NewsBuilding projects
Miami’s Art Center/South Florida gets a new facility—and a new name
Oolite Arts is due to move from Miami Beach to a purpose-built space on the mainland
NewsLaw
National Gallery's art educators owed same rights as permanent staff, London tribunal rules
NG27 group's case is described as first in public sector to address concerns over “gig economy” but museum says there will be implications
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
NewsEducation
Oxford museums train refugees as tour guides and community curators
Berlin’s Multaka programme of Arabic-language tours is spreading to the UK—and beyond
BlogDiary of an art historian
Tate, WTF is up with you using Wikipedia?
Once an expert authority on Van Dyck, the museum now has nothing more to say about him than a link to an unverified website
NewsFrieze London 2018
Christie's to auction works by Grenfell victim Khadija Saye
Profits from the sale will support new UK arts education programme in 2019
NewsEducation
Art Fund's new student pass scheme offers 500 paid jobs in culture sector
UK non-profit's plan may draw in young crowds which are a target demographic for museums
NewsEducation
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
NewsPrizes
Read the winning essays in new UK prize for art history writing
Write on Art initiative was launched to combat the decline of arts teaching in schools
NewsMuseums
Art educators take London's National Gallery to employment tribunal in 'gig economy' dispute
Artists and lecturers are crowdfunding for legal fees in bid to win employee status
NewsMuseums
Programme of paid internships aims to make US museum staff more diverse
Association of Art Museum Directors launches scheme to provide undergraduate students from minority backgrounds with hands-on experience
NewsArt market
New initiative aims to increase social mobility and diversity in the art industry
Easel will offer careers information, a mentorship programme and a grant scheme to subsidise low wages in entry level roles
NewsEducation
$1m award-winning teacher brings high-profile artists and cultural figures into deprived London schools
Andria Zafirakou’s Artists in Residence campaign launches as creative arts are squeezed in UK classrooms
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
NewsMuseums
Royal Academy launches new £34,000 postgraduate course. But who can afford it?
The institution is entering the lucrative world of branded education
NewsMuseums
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston opens new Glassell School of Art building
Education is the MFAH’s “first and enduring mission”, says director Gary Tinterow
FeatureRoyal Academy
How the Royal Academy Schools shook off their fusty image
Once seen as a bastion of tradition ignored by young artists, the institution's postgraduate fine art course has become the most desirable in London
NewsPhilanthropy
Russian billionaire’s Peri Foundation will keep paying for culture after arrest
It is business as usual, says the organisation’s director, as its founder, Ziyavudin Magomedov, remains in custody awaiting trial on racketeering charges
NewsEducation
Open letter signed by over 100 artists, including Grayson Perry, slates UK’s education policy
New Ebacc qualification marginalises the arts and damages the future of young people in the country, say Turner prize winners
NewsVideo, film & new media
TED-style art history platform aims to promote arts education online
Heni Talks features videos from artists including Damien Hirst and Jeremy Deller
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
NewsPrizes
New prize looks to put art history back on UK’s academic agenda
Judges, including Jeremy Deller, hope that Write on Art will inspire young people to take up the subject
NewsOpenings
Princeton University celebrates new Lewis Center for the Arts
College’s first purpose-built arts facility was a decade in the making
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
News
New professorial position at UK university dedicated to contemporary art and culture of the Middle East
Editor and academic Anthony Downey will establish a postgraduate programme in partnership with organisations in the region
CommentSaudi Arabia
Letter to the Editor: Saudi Arabia will collaborate with the world, not only France, to make its cultural heritage accessible
Al-Ula, the most important cultural heritage site in the north-west of the kingdom, will benefit from international standards in heritage preservation and planning
Amr AlMadani