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Bridget Riley Donates Major New Work To Tate Britain’s Collection
Bridget Riley's Concerto I (2024) enters the Tate collection—a gift from the artist herself. The painting debuts alongside Fall (1963) in a focused...
Bayeux Tapestry: UK Return Reignites Regional Heritage Wars
After over 958 years in exile, the Bayeux Tapestry's impending UK return has reignited old battles - not with swords this time, but with policy...
MIMA To Host Turner Prize 2026: A Cultural Coup For Middlesbrough
The Turner Prize is coming to Teesside. Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) will stage the prestigious contemporary art award in autumn...
Rory Pilgrim: Find Miracles A Sonic Soundwork Arrives At Waterloo Station
The Underground takes on a different timbre this month as Find Miracles, a new sound work by Turner Prize-nominated artist Rory Pilgrim, infiltrates...
Sir Brian Clarke Visionary of Contemporary Stained Glass Dies Aged 72
Artlyst Obituary | 7 July 2025: Sir Brian Clarke, whose restless experimentation and a driving ambition updated stained glass from an ecclesiastical...
Moira Cameron Wins Annual NPG Portrait Award 2025
Moira Cameron has been awarded first prize in the 2025 Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award for her contemplative and boldly executed...
Bayeux Tapestry: France Agrees To Historic Loan To British Museum
The British Museum has secured the long-anticipated loan of the Bayeux Tapestry, marking its first return to British soil in nearly a millennium....
Peter Phillips British Pop Art Trailblazer Dies Aged 86
Peter Phillips, a founding figure of British Pop Art whose vibrant, iconoclastic canvases helped define a new visual language for Post-War Britain,...
Mark Wallinger: Terminal 1 Installation At Glastonbury Confronts Border-State
Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger, never one to retreat from a politically explosive terrain, has returned with Jungle Gym, a starkly conceived...
Beamish Wins 2025 Museum Of The Year Securing £120K Prize
Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, has been named Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025, securing the £120,000 prize—the largest of its kind in the...
You Gotta Roll With It: Elizabeth Peyton’s Gallagher Portrait Squeaks By At Sotheby’s
Elizabeth Peyton’s Liam + Noel (Gallagher), one of her most significant portraits of the Oasis brothers, sold on the low part of the estimate at...
El Greco Belonging To Russian Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev In Legal Restitution Fight
The fate of El Greco's Saint Sebastian (c. 1610-14) hangs in limbo as Romania escalates its legal battle to reclaim the masterpiece, alleging it was...