Director Nicholas Cullinan and architect Jamie Fobert reveal how the gallery’s controversial three-year closure will transform its 600-year collection of portraits

Dispute centres on zero-hours contracts, pay devaluation, rising workloads and the gender and ethnicity pay gap

But the clause is unlikely to refer to the ancient Greek sculptures in the British Museum, expert says

The Conservative MP for Hertsmere in Hertfordshire replaces Nicky Morgan

Jonty Bravery said he wanted to “push somebody off” more than a year ago

Sculptures are a ‘preview’ of a public commission by Laurence Edwards due to be unveiled in Doncaster in May

The Serpentine Galleries' artistic director will reduce his flying 'very significantly' as the London institution goes green to mark its 50th anniversary

Popular gallery was on the chopping block in latest budget option review

Leaving the EU will make business with its member states more difficult but is likely to offer opportunities further afield, says former MEP Daniel Dalton

From Richard Artschwager's huge exclamation point, to David Shrigley's thumb, here are some of the most appropriate artistic responses to this historic moment

Nicholas Cullinan, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, responds to criticism about the museum's three-year closure

A lawyer's advice to art dealers, agents and galleries who could be unprepared for the hastily enforced new regulations

Street artist posts video of the work praising passersby in Birmingham for stopping and offering food and drink to a man sleeping rough

Building was considered an audacious architectural experiment when it was built in 1797

Millionaire Jonathan Ruffer’s ambitious regeneration of a small former mining town in northern England reveals 1,000 years of history and art

Concurrent exhibitions at Hastings Contemporary and Turps track the influences of the Slade and Bacon to the playfulness of his later works

Artist’s Californian cloudscape, drawn in chalk, hangs in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

As shadow minister for the arts 15 years ago, Johnson laid out his plans in The Art Newspaper

Liverpool slavery museum keen to collaborate on project highlighting UK’s involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade

Most were scientific materials, but 69,000 went to cultural venues

The watercolour painting, considered one of the artist's finest works, was sold to a private collector in 2006

Trisha Brown, Samson Young and James Richards are among the highlights of this year's cultural offering in the Scottish capital

Public can take a dip in the intricate Gateway pool at Jupiter Artland park in Edinburgh

Remain campaigner has said that schoolchildren who focus on arts and humanities are limiting their career choices

From his mother to his partners, the UK's new prime minister has been surrounded by people in the arts

No deal prospect and track record as London Mayor scrutinised

Bristol exhibition reveals Ian Weldon's documentary approach to "all the indiscretions, bad dancing and excessive behaviour" of a British wedding

Three huge silk and wool works depicting England’s Midland counties have been painstakingly preserved by the Bodleian Library and the National Trust

The Cardiff museum is the first Welsh winner of the £100,000 prize, beating other finalists including V&A Dundee and Pitt Rivers Museum

Hill House in Helensburgh has been covered to protect it from the rain while National Trust makes conservation plans