The works—mostly by Greek artists—will go to the National Gallery of Greece in Athens, Momus-Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete and National Galleries Scotland in Edinburgh

Pietrangelo Buttafuoco said he would do “everything” again in regards to his clash with the Italian government and the European Commission on the issue

Likely commissioned in France but made in England, the tapestry could have been called ‘the Canterbury Embroidery’ joked the King in a speech

Artists Refik Anadol and Cao Fei are among the judges for the London-based Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellowship

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Author James Cahill's account of the burgeoning 1960s LA art scene explores links between collector Betty Freeman and the late Yorkshire artist

There is plenty to read about the medieval masterpiece as it returns to England for the first time in almost 1,000 years

In 2023, when he was mayor of greater Manchester, Burnham had expressed unequivocal support for returning the Parthenon Marbles with ‘no strings’ attached

The export bar gives UK museums and galleries until 26 December to raise the funds to keep the painting in the country

The group show ‘The Defeated: The Aesthetics of Resistance 2026’, which opened in Stockholm this week, is inspired by the antifascist, postwar literature of German-Swedish writer Peter Weiss

Mackenzie, who was made a peer in July, previously led various performing arts festivals and theatres in the UK and abroad, and was most recently director of arts at the British Council

The recent release of A-level and GSCE data for UK students and schools has renewed calls to ‘revitalise arts education’

The fellowship, supported by the founders of the Klesch Collection, is looking for an early-career researcher ‘redefining how art history is studied in the age of artificial intelligence and digital technologies’

Winning primary school classes will receive a free trip to the British Museum in London to see the Bayeux Tapestry, as well as a funded visit to the Battle of Hastings site

The heist, which included several San Gregorio altarpiece panels, occurred on Saturday while the town was celebrating Assumption Day

The works had been taken from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation near the city of Parma in March

The museum director will move from London to the East Sussex institution ahead of the development of its new outpost in the South Downs National Park

Each year, Siena commissions an artist to hand paint the silk ‘drappellone’, awarded to the museum associated with the race winner

The former director of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona will follow in the footsteps of the late Koyo Kouoh when she takes up her new role in October

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Robert Storr speaks about his tenure in this exclusive extract from Massimiliano Gioni’s new book of interviews with biennale artistic directors

The work, made for the sexcentenary of Oxford's Lincoln College, will be shown alongside other artist-designed tapestries woven at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh

The Italian scholar Enrico Maria dal Pozzolo tells us about new discoveries and why the Bolognese painter was an innovator in her field

According to the BBC, Westminster council has also spent around £60,000 on security measures for a statue the street artist installed in central London in April

Reeve will become chief executive officer of the organisation at which he started his career

Currently the director of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Hillings worked on the Abu Dhabi project from 2009 to 2018

‘Free museums and galleries are a fundamental part of London life’, says the long-serving Labour mayor in a new op-ed

The strike across the east London museums will occur on 11 and 12 August as Prospect union pledges to step up industrial action across the heritage sector this summer

The Unesco World Heritage site, located in northwest England, is home to the UK's largest telescope

V&A staff represented by the Public and Commercial Services Union are also considering industrial action