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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 — but this week,...
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, Swedish...
Marlene Dumas: First Contemporary Woman Artist Acquired for Louvre Permanent Collection
It’s the kind of milestone that feels both overdue and oddly inevitable. The Louvre — that great cathedral of art history, where centuries of male...
Arts Return To National Curriculum Ending Fourteen-Year Exile
After more than a decade of slow erosion, the arts are finally being let back into the classroom. The Cultural Policy Unit — the small but...
Just Stop Oil Activists Cleared Over Stonehenge Protest
A prehistoric monument has become the stage for a modern debate about protest, politics, and the planet. This week, three members of Just Stop Oil...
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 — along with a...
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, told MPs last week that the...
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...
King Charles Unveils Bronze LGBTQ+ Armed Forces Memorial
King Charles returned to Staffordshire this week, bridging two moments of remembrance — one civic, the other personal at Lichfield Cathedral. At the...
Louvre Heist: Paris Police Detain Suspects Over Stolen Crown Jewels
Five more suspects have been detained in connection with the daring Louvre heist that saw €88 million in crown jewels vanish in daylight earlier...
Chris Levine: Portrait Of Late Queen In Court Battle for Authorship
An image of the late Queen with her eyes gently closed — serene, radiant, forever captured in a moment of contemplation, is one of the most...
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,...