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Pantone Names Cloud Dancer As Colour of the Year 2026
Pantone has announced its Colour of the Year for 2026, and for the first time, the honour goes not to an intense pigment or a market-tested...
Frank Gehry Architect of the Impossible Dies Aged 96
Frank Gehry, the Canadian-American architect who spent more than half a century bullying gravity into improbable shapes and coaxing cities into...
Fabergé Winter Egg: New £23m Record For Tsar’s Gift To His Mother
London loves a spectacle, especially when it comes packaged in rock crystal and 4,500 diamonds. On Tuesday evening, Christie's delivered exactly...
Serpentine And FLAG Launch The UK’s Largest Contemporary Art Prize
This week, a new, decade-long collaboration between London’s Serpentine and New York’s FLAG Art Foundation wrapped around what will become the UK's...
Courtauld Announces Sweeping Plans For New London Campus
For months, rumours have trickled out of Somerset House suggesting the Courtauld was gearing up for something big—bigger than a refit, bigger than a...
Experts Claim Tourist Tax Could Rival National Lottery For Culture Sector
England’s long-awaited hotel levy (tourist tax) — a small charge added onto the end of a bill — suddenly looks to be edging towards...
Smoke Clears: British Museum Ends Tobacco Sponsorship Deal
The British Museum has quietly stamped out its long-running tobacco sponsorship deal — a partnership that always sat awkwardly in its portfolio of...
Turner Prize 2025: Artlyst Asks AI To Predict The Winner
The Turner Prize exhibition has settled into Cartwright Hall in Bradford like a slightly unpredictable houseguest—brilliant, messy, emotional,...
Sotheby’s Sued Over Modigliani Painting It Once Attributed And Sold
Sotheby's spent the week polishing its trophies — a Klimt with a stratospheric estimate, a Frida Kahlo that ignited the room — but behind the...
Caravaggio’s Street-Savvy Cupid Makes Its London Debut
The Wallace Collection has secured Victorious Cupid — the brazen, smirking, bare-fleshed Caravaggio masterpiece painted around 1601–02. This is the...
Tate Employees Vote Overwhelmingly For Week-Long Strike Action
The Tate has been simmering behind the scenes for months, but now it has evolved into a week-long strike that will test both the institution's...
Hauser & Wirth Faces First-Ever Luxury-Goods Prosecution
Hauser & Wirth, one of the leading international galleries operating in the UK, is facing criminal prosecution. The allegation states that the...