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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...
Rembrandt Original Or Workshop Copy? Art Institute of Chicago Investigates
In a dark corner of the Art Institute of Chicago, two paintings hang side by side. Both are titled Old Man with a Gold Chain. Both depict the same...
Glen Baxter Artist Of The Absurd Has Died Aged 82
Glen Baxter, the Leeds-born artist whose deadpan ink drawings made absurdism look easy and pretension look ridiculous, has died. He...
Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse Stolen In Audacious Raid On Italian Museum
Three paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, with an estimated combined value of €9 million, were stolen near Parma on...