According to the BBC, Westminster council has also spent around £60,000 on security measures for a statue the street artist installed in central London in April

Reeve will become chief executive officer of the organisation at which he started his career

Currently the director of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Hillings worked on the Abu Dhabi project from 2009 to 2018

‘Free museums and galleries are a fundamental part of London life’, says the long-serving Labour mayor in a new op-ed

The strike across the east London museums will occur on 11 and 12 August as Prospect union pledges to step up industrial action across the heritage sector this summer

The Unesco World Heritage site, located in northwest England, is home to the UK's largest telescope

V&A staff represented by the Public and Commercial Services Union are also considering industrial action

Winners and their booking group will receive ‘a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to stand within the ancient stones with no one else around’ before opening hours

The latest museum in the Guggenheim network will open on 11 December 2026, twenty years after its original 2006 announcement

Undergraduate art students will be able to study for the jointly awarded degree based at the Norwich University of the Arts from September 2027

Founded in 1980, the organisation has also developed a Green Manifesto to guide artist members toward a more environmentally responsible practice

The Värmlands Vikingacenter in Sweden has reportedly not been able to sail its replica ship this summer due to $6000 worth of damages; Universal disputes the non-payment claims

The future of the iconic Art Nouveau building may be in jeopardy following fires in 2014 and 2018, as the Scottish art school looks for external funding

Currently the director of Dia Art Foundation in New York, Morgan will succeed Maria Balshaw as director of the UK museum network from January 2027

The artist was held in government custody before being expelled from Cuba while a human rights organisation filed a legal petition for his release

Exhibitions on chintz, ceramics, and pop culture will headline in South Kensington, while South Asian contemporary art and Vivienne Westwood will feature at the museum's east London and Dundee locations, respectively

Now part of the joint Artist Rooms collection, the 1980s works will go on show at Tate Modern in September as part of a free Robert Rauschenberg display

The medieval embroidery was delivered to the museum from France in the early hours of the morning ahead of the September exhibition opening

The new code provides revised principles on how institutions should handle issues ranging from education to their relationship to society

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The academic Daisy Dixon discusses her new book investigating the art that has provoked outrage over the centuries

Government awareness is increasing globally as the emphasis shifts from treatment towards prevention

A painting by the 18th-century artist was given to the museum by Dallas-based collectors Richard and Luba Barrett, alongside two other works

Tickets for this year's event will cost £3,500 a head to raise funds towards the museum's billion-pound transformation

Tickets to view the fragile medieval tapestry, which is on rare loan from France, are now sold out through the end of 2026, with further releases to come

Any closure of the museum's building “will be subject to a full review and consultation”, according to Amgueddfa Cymru (Museum Wales)

Designs by Grayson Perry and Yinka Shonibare will go on show across England and also be for sale to raise funds to support more artist commissions in psychiatric wards

The Public Accounts Committee scrutinises the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in its report, accusing the government department of a ‘lack of leadership’

Consigned from the holdings of Anita and Poju Zabludowicz, the £15.4m sale fell within estimate

The museum has been praised for the ambitious way it has shared its collections and for its social outreach