A rare oil sketch by Peter Paul Rubens, Cimon Falling in Love with Efigenia (c. 1616–17), now faces an export bar in a bid to retain the work for the UK. Valued at £8.4 million, the piece—a vibrant preparatory study for Rubens’ later painting in Vienna’s...
People across the United Kingdom are deeply connected to the arts, as evidenced by the findings of a 2023 survey conducted by DCMS. An impressive 91 percent of UK adults engaged with the arts at least once in the previous year, with 74 percent attending events such as...
An export bar has been placed on a £2.9 million chandelier by the Swiss/French artist Alberto Giacometti. This will allow time for a UK institution to acquire the work. It was recently offered at Christie’s 20th/21st Century London Evening sale on February 28 and sold...
A Banksy mural hacked from a shopfront wall has been privately sold in the US for $2m . The artwork appeared on a wall last August in Lowestoft, Suffolk. The mural was part of a ten-piece Summer installation in Norfolk and Suffolk known as Banksy's Great British...
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has just released a report stating that the sector's contribution to the economy is up by 3.6 percent year-on-year to almost £250bn, accounting for 14.2 percent of the UK’s Gross Value Added (GVA) Britain’s...
A temporary export bar has been placed on an important album of portrait and figurative photographs by the 'Father of Art Photography', Oscar Rejlander (1813-1875). The action was taken by Culture Minister Ed Vaizey on Monday. The photos include prints of...
Brand new figures published by the Department for Culture, Media & Sport have revealed that the UK's Creative Industries are now worth £76.9 billlion per year to the UK economy. This is a growth of almost ten per cent on 2013 and three times that of wider UK...
The (DCMS) Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced an 8% cut in spending for the period 2015-2016. The deal, made with the Treasury is understood to be across the board effecting all arts disciplines and museums. Peter Bazalgette, the newly appointed...
The DCMS has announced that the Horniman and Geffrye Museums will stay under the DCMS umbrella and that the London museums will continue to be sponsored directly by the government. The DCMS is the Government's department responsible for supporting all of the national...