Ukrainian-born mining billionaire Viktor Vekselberg lent the first Imperial Easter egg to the London museum through his foundation

But UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport defends the nationwide initiative, saying that it will help create jobs

Scheduled to open in 2024, Palazzo Diedo will house an exhibition and art residency space

Culture ministry initiative will offer three-month residencies and an emergency telephone service

The 25-lot sale tomorrow includes works that reflect "how irrational, how ugly, and how challenging the modern world can be"

Auction houses, galleries, online platforms and artists are selling works for charities helping those affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Here is a selection

The partnership, signed in February, will focus on collaborations in the film, museum and heritage sectors between the two nations

Restitution agreement must still be approved by the museum's Board of Regents

In a new book Farah Nayeri says that “cancel culture” is nothing new, politics and art have always been intertwined—but now it is citizens, not kings and popes, who call the shots

Both artists will feature in the main exhibition titled The Milk of Dreams

Our roundup of the latest art publications

The artist and designer tells us about his new memoir, which details growing up in Birmingham and taking his mum to a museum for the first time to see his installation of her bedroom

Sinister besuited figure, painted in Monaco in 1946, was only recently rediscovered

Copy of 1997 work erected on street, renamed to honour alleged human rights victims in China

Ian Blatchford received the Pushkin Medal from Russia's president in 2015 after he led an exhibition of Soviet spacecraft and artefacts

Government-funded initiative Unboxed costs £120m and will include an oil rig installation from the North Sea

Phillips will sell 16 works in aid of the London University institution tomorrow

Cimam is demanding "greater clarity" over the reasons for Alistair Hudson’s proposed removal

Imperial Fabergé eggs and Impressionist masterpieces are some of the works currently in shows in Europe

As debate over controversial monuments rages on, new project will be part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival culture programme linked to the Commonwealth Games

Controversial political figure was in post for eight years from 2012

More than 20 artists have withdrawn from British Art Show 9 in support of "political freedom, and artistic expression in cultural institutions and universities across the UK"

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries wants to redress "huge historic imbalance" in regional investment but mayor Sadiq Khan says it is "a devastating blow" to the creative sector

Alistair Hudson, head of the Whitworth, leaves over text in Forensic Architecture's show last year

Spokeswoman for the oil company says it is looking at new ways to best use its resources in order to become net-zero by 2050

Project shines a light on the cultural exchange between Algeria, France and Italy during the 1960s

Former electric substation converted into contemporary art hub by Pudil Family Foundation

BP or not BP demonstrated against the museum's partnership with the oil giant over the weekend

Several of her works are held in the British Museum collection and a major public work stands outside Paris's Institut du monde arabe

London gallery says it never meant to "present an insensitive or dismissive attitude" to mental health issues