British arts institutions deployed “kneejerk” and “stopgap” responses in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter movement as they attempted to avoid criticism for the lack of diversity in their collections, according to the artist Gavin Jantjes. The South Africa-born artist, who was a key figure during the British black art movement of the 1980s,

In a new display at Tate Modern, four artists have debuted works created as part of efforts to diversify the UK’s national collections. In a 15-month residency programme, British-Nigerian interdisciplinary artist Evan Ifekoya, British Bajan transdisciplinary artist Christina Peake, British-Taiwanese artist and curator Yu-Chen Wang, and British-Singaporean artist and curator Erika Tan focused on expanding

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer may have clashed in their first TV election debate this week but the issue of the arts was omitted from the discussion. So The Art Newspaper contacted the main political parties to find out their plans. We received responses from Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal

Hayward Gallery Touring’s major group exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood will plunge into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the feminist avant-garde to the present day. While the Madonna and Child is one of the great subjects of European art, we rarely see

‘There used to be loads of little galleries near this studio, artist-run spaces and a few smaller commercial galleries. Pretty much all of them have gone now, priced out by spiralling rents,” says painter Cathy Lomax. We are chatting over tea in a large, light-filled space near the Trelawney estate, Hackney, which has served as

Roleff Kråkström, managing director of Moomin Characters Ltd, said Tove’s first Moomin book was written after she “lost her joy with painting” during World War Two. “The story is about a family where the father’s gone missing in The Great Flood,” he said. “It’s a story of refuge, it’s a displaced family and an allegory

Today Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, delivered the Autumn budget. Equity’s General Secretary, Paul W Fleming, commented on the Budget saying:   “The performing arts and entertainment workforce are critical to national growth and the new government’s industrial strategy. Our sectors stimulate local economies across the UK, boosting local businesses. “But twenty years of

Southampton City Art Gallery has successfully secured a £26,000 National Lottery project grant to digitise a major part of the art collection in partnership with Southampton Solent University 28/10/2024 The project is being supported using public funding by Arts Council England, through its Unlocking Collections campaign within National Lottery Project Grants, set out

The first evidence for drawing were found on rocks in the Blombos Caves in southern Africa and dates back to between 75,000 to 100,000 years ago. These consist of geometric patterns. The new painting, in the limestone cave of Leang Karampuang in the Maros-Pangkep region of South Sulawesi, shows representational art – an abstract representation

The British artist David Shrigley has returned to his Midlands secondary school almost 40 years after graduating to unveil an animatronic sculpture of a giant praying mantis, in the hope that it will spark a nationwide conversation about the “vital importance” of arts subjects. Mantis Muse, a three-metre-tall sculpture made from steel and fibreglass, was