Maria Balshaw To Leave Tate After Transformative Nine-Year Tenure
After nearly a decade at the helm, Maria Balshaw will leave her post as Director of Tate next spring…..
12 December 2025
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Nnena Kalu Wins The Coveted Turner Prize 2025 In Bradford
Nnena Kalu has won the coveted Turner Prize 2025 in Bradford, the current UK city of culture.
9 December 2025
Martin Parr British Photographer Of Everyday Life Dies Aged 73
Martin Parr, the photographer who spent more than four decades pointing his lens at Britain’s brittle optimism has died aged 73…
7 December 2025
Pantone Names Cloud Dancer As Colour of the Year 2026
Pantone has announced its Colour of the Year for 2026, and for the first time, the honour goes not to an intense pigment…
5 December 2025
Frank Gehry Architect of the Impossible Dies Aged 96
Frank Gehry, the Canadian-American architect who spent more than half a century bullying gravity into improbable shapes…
5 December 2025
Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 Reports Movement In The High-Value Bracket
Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 opened its VIP doors with the kind of confidence the fair has always been famous… Read More
4 December 2025
Fabergé Winter Egg: New £23m Record For Tsar’s Gift To His Mother
One of the last Fabergé imperial eggs still adrift in private hands, sold for a staggering £22.9 million at Christie’s.
3 December 2025
Serpentine And FLAG Launch The UK’s Largest Contemporary Art Prize
This week, a new, decade-long collaboration between London’s Serpentine and New York’s FLAG Art Foundation wrapped around what will…
3 December 2025
Pam Hogg: Scottish Fashion Designer Artist And Musician Dies
Pam Hogg, the Scottish designer, artist, musician and renegade spirit who spent four decades blowing holes in the polite boundaries… Read More
27 November 2025
Courtauld Announces Sweeping Plans For New London Campus
For months, rumours have trickled out of Somerset House suggesting the Courtauld was gearing up for something big—bigger than a refit, bigger than a gallery…
27 November 2025
Experts Claim Tourist Tax Could Rival National Lottery For Culture Sector
The Cultural Policy Unit (CPU), a think tank that’s been quietly pushing for the notion for years, can finally see light at the end of a tunnel for a tax that benefits us all….
25 November 2025
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
Turner Prize 2025: Artlyst Asks AI To Predict The Winner
The Turner Prize exhibition has settled into Cartwright Hall in Bradford like a slightly unpredictable houseguest—brilliant, messy, emotional, occasionally aloof…
24 November 2025
Sotheby’s Sued Over Modigliani Painting It Once Attributed And Sold
Behind the polished glass and discreet lighting, a significant legal dispute involving a Modigliani has emerged….
23 November 2025
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
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