Millionaire Jonathan Ruffer’s ambitious regeneration of a small former mining town in northern England reveals 1,000 years of history and art

Concurrent exhibitions at Hastings Contemporary and Turps track the influences of the Slade and Bacon to the playfulness of his later works

Artist’s Californian cloudscape, drawn in chalk, hangs in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

As shadow minister for the arts 15 years ago, Johnson laid out his plans in The Art Newspaper

Liverpool slavery museum keen to collaborate on project highlighting UK’s involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade

Most were scientific materials, but 69,000 went to cultural venues

The watercolour painting, considered one of the artist's finest works, was sold to a private collector in 2006

Trisha Brown, Samson Young and James Richards are among the highlights of this year's cultural offering in the Scottish capital

Public can take a dip in the intricate Gateway pool at Jupiter Artland park in Edinburgh

Remain campaigner has said that schoolchildren who focus on arts and humanities are limiting their career choices

From his mother to his partners, the UK's new prime minister has been surrounded by people in the arts

No deal prospect and track record as London Mayor scrutinised

Bristol exhibition reveals Ian Weldon's documentary approach to "all the indiscretions, bad dancing and excessive behaviour" of a British wedding

Three huge silk and wool works depicting England’s Midland counties have been painstakingly preserved by the Bodleian Library and the National Trust

The Cardiff museum is the first Welsh winner of the £100,000 prize, beating other finalists including V&A Dundee and Pitt Rivers Museum

Hill House in Helensburgh has been covered to protect it from the rain while National Trust makes conservation plans

Artists Lubaina Himid and Tarek Atoui receive funding awards

The successful candidate must organise an international symposium in 2021

Johnny Dewe Mathews on his exhibition of 1970s photographs at New Art Centre

Artist Kate Daudy will also unveil works in London later this year inspired by King Tutankhamun’s treasures

David Williams-Ellis' sculpture for the British Normandy Memorial will be unveiled today by May and Macron

Mark Purcell's study explores 19th-century bibliomania and rejects the notion that books in historic libraries were "bought by the yard"

Proposed urban art museum in South Wales will also include works by Kaws and Blek le Rat

Only 2% of artists earn more £50,000, a report by the Arts Council England finds

Fair is responding to market’s current return to tradition, while Brexit looms large in the minds of exhibitors

Her heir was not apparent, her life full of mysteries, now a major collection of Vivian Maier’s work is available to British collectors for the first time at Photo London

Global art and antiques imports and exports in and out of the UK increased last year but are yet to reach the levels seen during the 2015 peak

Fig-futures project brings works worth £80,000 to four venues

Seaside gallery on England’s south coast will have double the space for exhibitions when it reopens in July

Historic vessels set sail again from wet dock at the heart of the Lake District boating museum