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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...
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards £750,000 To 10 UK Artists
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Awards for Artists is a rare beast in the UK: serious money, no strings, and an attitude that suggests artists deserve...
Castle Howard Wins Top Honours For Restoration Of Its Historic Interiors
Castle Howard, the grand North Yorkshire estate long synonymous with English heritage and cinematic splendour, has scooped two major awards for its...
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...