London gallery turns Premier League football match into an art installation
Mark Titchner's work was displayed at Tottenham Hotspur's stadium and broadcast to millions of fans
'Don't expect us to be passive' in the face of restitution: British Museum chair defies return of looted artefacts
In speech at the annual trustees dinner George Osborne said that "dismantling" the collection "must not become the careless act of a single generation”
Acquisitions round-up: the first painting by Swiss avant-garde artist Ferdinand Hodler to head to London's National Gallery
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After attempts to save it, the studio of Kurt Schwitters—who escaped Nazi Germany to become one of England’s great Absurdists—is to be sold
The Merz Barn will now likely be sold for commercial development after public funding was refused
Saudi Arabia reportedly building gallery to house Leonardo's Salvator Mundi
The painting has not been seen in public since it was allegedly bought by the Saudi Crown Prince for $450m in 2017—but the art historian Martin Kemp suggests it may soon be brought "into the light"
Protestors at British Museum demand release of writer imprisoned in Egypt
Plight of British-Egyptian Alaa Abd El-Fattah, currently on hunger strike, is focal point of protest as hieroglyphs exhibition opens
‘More serious than the pandemic’: UK museums will struggle to keep doors open without government intervention, top director warns
Director-general of National Galleries of Scotland warns the country's most historic art institutions will face partial closure without support, as energy bills are forecast to double next year
Wildfire on Easter Island causes 'irreparable' damage to ancient moai head statues
The Unesco World Heritage Site is closed while conservators assess the damage to the almost 1,000 ancient statues, while the island's mayor claims the fire was started deliberately
London's Victoria and Albert museum announces it will 'no longer carry the Sackler name'
Institution cuts ties with the family behind the highly addictive drug Oxycontin
A Danny Boyle dance show inspired by The Matrix and an inflatable Kusama room: Manchester's new art space set to open next year
Factory International is over budget and four years late, but will create 1,500 new jobs and inject a projected £1.1bn into the city's economy over the next decade, city council say
Six of the best photographs from Queen Elizabeth II's life in the spotlight
From wartime princess in khaki green to widowed monarch in black, Elizabeth became, through visual media, the most recognised figure in the world
‘Photography gave my existence meaning’: Ukrainian artist Boris Mikhailov on making art in the USSR
As he prepares for a major retrospective in Paris, he reflects on his homeland’s war with Russia and how his art was born from adversity
Michelle Donelan named new UK culture secretary
The former minister for universities has been promoted under the new prime minister, Liz Truss
UK culture secretary Nadine Dorries resigns amid party leadership change
Dorries, the 10th culture secretary in 12 years, was closely aligned with former prime minister Boris Johnson
Susan Sontag's influential 1977 book On Photography is reissued
New version published by The Folio Society includes new insights from curator Mia Fineman who has selected key accompanying images
Acquisitions round-up: Tate gets Indigenous Australian art and Ohio's Toledo Museum swaps Impressionist paintings for a Kerry James Marshall
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Icom condemns Russia's 'deliberate destruction' of Ukrainian heritage and plans stricter code of ethics
The International Council of Museums says revised protocol will allow it to more readily “address conflicts”—and could lead to the expulsion of Russia from the organisation
What is a museum? Icom finally decides on a new definition
The 50-year-old statement has been overhauled at the International Council of Museums conference in Prague today
Leading museum directors to debate whether institutions can remain objective in a politically volatile world
At the ICOM conference in Prague, leaders will be told traditional planning could be a liability when addressing modern human rights issues
As the Commonwealth Games open, Birmingham’s museum sector contends with the legacy of colonialism
The Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is pursuing a project of mass participation in an attempt to fully involve the city’s many communities in the future of the museum
Museum Association demands that UK government invest in institutions as cost of living and inflation soar
Influential museum organisation calls for a new pay settlement, warning that workers face pay decreases "at the fastest rate for decades"
PinchukArtCentre reopens in Kyiv with exhibition of photographs documenting cost of war with Russia
Private museum opens doors for first time since Russia invaded Ukraine
Alistair Hudson appointed head of Germany’s Zentrums für Kunst und Medien
Whitworth Art Gallery chief stays in post until end of 2022 following exhibition controversy last year
'A model for how a traditional museum can become relevant': Horniman Museum in London wins Art Fund's Museum of the Year Award
The institution was awarded the £100,000 prize—the biggest in the global museum sector—for its attempt to confront its colonialist roots
A 'revolt against the cult of the male genius': the must-see photographs at Rencontres d’Arles
France's historic photography festival gives top billing to the unseen, unrecognised and repressed, with a headline show dedicated to dissident feminist artists, many of whom worked behind the Iron Curtain
William Kentridge calls on UK to find consensus over its ‘shameful past’ like South Africa has with apartheid
Ahead of his major retrospective at the Royal Academy this autumn, South African artist says Britain needs "imaginative solutions" for colonial era statues
New series of obscured portraits honour Afghan interpreters’ service in the fight against the Taliban
Photographs by former British army officer Andy Barnham capture the lives of the translators whilst hiding their identity from Afghanistan's extremist rulers
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Art fairs have become a lifeline for Ukrainian galleries—even in Basel
Stands offered for free at Liste, while some gallery workers are living on the art fair circuit, unable to return home
Congolese artists mint NFTs to challenge US museum's ownership of indigenous sculpture
The pair have created NFTs of a sculpture made in the Congo but owned by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in response to a disagreement over its loan