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    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      British Museum
      British Museum to digitise records after theft of treasures

      Chair George Osborne says institution was ‘victim of inside job’ over decades

      The British Museum
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      The National’s Scottish galleries reopen with light and space but need to tell a better story

      First-rate works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Scottish Colourists are on show, even if the narrative is muddled

      Gallery assistants re-hang a painting of a stag roaming a mountainside
    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      The Big Read
      The crisis at the British Museum

      The theft of 2,000 items risks undermining the institution’s founding purpose as a custodian of the world’s treasures

      View of two people from behind looking up at ancient Greek sculptures in the museum
    • Saturday, 26 August, 2023
      British Museum
      Osborne promises full stock take of British Museum’s artefacts as thefts row escalates

      Institution’s chair says up to 2,000 items are missing after it failed to act on warnings

    • Saturday, 26 August, 2023
      News in-depthSocial affairs
      Notting Hill Carnival marks 75 years of Caribbean culture in Britain

      As 2mn revellers prepare to party, this weekend’s event has special resonance for descendants of the Windrush generation

    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      British Museum
      British Museum director quits in wake of theft of artefacts

      Hartwig Fischer steps down admitting institution faces situation of the ‘utmost seriousness’

      Hartwig Fischer
    • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
      Visual Arts
      Unknown Rembrandt portraits unearthed after 200 years

      Rare works by Dutch master discovered by chance in UK family’s private collection

    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
      Visual Arts
      Reynolds masterpiece set to be secured for public in groundbreaking deal

      ‘Portrait of Mai’, valued at £50mn, will be shared equally by two galleries in London and Los Angeles

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      News in-depth
      Mobile gallery brings art to England’s culturally starved communities

      Touring exhibition aims to find new audiences for prized masterpieces

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      David Bowie
      David Bowie’s vast archive donated to V&A Museum

      More than 80,000 items, many never seen in public before, will be held at new hub in east London

      David Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust Tour in 1972-73
    • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
      Veronica Ryan wins 2022 Turner Prize

      Judges impressed by ‘personal and poetic way she extends the language of sculpture’

      Veronica Ryan with her sculptures
    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      Arts Council of England
      UK culture chief hits back at criticism to move arts funding out of London

      Lord Neil Mendoza insists British arts and media too focused on capital city

      The English National Opera presents Leos Janacek’s ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ at the London Coliseum
    • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
      Jemima Kelly
      The case for creative destruction

      Vandalising works of art can sometimes expand our horizons

      Ben Hickey illustration of a gold framed picture hanged on the wall with a red paint leaking down from the frame
    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      Royal Institute of British Architects
      Cambridge university library wins Riba Stirling Prize

      Prestigious UK architecture award highlights growing trend for sustainable design

      The New Library at Magdalene College
    • Monday, 10 October, 2022
      Visual Arts
      Artists who say: welcome to the museum of me

      Tracey Emin and Gilbert & George are among those planning to open galleries featuring their own work

      A woman sits on a step next to metal railings outside a brick building
    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      News in-depth
      Edinburgh’s ‘vastly inflated costs’ anger performers as festivals return

      Organisers are confident the flagship event will revive the city’s creative spirit despite the tensions

      The Edinburgh Fringe festival
    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
      Ministers urged to keep culturally important Reynolds painting in Britain

      Culture secretary to look ‘sympathetically’ on calls to extend export ban of Georgian masterpiece

      Joshua Reynolds’ ‘Portrait of Omai’ is moved before hanging at Tate Britain
    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
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      Masterpiece London 2022
    • Friday, 3 June, 2022
      Helen Barrett
      The secrets of Stonehenge could be locked for ever

      Digging a road tunnel risks losing archaeological clues buried at the 5,000-year-old site of pilgrimage

      Visitors recline against the stones in 1867
    • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
      Bradford named UK city of culture for 2025

      West Yorkshire city defeats County Durham, Wrexham and Southampton to title

      celebrations as Bradford announced City of Culture 2025
    • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
      Tate Modern
      Tate Modern scales back size of shows to cut costs and emissions

      London gallery says it will look for partnerships with other institutions to save money

      Paul Cezanne’s ‘Bathers’ (c.1894-1905)
    • Friday, 15 April, 2022
      Personal Finance
      Crafts cost crunch threatens centuries-old skills

      Rising energy and materials bills squeeze traditional artisans

      Wheelwright Phill Gregson at his workshop in Lancashire.
    • Friday, 1 April, 2022
      City of London
      City of London grandee’s collection of barometers goes up for sale

      Sir Nicholas Goodison was a driving force behind Big Bang reforms but also pursued cultural interests

      Artefacts from the Sir Nicholas Goodison collection at Christies
    • Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
      BP PLC
      National Portrait Gallery ends BP sponsorship under pressure from activists

      London gallery becomes the latest UK cultural institution to sever fossil fuel links

      Extinction Rebellion activists lie on the ground, as they get covered in fake crude oil, to protest against an exhibition sponsored by BP at the National Portrait Gallery in London in 2019
    • Friday, 4 February, 2022
      British Museum
      Osborne taps backers to raise £1bn for ‘radical’ renovation of British Museum

      Government and private funding sought for modernisation of 170-year-old cultural institution

      The British Museum in central London
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