Charleston Trust, the organisation that looks after the country home of the Bloomsbury Group, has unveiled a significant off-site exhibition space in Lewes, East Sussex. This marks the first step towards a permanent cultural centre in the heart of the town that will...
The Burrell Collection has been announced as the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023 winner. Duncan Dornan, Head of Museums and Collections for Glasgow Life, was presented with the £120,000 prize - the largest museum prize in the world - by the artist Sir Grayson Perry...
Arts Council England has announced a £43.5 million shift in funding as part of the Government's pet project 'Levelling up'. ACE is the main organisation distributing grants to arts, culture, and creativity in England. It will now devote more funding to projects and...
Under an image of Richard Woods' 'Small House' installation at Southwark Cathedral, Fergus Butler Gaillie, in a recent article for The Spectator, criticised Cathedral art exhibitions as gimmicks bringing the temporary stimuli of consumerism into "places dedicated to...
From early on in their history, churches have regularly been spaces in which art was displayed and valued. That continued in the modern period, although the extent to which this so became somewhat obscured and the relationship between churches and artists became...
Forty years ago, David Nash was the first artist to make work on-site for Yorkshire Sculpture Park –invited by the founding director Peter Murray, who has only just retired. Nash has worked frequently with YSP since, so it makes sense that his current presence there...
William Turnbull (1922-2012) was one of Britain's most important post-war Modernists. He was described by Nicholas Serota when Director of the Tate as 'an exceptional artist, unusually gifted both as a painter and a sculptor, he explored the changing contemporary...
Audrey Flack found her signature style during the 1960s. Originally an Abstract Expressionist, she moved through New Realism to Photorealism. Her inspiration, though, derives from hyper-baroque works, including those of Carlo Crivelli and Luisa Roldán. Crivelli, she...
Grenville Davey, the Turner Prize-winning sculptor, has died at age 60. He was born in Launceston, Cornwall, in 1961 and studied at Exeter College of Art and Design until 1982, graduating from Goldsmiths College in 1985. He won the Turner Prize in 1992 for the...