The UK’s secretary of state for culture, Lisa Nandy, has said that the government is in discussions with national museums about the repatriation of certain objects. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, Nandy said that ministers are already holding discussions with institutions including the British Museum, after its chair, the former chancellor George Osborne,
A Ukrainian artist trapped by the war has said it is a “miracle” his paintings are being exhibited and sold in the UK. Artwork by Michael Velychko, 30, who was born in Poltava in central Ukraine and now lives on a farm with his family, was shown at The Sentinel Gallery in Wivenhoe, Essex. The
The arts need funding, but will current proposals do anything more than create new gatekeepers? Protests over art funding cuts at the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, October 2023. Courtesy Alamy In the UK visual artists don’t make a great living from their work, while arts organisations have been faced with cuts or standstill-funding in recent years.
The microwave on top of the fridge isn’t screaming Rolex salary Leo from Love Is Blind was pretty much known for flexing his wealth (and his Rolex) on everyone he spoke to on the show. The infamous art dealer came from a lot of money, or so he told us. However, people have started stalking
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