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Caravaggio documentary from makers of record-breaking Vermeer film to make streaming debut

The film is the latest to feature in the award-winning Exhibition on Screen series

Charity Art UK digitises nearly 7,000 murals across country

The project, launched in 2024, was completed with the help of around 90 “public art volunteers”

New £5m cultural centre in Northampton, UK to pursue model that ‘embeds artists in social and economic fabric of a place’

The Arts Collective complex, five years in the making, will feature galleries, learning spaces and 17 artists’ studios

Helen Legg appointed artistic director of London's Royal Academy of Arts

Currently director of Tate Liverpool, Legg will be responsible for the RA’s exhibitions, collection and public programme

Mummies and other human remains held in UK museums raise serious ethical questions, warn scholars

Guardian investigation highlighting 263,000 remains is a wake-up call for government, says Oxford professor

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor post-arrest photograph hung in Louvre by activists

Anti-billionaire campaign group Everyone Hates Elon put the photograph up and called for "justice for all Epstein survivors"

Dóra Maurer, ‘towering figure’ of the Hungarian art scene, has died aged 88

The pioneering multi-media artist found international recognition towards the end of her six decade-long career

Austrian pavilion artist Florentina Holzinger joins Thaddaeus Ropac

The choreographer and performance artist is best known for her radical theatre performances

‘A sad day’: UK cultural organisations criticise contractor’s decision to remove artworks from court cells

Works commissioned by the government’s Prisoner Escort and Custody Services were quickly taken down by Serco, according to a report

‘These are dirty funds’: Indigenous Brazilian leader slams Science Museum for oil sponsorship ahead of climate show

Ninawa Huni Kui has spoken out ahead of a show focused on the threatened Brazilian ecosystem of the Pantanal

Prominent art world figures named in latest Epstein files, including France's ex-culture minister Jack Lang

Collectors Leon Black, Steve Tisch and Jean Pigozzi and the artist Jeff Koons are also mentioned in the documents

Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts to close permanently

The decision comes after Creative Scotland confirmed it had suspended further funding payments to the venue

Antony Gormley and Brian Eno donate works to auction for Gaza health workers

The pair are among 21 artists to take part in a charity gala auction in London this February

London’s Courtauld to open two new contemporary art galleries after £10m gift

The spaces, which will launch as part of a 2029 re-development plan, will be funded by a donation from the Blavatnik Family Foundation

UK’s National Trust receives £10m, its largest-ever cash donation

Humphrey Battcock has not attached any conditions to the donation, saying he trusts “the National Trust to know how best this money can be used”

Brutalist home of England's first National Black Art Convention saved from demolition

The University of Wolverhampton’s School of Art building, which played a key role in the emergence of the British Black arts movement in the 1980s, has been granted Grade II listed status

Freedom of expression in England's culture sector under threat from ‘structural’ political pressure, report warns

Testimonies from arts workers claim that expressions of solidarity with Palestine and support for the rights of transgender people are being disproportionately stifled

Art sector could collectively cut over five million tonnes of CO₂ a year, report suggests

Gallery Climate Coalition’s inaugural Stocktake Report shows the difference the art sector can make when it comes to the climate—but the next five years are crucial, says chair Frances Morris

Private collectors’ return of artefacts to Ghana highlights UK's inaction on restitution, heritage experts say

British art historian Hermione Waterfield and South African mining company AngloGold Ashanti have retuned objects to Ghana's Asante Kingdom

Inside Lambeth Palace, the historic building that will be home to the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury

Sarah Mullally, who was appointed to the role last month, will be the first occupant of the palace following its £40m renovation

Opening date for London’s V&A East Museum announced

The institution will join venues for the BBC, Sadler’s Wells East and London College of Fashion in the new East Bank cultural quarter

Could art be as good for your health as exercise?

New York’s Healing Arts Week festival and ‘The Lancet’ medical journal have both focused on ways in which the arts can heal the mind and body

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Peter Doig and Marina Abramović celebrated at star-studded Praemium Imperiale ceremony

Speakers at the Tokyo event included former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton and ex-Italian prime minister Lamberto Dini

Artists should receive retrospective payments for works used to train AI, arts organisations say

The organisations, which together represent more than 100,000 visual artists, have issued a fresh call for an end to the unauthorised scraping of copyrighted visual works

London's Royal Academy announces plans to close Collection Gallery until 2027

The gallery will be redeveloped by David Chipperfield Architects, who will add a 12-metre-high space with a mezzanine

The new chief curator of Uzbekistan’s Centre for Contemporary Art is bringing insights from London to the youth of Tashkent

Sara Raza, who is also the space's first artistic director, has big plans to reach young people, inspired by her time at South London Gallery

Frieze to launch climate change fundraising initiative at its London fairs

Participating galleries have signed up to pledge 10% of the sale price of selected works to fund the Gallery Climate Coalition

The ancient city of Carthage is under attack again—and this time the enemy is climate change

Environmental damage is increasingly visible at the ruins of the former trading hub, located in modern-day Tunisia

Full steam ahead: world’s first rail journey to be re-enacted for 200th anniversary

A newly restored replica of Locomotion No. 1, which was designed in 1825, will run along the first public track later this month

London’s Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff to step down after 20 years in role

Rugoff curated 23 major shows during his tenure, as well as serving as artistic director of the Venice Biennale