Suffolk County Council wants to slash £500,000 for culture, which could put local museums at risk

Figures for the first half of 2023 show an increase over the year before, although still below their pre-Covid peaks

With world temperatures hitting record highs this summer, a plethora of exhibitions in London and beyond explore our relationship to the planet

The "arm's length" principle, which frowns on political meddling in museums, is being eroded by policy hawks, writes artist and activist Bob and Roberta Smith

Travellers' Rest stones were installed between Liverpool and Manchester for travel-weary Irish labourers

The UK's shadow culture minister sets out the Labour party's plan for arts and culture if they win the next election

The revealing handwritten memoirs of Caroline Herschel, the first woman to receive payment from King George III for her interstellar discoveries, has been acquired by the museum that was once her home

The large piece of oak is around 6,000 years old–2,000 years older than Stonehenge

After a three-year closure and £41m redevelopment, the London institution aims to better acknowledge the UK’s history and diverse population

The gallery—and the other big London museums—should be sending their vast collections around the country instead of hiding them in basements

Government funding helps acquire Surrey house and garden that launched the global careers of the architect Edwin Lutyens and the garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, whose home it was for nearly 40 years

The UK Labour Party is gearing up for the next election and should be talking about how we are educating children

Shrewsbury Arts Trail in the west of England has secured the works on loan from the Swiss-based Dalí Universe

UK’s public institutions continue to provide a greater degree of equity—though this is not even across all pay brackets

"Keyboard warriors" are calling out unfair recruitment practices at cultural institutions

The problematic trend could reflect a wider international problem for the art market

Around 55 messages composed by the monarch reveal her condition under captivity and negotiations for her release

Victorian hospital will re-create the original skylight that aided innovative treatment of “working and deserving” women

Institution will reopen in 2026, with Fabric its first "nightclub in residence"

Temperatures might now be cooling, but tensions around the London institution’s ties to the oil giant are reaching boiling point

Could the historic pieces make an appearance at Westminster Abbey when Prince Charles succeeds the Queen?

Volume comprises superb black-and-white images of 68 shipwrecks off the notoriously treacherous south-west coast, beginning in 1871

This statistics-driven investigation shows that many of the hundreds of women exhibiting in London and Paris between 1760 and 1830 eschewed the still-life

Three cultural figures have been appointed Companions of Honour, the highest award, including the art critic Marina Warner

From Sex Pistols album covers to a tower moat full of flowers, here are the best exhibitions, installations and events to check out over the long bank holiday

Now in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, a restitution claim for the work has been submitted to the Spoliation Advisory Panel

Cultural sites turn away visitors while iconic architecture is “shredded to pieces” by storm

Ceremony signing a memorandum of understanding took place at the Diriyah Biennale in Riyadh

After four people who toppled Edward Colston statue are acquitted, the debate over problematic public art deepens

Following questions by The Art Newspaper, tags stating the works were under interpretation were immediately removed from the website