Kunstmuseum Basel has reaffirmed the authenticity of what is believed to be Paul Gauguin’s final self-portrait, Portrait de l’artiste par lui-même….
28 October 2025
King Charles Unveils Bronze LGBTQ+ Armed Forces Memorial
At the National Memorial Arboretum, the King joined veterans, campaigners, and artists for the dedication of Crumpled Letter, the first official LGBT+ Armed Forces memorial…
27 October 2025
Louvre Heist: Paris Police Detain Suspects Over Stolen Crown Jewels
French authorities have now confirmed the arrest of two suspects. One was intercepted at Charles de Gaulle Airport as he prepared to board a flight to Algeria…
26 October 2025
Chris Levine: Portrait Of Late Queen In Court Battle for Authorship
A portrait of the late Queen snapped by Chris Levine, that fetched over £180,000 at a Sotheby’s auction, is in dispute….
24 October 2025
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026 Shortlist Announced
The four artists shortlisted for the 2026 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize have been announced: Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gęsicka, Amak Mahmoodian, and Rene Matić….
21 October 2025
Louvre Museum Reopens Following £100m Jewel Theft
The Louvre Museum in Paris, the world’s most visited art institution, was abruptly closed this morning following a high-stakes robbery in its historic Apollo Gallery….
19 October 2025
Damien Hirst Studio Targeted By Burglars: Two Plead Guilty
A man has pleaded guilty to the burglary of artwork by Damien Hirst at his Thames Wharf Studio, the artist’s long-standing workspace on the riverside in west London…..
18 October 2025
Frieze Tate Fund Announces Three New Acquisitions For 2025
Tate has announced three new acquisitions made possible through the 2025 Frieze Tate Fund, supported this year by £150,000…
16 October 2025
The Courtauld Receives Landmark £30 Million Gift from the Reuben Foundation
The Courtauld has announced a £30 million gift from the Reuben Foundation — the largest single donation in the institution’s history….
14 October 2025
Máret Ánne Sara: Goavve-Geabbil Launches Tate’s Hyundai Commission 2025
The Hyundai Commission: Máret Ánne Sara: Goavve-Geabbil arrives as the tenth in Tate’s celebrated annual series, continuing a partnership with Hyundai…
13 October 2025
Bob Ross Works Worth Millions Auctioned To Support PBS After Federal Cuts
Bob Ross, the gentle-voiced painter whose sublime landscapes became a fixture in American living rooms, is now lending his posthumous brush….
8 October 2025
National Gallery Sells Off Benches Over Health And Safety Concerns
A familiar fixture of the National Gallery is soon to disappear. The red leather benches that have long punctuated its rooms—symbols of quiet contemplation amid masterpieces….
7 October 2025
British Museum Inaugural Fundraiser Ball Announced
The British Museum will venture into new territory of its own. On 18 October, the institution hosts its first fundraising Ball…
1 October 2025
Steve McQueen: Granddaughter Sues Over $65m Jackson Pollock Drip Painting
A Jackson Pollock ‘Drip’ painting once thought to be lost has become the focus of a transatlantic legal battle. The work, valued at around $65 million…
29 September 2025
Ronald Perelman: $400m Insurance Claim Over Fire-Damaged Art Dismissed
A New York judge has dismissed Ronald Perelman’s attempt to claim $400 million from insurers for paintings he said had been damaged in a 2018 fire at his East Hampton estate….
27 September 2025
Original Drawing Behind Rembrandt’s Dog In The Night Watch Found
New research has revealed that the barking dog in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch draws directly on an early 17th-century design…
25 September 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
Man Dies Unloading Warhol BMW Art Car in Washington D.C.
A tragic accident has overshadowed preparations for Cars at the Capital, the Hagerty Driver’s Foundation’s annual display on Washington’s National Mall….
19 September 2025
Bayeux Tapestry: British Museum Launches Nationwide Programme Ahead Of Display
The British Museum has announced plans for a nationwide programme to accompany its landmark exhibition of the Bayeux Tapestry, which will travel to the UK…
17 September 2025
Pussy Riot Members Sentenced In Absentia As Kremlin Escalates Crackdown
Five members of Pussy Riot, the feminist punk collective that has spent more than a decade confronting Vladimir Putin’s regime, have been sentenced in absentia by a Moscow court….
17 September 2025
National Gallery Secures £375m For Landmark Expansion
The National Gallery has announced the most ambitious transformation in its 200-year history, with pledges totalling £375 million…
9 September 2025