Ghotmeh beat five architect-led teams to land what the museum has called “one of the biggest cultural renovations undertaken anywhere in the world”

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy announced today that funding will be shared between arts venues, museums, libraries and heritage buildings across England that are in “urgent need of financial support”

The unearthing of King Thutmose II's tomb has been described as “one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent years”

A Piranha sentry box will be displayed at the new institution, previously known as the Museum of London

Tristram Hunt’s proposal would see funds ring fenced for cash-strapped cultural infrastructure

The 2,000-year-old ruins were found close to Bank tube station and London Bridge

Conservators at London's Courtauld Institute used x-ray and infrared images to reveal the previously unseen works

A video shared to social media shows a figure standing on the main altar in St Peter’s Basilica

A statue of Rhodes at Oriel College in Oxford has previously sparked protests and calls for it to be removed

Scientists used artificial intelligence and X-ray imaging to decipher the Roman object's contents

The artist’s work—dedicated to the victims of the tragic fire—will be screened in cities including Cardiff and Glasgow

Roberto Bilotti has removed the piece from Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, claiming it was being exhibited in “a dark corner” and was “not valued at all”

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The masterpiece will leave the National Portrait Gallery and head to Bradford and Cambridge

The respected organisation for cultural relations wants the Foreign Office to boost funding

251 Scottish arts organisations will receive funding over the next three years

The London institution dedicates an exhibition to the boundary-breaking artist and performer whose body was his canvas

Both permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions were closed at the weekend following the suspected sabotage

Security guards at the Science Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum are urging the public not to visit during the action

The structure will have a kinetic element and look to the architecture of Bangladesh

Shelomo Selinger, who endured nine concentration camps, has donated the works ‘Desire for freedom’ and ‘Shoah (Holocaust)’

An exhibition of works by photographer Zoë Law, mounted after a donation towards the gallery’s £40m makeover, has raised questions about how matters relating to donors are handled and assessed

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has criticised an executive order signed by the new president, claiming his plans could harm local communities

The French image maker will show new works from ‘Children of Ouranos’ series

President Donald Trump has returned the statue—one of an identical pair—to his office, but it has not been a simple journey

The spa complex was thought to have been owned by a powerful politician

But art world commentators say focus should instead be on the “parlous state of the arts”

The institution has described the protests at the opening of its New Contemporaries exhibition as "misguided"

Around 100 members of United Voices of the World, who are employed by the external contractor Wilson James, will take strike action later this week

Political turmoil across the continent is hampering plans for national structures to return colonial-era heritage. But the UK, once a laggard, appears to be preparing to review laws