United Kingdom
Historic Bernheim-Jeune and Fine Art Society galleries shut up shop
A sign of the times, two of London and Paris’s oldest firms closed their premises in the traditional art heartlands of the cities
Milton Keynes gallery expansion wants to ‘make people think again’
MK Gallery's new £12m building is inspired by utopian 1970s heyday of England’s maligned New Town
Export licence granted for Monet's $63m painting of London
Owned by a British collector for almost 70 years, the work showing Charing Cross Bridge has gone abroad
Oxford museum rethinks famed display of shrunken heads
The review of the ‘tsantsas’ is part of a wider exercise looking at the Pitt Rivers Museum’s historic labels
Art world scrambles to ship art before Brexit deadline
Pavilion commissioners among those to allow extra transport time for Venice Biennale as “huge ramifications” dawn
Jerwood Gallery in Hastings to lose British art collection by November
Almost 300 Modern and contemporary works will be withdrawn amid funding dispute with the Jerwood Foundation
'A perfectly engineered catastrophe': artists speak out after Theresa May’s Brexit deal is crushed by parliament
Some, like Mark Wallinger, hold out vain hope for a second referendum, others, like Anish Kapoor, say we must come together to beat mounting xenophobia and intolerance
UK approves ivory ban
An extension to include hippopotamus, walrus and narwhal ivory will be discussed next year
Astronomy, unknown trailblazers and failed monuments: new Collective space opens in Edinburgh's old observatory
Works by Dineo Seshee Bopape and Klaus Weber go on show in the revamped 19th-century neoclassical complex
How the UK has revived its Monuments Men
The CPPU consists of a solitary lieutenant-colonel, but he is recruiting
UK threat to leave Unesco reignites debate about purpose of UN culture body
The US and Israel announced plans to leave the international organisation last year
Long-lost Tudor tapestry could be saved for the UK
Work commissioned by Henry VIII for Hampton Court Palace left the country in the early 1970s
Warship figureheads restored ahead of opening for new Plymouth arts complex
Royal Navy statues are being made shipshape and ready for installation at The Box, opening in 2020
Jeff Koons's balloons, basketballs and ballerinas to head to historic Oxford museum for solo show
“Miniature retrospective” at the Ashmolean will focus on recent works, such as the US artist’s Gazing Ball series
'Prime minister of taste': Horace Walpole's collection reunited at Strawberry Hill
Exhibition in collector's former Thames-side home follows a successful (and ongoing) treasure hunt
Tate’s most popular ever exhibition not staged in UK—but in China
Visitor numbers at Shanghai Museum eclipse institution’s most successful London exhibitions
Hard, soft or no-deal: how the UK art market is preparing for Brexit
Costs, paperwork and shipping delays are among gallery concerns, but experts say there are solutions
Murders most foul: Gainsborough family revenge killings trigger reassessment of artist’s early years
New research reveals that two members of Thomas Gainsborough's family were killed over a financial dispute when the artist was a child
Looted ‘cannibal’ bowl served up in Royal Academy of Art’s Oceania show
Artefact is one of around 200 on show in largest exhibition on the region in almost 40 years
Christopher Gibbs: the man who brokered £50m Getty grant to the National Gallery—and fed Princess Margaret hash brownies
The antiques dealer was more than an “acid-tripping ex-roué once known as the king of Chelsea”
Labour Party to put creativity 'back at the heart of the school curriculum'
Pledge comes at a time of decline in arts subjects in schools
British Museum’s basement of treasures to remain off-limits
Hidden underground galleries closed since 2006 still house £100m Assyrian relief
Bloomsbury group’s country home to open all year round
New shows at Charleston will celebrate the liberal legacy of the artists and intellectuals who gathered there
Conflict-of-interest scandal at publicly funded UK arts centre Firstsite
Chairman and trustee resigned amid investigation into more than £90,000 spent on consultancy firm they directed
Ferens Art Gallery: a northern powerhouse
Hull gallery more than tripled visitor numbers during UK City of Culture year after “Herculean” renovation
Giuseppe Penone on Arte Povera, Cézanne’s best work and never tiring of trees
The Italian artist speaks to The Art Newspaper ahead of his major show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park