Lisa Nandy Named Culture Secretary In Starmer’s Labour Government
In a landslide victory that ended 14 years of Conservative rule, Labour has appointed Lisa Nandy as the new Culture… Read More
5 July 2024
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Arts In the UK Generate £140 billion In Revenue Reveals DCMS
People across the United Kingdom are deeply connected to the arts, as evidenced by the findings of a 2023 survey… Read More
6 December 2023
Giacometti Bronze Chandelier Export Bar Placed By DCMS
An export bar has been placed on a £2.9 million chandelier by the Swiss/French artist Alberto Giacometti. This will allow time for a UK institution to acquire the work.
18 July 2023
Banksy Spraycation Mural Sells For $2m – John Sainsbury Art Patron Dies – DCMS £30m Emergency Support For Culture
Banksy Spraycation Mural Sells Privately – John Sainsbury Art Patron Dies – DCMS £30m Emergency Support For Culture
17 January 2022
£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
Gainsborough Landscape Painting Granted Temporary Export Bar
Helen Whately the Arts Minister has placed an export bar on Thomas Gainsborough’s ‘Going to Market, Early Morning’ in the hope that a UK gallery or museum can acquire the work for the nation.
30 December 2019
Temporary Export Bar Placed On Pre-Raphaelite Masterpiece By Millais
A temporary export bar on Millais’ ‘Ferdinand Lured by Ariel’ has been put in place by Arts Minister Rebecca Pow
19 August 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
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
Peter Paul Rubens African Portrait At Risk Of Leaving UK
Peter Paul Rubens, (Flemish, 1577–1640), Head of an African Man Wearing a Turban, painted in 1609 is in danger of leaving the UK forever.
8 April 2018
DCMS Reports £92bn Sector Bonanza For Creative Industries, Digital and Sport
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has just released a report stating that the sector’s contribution to the economy is up by 3.6 percent year-on-year to almost £250bn, accounting for 14.2 percent of the UK’s Gross Value Added (GVA)
3 December 2017
Karen Bradley Culture Secretary Plans To Increase Access To Arts and Culture
Karen Bradley the new Culture Secretary made her maiden speech last week, in Liverpool, setting out plans for a more inclusive… Read More
23 August 2016
Public Art By Moore, Hepworth and Gormley Receive Grade II Listing
Forty one works of post-war public art in England has been grade II listed by the government. The newly protected list also includes… Read More
22 January 2016
Dedicated Gallery To House Government Art Collection Proposed
Original works of art created by some of the best known artists in the UK are hidden away and not on… Read More
3 January 2016
Art Museums Miss Out As Culture Secretary Announces £3m In Grants
Culture Secretary Sajid Javid announced today, while visiting the Canal & River Trust’s Gloucester Waterways Museum that 25 museums
27 February 2015
Oscar Rejlander Photographic Album Receives Temporary DCMS Export Bar
A temporary export bar has been placed on an important album of portrait and figurative photographs by the ‘Father of… Read More
26 February 2015
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
Museums And Galleries Benefit From Surge In Overseas Tourist Visits
The DCMS have announced figures for the number of visits by overseas tourists to the UK, with an all time… Read More
18 August 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
George Stubbs Kangaroo And Dingo Saved For The Nation
Two masterpieces by the 18th century painter George Stubbs, featuring a kangaroo and a dingo executed in 1778 will stay… Read More
6 November 2013
Chancellor George Osborne Announces 7% Cut To Culture budget
Chancellor George Osborne has officially announced a 7% cut to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) as part… Read More
26 June 2013
DCMS Announces 8% Cut In Arts Spending For 2015-2016
The (DCMS) Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced an 8% cut in spending for the period 2015-2016. The… Read More
14 June 2013
Culture Secretary Maria Miller Delivers Keynote Speech At British Museum
Maria Miller has outlined the Conservative Government’s future policy on the arts and declared that they must “hammer home the… Read More
25 April 2013
V&A And Tate To Adopt Mobile Phone Donation Scheme
Last December the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) announced cuts of £11.6 million to Arts Council England (ACE)… Read More
1 April 2013
DCMS Will Continue Funding The Horniman And Geffrye Museums
The DCMS has announced that the Horniman and Geffrye Museums will stay under the DCMS umbrella and that the London… Read More
27 January 2013
Manet Tops Treasures Valued At £29m Saved For Nation
Four globally important national treasures have been saved for display in UK museums in 2011/12. The four works are highlighted… Read More
18 December 2012
DCMS – Museums Need To Get Better At Asking For Money
The head of philanthropy and fundraising at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in England and the UK,… Read More
19 November 2012
Masterpieces Gifted In Lieu Of Tax Tops £25 Million
Valuable masterpieces by Sir Joshua Reynolds, JMW Turner and Peter Paul Rubens have been given to the nation in lieu of tax
8 November 2012
Government U Turn On Charitable Donations Encourages Philanthropists
The Culture Minister Ed Vaizey was at the Tate Britain last week to welcome a major donation of British Art… Read More
7 June 2012
Millions In Art Donations Boost UK Museums
Turner, Hepworth and Sickert saved for the Nation to enjoy National treasures worth millions were saved from export and purchased… Read More
17 December 2011
Arts Donations From UK Business Falls By 11%
Businesses investment in UK arts fell last year by 11%. This was despite Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s DCMS directive to… Read More
29 January 2011
Arts Council England Absorbs Museums Libraries Council
It’s Official,and why do these things always happen just before the holiday break.The Department for Culture,Media and Sport (DCMS) under… Read More
23 December 2010