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  Qatar Museums has announced plans for a new permanent structure conceived by Gerhard Richter, one that will function simultaneously as...

  Trafalgar Square has a new occupant. Tschabalala Self's Lady in Blue was unveiled today on London's Fourth Plinth, becoming the sixteenth...

  The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived at the British Museum and opens to the public this week for the first time on British soil, a genuine...

    Ally Van Tillo, who founded the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt after being moved by the American NAMES Project across the Atlantic, has died....

  Mary Heilmann, whose intensely coloured, deliberately precarious abstractions made her one of the most quietly influential painters in...

  Towner Eastbourne has appointed Martin Clark as its new Chief Executive and Director, the gallery announced today. Clark joins from Camden...

  Ronald S. Lauder, the billionaire cosmetics heir, art collector and philanthropist whose political gifts supported New York Republican...

    English Heritage has appointed Tim Reeve CBE as its next Chief Executive, marking the return of one of the sector's most experienced...

Abu Dhabi has appointed Dr Valerie Hillings as the first director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, marking a significant step towards the opening of the...

  Ruth Mackenzie has been appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Arts in the House of Lords, taking on the role with a newly...

    The Photographer Annie Leibovitz has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in Manhattan federal court against Observer Media, owner...

  Edward Lucie-Smith, the Jamaican-born British art critic, poet and author whose output across more than six decades shaped how several...