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Turner Prize 2026 Shortlist Announced As Competition Heads To Middlesbrough
Tate Britain has announced the four artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2026, naming Simeon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau and Tanoa...
Antony Gormley Sculpture Sold Off By Reform-Run Kent County Council
A work by Antony Gormley, one of Britain’s most significant living sculptors, has been sold by Kent County Council without public debate,...
Art Fund Announces Museum of the Year 2026 Shortlist
Art Fund, the national charity for art and museums, has announced the five finalists for Museum of the Year 2026, the world’s largest museum...
UK Cultural Organisations To Share £130m In Government Grants
More than 130 cultural organisations in England are set to share close to £130 million in government funding. The package is aimed at stabilising...
Venice Biennale: EU Pulls €2m In Funding Over Reopened Russia Pavilion
The Venice Biennale is facing the prospect of losing €2 million in European Commission funding over its decision to allow Russia to reopen its...
PRINTED MATTER Celebrates 50 Years Of Artist’s Books
Fifty years is a long time for any cultural institution to survive, let alone one built around the proposition that artists’ books deserve to...
Shroud of Turin: DNA Tests Prove It’s A Forgery
New research into the Shroud of Turin has found DNA from carrots, cats, dogs, cattle, pigs, wheat, corn, peanuts and bananas on its surface. Whether...
Kengo Kuma To Design National Gallery’s New £350m Wing
The National Gallery has named its architect. Kengo Kuma and Associates, the Tokyo-based practice behind V&A Dundee and the Calouste Gulbenkian...
Unseen Lee Miller Photographs Discovered In Assistant’s Private Album
A scrapbook assembled by a man named Roland Haupt, photographic assistant to Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton during the Second World War, has been...
New York Court Orders Return of Modigliani Looted By The Nazis
A New York judge has ruled that a painting by Amedeo Modigliani, confiscated from a Jewish antiques dealer during the Nazi occupation of Paris, must...
Michelangelo Pistoletto: United Nations Collaboration Conveys a Year-Long Call For Peace
A new moving-image work by Michelangelo Pistoletto will appear daily on public screens across cities spanning four continents, part of a year-long...
Glasgow’s Creative Heart Under Threat By Council Rent Hikes – Clare Henry
In the 1990s, GLASGOW restored its reputation by championing the arts. From the end of the 1980s, when GLASGOW was nominated as European Capital of...