NewsUnited Kingdom
UK art schools begin 14-day strike action
Dispute centres on zero-hours contracts, pay devaluation, rising workloads and the gender and ethnicity pay gap
NewsOpenings
Back to school: Massachusetts college museum gets a $12.5m makeover
The free-entry MassArt Art Museum, formerly known as the Bakalar & Paine Galleries, opens this weekend
NewsArt education
'Taking us back to the dark ages': UK-Europe exchange programme Erasmus hangs in the balance
Art history academics speak out as impending Brexit deadline threatens European partnership
NewsPhotography
JR launches open call on Instagram for his new free photography course
French artist says he will invite Naomi Campbell to school in Paris to help him teach 12 budding photographers
NewsArt schools
Open School East free art school moves into two new venues in Margate
The organisation has relocated to the former home of Thanet School of Arts and Crafts on Hawley Square
NewsRoyal College of Art
Despite Brexit, applications from EU up 12% at London's Royal College of Art
Art and design institution announces five-year plan centred on $108m Battersea base
NewsArt schools
Director of France's beleaguered national arts academy criticises culture minister for lack of support
Jean-Marc Bustamante has not had his contract renewed at ENSBA, where teachers have been accused of sexual harassment
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Back to bigger better art school: Dartmouth’s Hood Museum of Art to reopen in January
Inaugural shows include a photography exhibition on consent—drawn from student-selected acquisitions
NewsDisasters & destruction
Can the Glasgow School of Art be saved after second fire?
Anger as focus turns to cause of blaze that ripped through Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece
BlogIn the frame
Dressing for dystopia: funky fashion sources in The Handmaid’s Tale
NewsAcquisitions
American University Museum gets 9,000 works from Corcoran Gallery of Art’s collection
The defunct museum has given the last of its 20,000 works to 22 institutions in Washington, DC
FeatureFrieze New York
Frieze New York pays tribute to the School of Hudson
The maverick art dealer helped to shape New York’s contemporary art scene by finding and supporting some of today's biggest artists
NewsArtists
Scad honours Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
Works by the husband-and-wife artists and ten other solo exhibitions are on show as part of deFINE Art at the school’s Savannah museum
NewsBuilding projects
Royal College of Art's new £108m campus gets green light and will focus on art, technology and science
Building designed by Herzog & de Meuron will be a centre for robotics and drone technology
NewsEducation
New lease of life for life drawing classes?
Age-old practice is being ‘gradually reinvigorated', but new frontier is seemingly in 3D reprographic skills
NewsArt schools
Art school under fire for bowing to transgender student complaints
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has been accused of cowardice and censorship over its treatment of former professor and Henry Darger expert Michael Bonesteel
NewsArt schools
Gregor Schneider succeeds Tony Cragg as professor of sculpture at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
The controversial German artist takes the reins at one of Europe’s most influential art schools this summer
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MFA Boston is latest museum to shed its art school
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), is to merge with the city’s Tufts University this summer
NewsArt schools
It’s a long way from Black Mountain College
Art schools are at a crossroads as student numbers boom, tuition fees soar and traditional assumptions are challenged.
NewsArt schools
Gary Hume backs Goldsmiths scholarship
Six undergraduates will receive grants
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Art schools offer online tuition for all
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Lawsuit against Cooper Union comes to an end
The college promises to work toward restoring free tuition
NewsArt schools
Below-the-radar art graduates feature in New York show
Artists chosen by former Whitney director come from across the US
NewsArt schools
The art of the teacher: on the work of Hans Hofmann
The artist at last gets the recognition it deserves, says Alexander Adams