April 3, 2026

UK Art

UK Art

Controversial horror debuts with near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score despite causing vomiting

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free The gory new horror movie Terrifier 3 comes with a warning after prompting walk-outs and vomiting, but audiences don’t seem to mind

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What do Kinky Boots, Nobu and the Dolby Theatre have in common? Hit architect David Rockwell

Le Périgord, a white-tablecloth-type French restaurant in New York (Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor dined there together in 1964), which he reimagined as a junior architect in three weeks, was a game-changer for his career: “I didn’t know enough to say that’s impossible so I worked around the clock and did it. Then I was

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Parkway Drive announce 20th Anniversary EU/UK tour feat Thy Art Is Murder and The Amity Affliction

Parkway Drive have announced they’ll be touring the EU/UK in 2025, celebrating 20 years as a band. Support for the tour will come from fellow Australian countrymen Thy Art Is Murder and The Amity Affliction. Presale tickets available tomorrow, Wednesday, October 16th at 11am CET / 10am UK time. General tickets on Sale Friday, October

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UK collections boosted by Frieze art fair acquisitions

A number of UK collections have bought new works through acquisition funds created in partnership with the Frieze art fairs, which took place in London on 9-13 October. Over the five days of Frieze London and Frieze Masters, the fairs welcomed 90,000 visitors from more than 110 countries worldwide. More than 270 galleries from 43

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Tracey Emin takes swipe at Damien Hirst: Artist says ‘bad boy of British art’ and his male counterparts become less of a creative ‘force’ at age of 40

He was once the king of controversy in the British art world, but Damien Hirst has been declared a spent force by Dame Tracey Emin – who believes all male artists suffer a creative decline in their 40s. Hirst, 59, shot to fame in the 90s with controversial works such as Mother and Child, Divided,

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UK art world figures call for government support to decarbonise sector

Figures from the UK art world have called on the Labour government to provide support to galleries, museums and artists to decarbonise and help the country reach its net zero goals. With the UK budget due be announced on 30 October, the art sector is hoping to see the chancellor, Rachel Reeves follow the lead taken

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British Library Slowly Recovers Following Cyberattack

Following a cyberattack on the British Library‘s digital systems last October, officials there have reported that key services are slowly being restored. Roughly 1,000 digitized manuscripts can now be accessed online, including the Eadui Psalter (ca. 1012–23), which contains texts used by Medieval Benedictine monks, as well as an illustrated bestiary with additions from Gerald of Wales’s Topographia

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Dame Tracey Emin says male artists ‘peak’ in their 40s but women can ‘come and come and come’

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Dame Tracey Emin says male artists peak in their forties, but women have the ability to create powerful works for

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Art meets commerce at business school

Yvette Sánchez receives regular lucrative offers for works in the art collection she oversees, from international auction houses to rich Gulf buyers. But she refuses them all, respecting the way the collection was assembled and its purpose today. Sánchez works at the University of St Gallen, the Swiss business school founded in the late 19th

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UK Seeks State-of-the-Art Forensic Science

Advances in digital forensics using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and better data science have not been matched by those adopted in “wet” forensics. There is a hypothesis that using digital approaches can further techniques used and explored for wet.  The Accelerated Capability Environment (ACE) was asked to help build a better understanding of what

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