Vietnamese paintings draw much attention of art lovers at the Affordable Art Fair 2024 At the fair, two galleries, namely Hanoi Art House and ArtBlue Studio, showcased a range of Vietnamese artworks, including lacquer, oil on canvas, and water colour paintings. Vietnamese paintings created by artists Thanh Chuong, Phuong Binh, Bui Trong Du, and Phan Thu

Three protesters have been charged with criminal damage and will appear in court after soup was thrown at two Vincent van Gogh paintings on Friday. Just Stop Oil activists poured soup over two paintings in the National Gallery, London, just hours after other members of the group were jailed for damaging the gold frame of

Paul Marshall, the hedge fund tycoon who co-owns the right-wing television channel GB News, has acquired Apollo magazine, one of the UK’s most established art journals. It is part of a £100m deal completed earlier this week for The Spectator magazine by Marshall’s company Old Queen Street Ventures (OQS). “Alongside The Spectator, renowned international art

Three of the pieces are inspired by The Cure’s new album ‘Songs Of A Lost World’ – the band’s first release in 16 years, out next month. Proceeds of the auction go to Heart Research UK. ADVERTISEMENT The Cure are back soon, with the legendary British gloom rockers releasing their first studio album in 16

Get ready for another impressive weekend of street art as the LOOK UP Portsmouth festival returns on Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 September! With over 100 murals planned and a diverse line-up of international and local talent, the weekend will once again transform Portsmouth into an open-air gallery. Created by local street artist My Dog

A new exhibition celebrating students and staff from the Rutland Adult Learning and Skills Service (RALSS) recently opened at Rutland County Museum. Students taking art classes at the RALSS adult learning centre at Oakham Enterprise Park, along with staff, have created a range of pieces that will be on show to members of the public

An influential UK think tank—the Fabian Society—is calling for children to spend at least 10% of their school week on arts activities, reversing the decline in arts provision within Britain’s state education system over the past decade. In a new report published today, Arts For Us All, the Arts and Creative Industries Policy Unit at the London-based

Dear Chris Bryant, Congratulations on becoming arts minister. Forgive this unsolicited advice on museum policy. Open letters to new arts ministers have become a tradition for this column, if only because the last government kept changing them. You are the tenth in ten years. You’ve already outlasted one of your predecessors, Syed Kamall, who managed

Everyone in Britain should be issued with a “universal library card” and children should spend 10% of their school time on arts activities, according to a new report. The Fabian Society’s Arts For Us All calls for Keir Starmer’s government to remove the “class ceiling” by democratising access to the arts in schools and ensure

A digital platform that seeks to bring together 100 million object records from collections across the UK launched last week (13 September), with organisers claiming the initiative will be “transformative” for curators, researchers, educators and more. The Museum Data Service (MDS) is a collaboration between the art education charity Art UK, the Collections Trust and