Britain

Refugeesnews

UK minister orders mural be destroyed at asylum centre—artists rally to replace it

Robert Jenrick instructed Home Office staff to remove art created to soothe asylum-seeking children, charity boss says

Tom Seymour

Universitiesnews

UK's University of East Anglia to cut more than two dozen arts and humanities jobs

As part of its £30m cost-cutting initiative, the university is proposing to reduce staff numbers by a total of 113, a spokesperson says

Gareth Harris

Commissionsnews

Windrush 75th anniversary marked by series of royal art commissions including portraits by Sonia Boyce and Amy Sherald

Also commemorating the arrival of the vessel from the Caribbean is a new exhibition at London's V&A and a display in London's Piccadilly Circus

Gareth Harris

Arts fundingcomment

'Trite discussions about “regions” distract from UK’s fundamental arts funding problems'

Since the 1990s, governments have questioned the "value" of culture but policy is still failing the sector, says author and broadcaster John Kampfner

John Kampfner

Museums & Heritagenews

Previously declared at risk, the UK's ‘Stonehenge of the North’ is now open to the public

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak welcomes the project which tells ‘the story of ancient Britain’

Gareth Harris

Museums & Heritagecomment

'If a person of African descent wants a career in the arts—well, good luck'

Only by looking backwards can we start to tackle inequality in the arts sector, says Gus Casely-Hayford, the director of V&A East

Gus Casely-Hayford

Controversiesnews

Racism on walls of UK government? British Empire murals spark controversy

Politician raises concerns over Sigismund Goetze painting in the Foreign Office depicting Africa as a naked boy

Gareth Harris

Museums & Heritagepreview

In the Met’s British galleries, a tale of artisans spurred by entrepreneurial forces

Installation weaves a 400-year narrative with global and sometimes dark threads

Nancy Kenney

Antiquities & Archaeologyarchive

Commercial landowners in Britain almost always hand over to public museums archaeological discoveries made on their land, despite no legal obligation for them to do so. Their munificence has led to a chronic shortage of storage space.

This virtuous circle

Cristina Ruiz

Featuresarchive

A review of art in the UK media: Dumbing down or opening up?

The question of whether society gets the art it deserves, or merely what it is prepared to tolerate

Judith Bumpus

Lootingarchive

In an attempt to find works of art that may have been stolen by the Nazis ten British museums have named 350 works of art whose history between 1933 and 1945 is uncertain

British provenance probes

Martin Bailey

Media & broadcastarchive

Art in the media: The people’s painting—only what we deserve

Komar and Melamid reveal what we like, Tory politician Jeffrey Archer speculates in Warhols, fictional Bacon somewhat censored, and Britain’s own intellectual, Jonathan Miller, on reflection

Tom Flynn

Unescoarchive

The aspirations of Chris Smith, new Labour Secretary of State for National Heritage

Smith hopes for Britain to rejoin UNESCO, aiming divert Lottery funds to health and education

Martin Bailey

Art marketarchive

Sue Runyard on how to market the modern museum

A guide to selling the modern museum

Celina Fox

Alexander Calderarchive

The Royal Academy shows Calder in the first British show for thirty years

Underappreciated in Britain, the Sackler Galleries mobilise for this modern master

The Art Newspaper