United Kingdom
Museum of London to close ahead of relocation to Smithfield Market
Institution will reopen in 2026, with Fabric its first "nightclub in residence"
Pressure on British Museum to ditch BP mounts following UK's record summer heatwave
Temperatures might now be cooling, but tensions around the London institution’s ties to the oil giant are reaching boiling point
England’s Coronation tapestries: the right royal story behind the lavish, 500-year-old textiles
Could the historic pieces make an appearance at Westminster Abbey when Prince Charles succeeds the Queen?
Tales of tragedy and heroism: book of photographs bring England’s shipwrecks to vivid life
Volume comprises superb black-and-white images of 68 shipwrecks off the notoriously treacherous south-west coast, beginning in 1871
New book reveals how women artists in the 'Age of Revolutions' confound stereotypes
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
Cornelia Parker, Isaac Julien and Chila Burman among UK arts figures awarded in Queen's Birthday Honours
Three cultural figures have been appointed Companions of Honour, the highest award, including the art critic Marina Warner
Eleven royally arty things to do in the UK over Queen Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee weekend
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
Was UK museum's Courbet landscape stolen in Nazi-occupied France for Hitler’s deputy?
Now in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, a restitution claim for the work has been submitted to the Spoliation Advisory Panel
Storm Eunice damages UK heritage sites and forces museums and galleries to close
Cultural sites turn away visitors while iconic architecture is “shredded to pieces” by storm
UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries signs arts agreement with Saudi Arabia
Ceremony signing a memorandum of understanding took place at the Diriyah Biennale in Riyadh
New report recommends Bristol’s controversial slaver statue—torn down by BLM protestors—be permanently installed in museum
After four people who toppled Edward Colston statue are acquitted, the debate over problematic public art deepens
UK Government Art Collection will review 300 works relating to slavery, colonialism and racism
Following questions by The Art Newspaper, tags stating the works were under interpretation were immediately removed from the website
Plans to close pottery museum in Stoke for five months a year and cut full-time positions spark backlash
Gladstone Pottery Museum to be used as a film location under controversial council proposals
Colonial loot restitution debate enters UK parliament with new committee on African reparations
An all-party parliamentary group headed by the MP for Streatham aims to “start a discussion and educate people”
Greek prime minister ramps up demands for return of Parthenon Marbles
Kyriakos Mitsotakis wants to send ‘cultural treasures’ in exchange for ‘stolen’ sculptures
Conservatives scrap arts premium for schools promised in 2019 UK general election manifesto
Arts education policy amounting to £270m was missing from autumn budget announcement last week
Andrew Lloyd-Webber on why he commissioned eight monumental Shakespearian paintings for a London theatre
Artist Maria Kreyn’s depictions of King Lear and Othello go on show as part of Theatre Royal Drury Lane's £60m revamp
Secrets of the Black Prince's tomb effigy in Canterbury Cathedral revealed by scientists
Sculpture atop the final resting place of the medieval knight and heir to Edward III has been examined by a team of researchers led by The Courtauld Institute of Art
Ancient gold ewer returned to Turkey after V&A expert links it to illicit antiquities trade
The piece was part of the Gilbert Collection which is not bound by the same legal restrictions around deaccessioning as the London museum
Custard Apple, breadfruit and soursop sculptures honouring the Windrush generation unveiled in east London
Veronica Ryan's marble and bronze works are the first in a series of monuments dedicated to the Caribbean people who arrived in the UK between 1948 and 1971
Second presenter from right-wing GB News channel appointed trustee of a UK museum
Former Brexit Party candidate Inaya Folarin Iman joins board of the National Portrait Gallery in London
Five-metre-tall fountain pen sculpture by Michael Craig-Martin unveiled in Oxford
Artist says the work at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government is the ‘most daring of all my sculptures’
Conservative party donor John Booth appointed chair of London's National Gallery
Philanthropist succeeds Tony Hall, who stepped down following row over Princess Diana interview
Nadine Dorries named UK culture secretary
The right-wing politician, who appeared on the TV programme I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, replaces Oliver Dowden
'Now is the time': UK artists and galleries unite for climate campaign to mark COP26 conference
Conservation charity WWF and curatorial collective Artwise call on art world to raise funds and awareness for climate action
French decorative art stolen from 17-century country home in Sussex—for second time
Police appealing for information after five items, including a pair of Sèvres vases and a clock with a bronze figure of Apollo, were taken from Uppark on the South Downs
UK arts sector must learn to fight smart and dirty to get what it wants from the government
The fishing industry is worth far less than the £100bn creative industries but is given greater political importance—it's time to ask ourselves why
Eccentric Wentworth Woodhouse estate—home to centuries-old camellias—gets set to bloom again in Yorkshire
The rambling 365-room mansion is being rescued from near collapse, starting with its tea house
Controversial Stonehenge tunnel is unlawful, High Court rules
Judge concludes that UK transport secretary failed to consider alternatives to the scheme or assessed the ‘risk of harm’ to the Unesco site
Make politicians wear hats and Banksy carry the Olympic Torch: we look back at ten years of e-petitions to the UK government
Of the 169 online campaigns related to the arts since they were introduced, only three have been debated in the House of Commons