Arts Minister Michael Ellis has launched a £20 million fund aimed at helping culture, heritage and the creative industries to benefit towns and cities across England. This marks a commitment by the government’s Industrial Strategy. Areas will be able to bid for up to...
The DCMS has granted a temporary UK export licence for Sir Joshua Reynolds painting of Omai to travel to Amsterdam to be exhibited in the highly anticipated 'High Society' exhibition at the Rijksmuseum. The show explores full-length portraiture and opens on 8 March....
Michael Ellis the Arts Minister has placed a temporary export bar on Ehrenbreitstein, a painting by JMW Turner, to provide an opportunity to keep it in the country. The painting is at risk of being exported from the UK unless a buyer can be found to match the asking...
Kevin Brennan, the shadow arts minister, has revealed that there is an 'Institutional' male bias in the government's art collection. He pointed out that only a quarter of works acquired by the government in the last five years are by female artists. Research by...
It has been a challenging year in the art world with record auction prices and soaring fair costs. Many art dealers have had to rethink their business models while the top 5% of dealers have reported a bumper year. We have also seen the end of age restrictions at the...
The Arts Council has published its 2016/17 Cultural Gifts Scheme and Acceptance in lieu annual report. It shows that in the last year, 44 cases – spanning a vast range of works of art worth £40 million – were accepted for the nation under the government’s Cultural...
On 5th December, seven new appointments were quietly made to Arts Council England’s (ACE) National Council, governing board. This included the controversial choice of Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The Rt Hon Karen Bradley MP...
As a result of Brexit, Britain has been stripped of hosting the European Capital of Culture in 2023. Plans for the UK to host a Capital of Culture in 2023 were announced in 2014 - before the EU referendum. Although a number of non-EU countries have been invited to...
Tate St Ives reopens on the 14 October 2017 after a four-year building project. The gallery has doubled the space for showing art, adding almost 600 square metres of galleries, and created spectacular new studios for learning activities. This finally gives Cornwall’s...