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An export bar has been placed on Claude Lorrain’s Landscape with Rural Dance, giving UK institutions a chance to secure the painting for the...

A pastel by Edgar Degas led £59.7m worth of artworks into UK public collections last year, as donors used government-backed cultural schemes to...

The Critics’ Circle Visual Arts and Architecture Section named the recipients of its annual awards at a ceremony held last night, marking a...

Bob Ross, whose gentle voice soothed a generation of Sunday painters, is back on the auction block. Bonhams has announced it will offer a selection...

Plans for a new international concert hall in Wimbledon are still moving forward, following the death of the project’s lead architect, Frank...

NFT Paris and its sibling summit, RWA Paris, have cancelled this year’s events due to market uncertainty. Organisers say the numbers stopped...

The British Museum has confirmed it is recruiting a dedicated specialist to track down hundreds of missing antiquities, including believed to have...

Cecilia Giménez Zueco did not set out to become an art celebrity. She lived quietly in Borja, a small town in Aragón, Spain, painting for...

The King’s New Year Honours list for 2026 has been revealed, and for anyone looking for a pulse from the living end of British culture, it makes for...

There are very few cultural objects that carry the weight of an established myth. The Bayeux Tapestry is one of them…

Two identical Banksy murals have appeared in London: one in Bayswater, the other at Centre Point, but the city seems slow to notice. The work in...

The Russian state has deemed Pussy Riot an extremist organisation and banned them, outlawing their activities inside Russia. The decision is no...