Liberate Tate and Greenpeace are currently collaborating to try and make an intervention in the sentencing of the Just Stop Oil activists who threw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers. The judge sentencing them on the 27th of September has threatened custodial sentences and recently sent other JSO activists to jail. Phoebe and Anna, the two

The open prison could be used by the more serious Albanian offenders transferred from the UK towards the end of their sentences. Under the two-year deal, the criminals – all serving more than four-year sentences – complete their jail terms in Albania at a cost of £32 a day compared with £109 a day in the UK.

The Scottish artist Jame St Findlay has won the Claridge’s Royal Academy Schools Art Prize. The prize, now in its second year, sees £30,000 awarded annually to a graduating student at the Royal Academy Schools (RA) in London, and includes a solo exhibition supported by Claridge’s hotel. “The Royal Academy and Claridge’s are both committed

Three Just Stop Oil supporters have denied criminal damage on two Van Gogh paintings after soup was thrown at them. The paintings, both versions of Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, were targeted at the National Gallery on Friday. Hours earlier, two Just Stop Oil activists were jailed for pouring soup over a Sunflowers by the Dutch

Away from the cameras and busy press conference rooms, and the immediacy of a game just played, there is an opportunity for a manager to reflect a little more. Speaking with Fabian Hurzeler at Brighton & Hove Albion’s training ground alongside a small group of reporters, following a brilliant start to life on the south

All primary-school aged children in the UK will be taught how to “read” art during a special visual literacy week running until 6 October. According to Art UK, the charity behind the initiative, the scheme will enable children aged 7-11 to “cope with today’s image-saturated world”. Visual Literacy Week is comprised of a series of

Welcome artists to BBA’s biggest exhibition ever! We are searching the globe for the best of the best to be part of our anniversary event. Is one of them you? BBA Prizes is turning 10. And double digits = double exhibition. We will be taking over the Kühlhaus in Berlin to present 20 artists and

Welcome photographers to BBA’s biggest exhibition ever! We are searching the globe for the best of the best to be part of our anniversary event. Are you the one? BBA Prizes is turning 10. And double digits = double exhibition. We will be taking over the Kühlhaus in Berlin to present 20 artists and 20

You would think that there were dozens of histories of British art out there, along the lines of an art history course I came across titled ‘Caveman to Picasso’. Oddly, there are not, and those that exist cannot always be trusted. This most enjoyable book is an exception. Bendor Grosvenor says in his introduction, ‘The

The future of universities already decimated by corporate interests hangs in the balance as tuition fees look set to rise  Is it ever not the moment to lament the fortunes of arts education in Britain? To deplore a decades-long, cross-party experiment in running universities and colleges as if they were corporate entities? To roll our