Rare early work Going to the Mill is to be auctioned after remaining in the Wallace family since 1926When LS Lowry sold one of his earliest paintings to the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian in 1926, he had an immediate...
Read MoreLeading figures including Tom Dixon and Sebastian Conran add voices to criticism of government’s AI opt-out proposalA proposed overhaul of copyright law risks “running roughshod” over a British design industry...
Read MoreArtist found dead at his apartment in Nice in southern France on Saturday, his publicist saysThe self-taught Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, who became hugely popular despite being shunned by critics, has been found dead at his...
Read MoreExclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privatelyAnalysis: Who is ‘working class’ and why does it matter in the arts?Interviews: Nine working-class creatives on class in...
Read MoreJanette Rosing built up pioneering trove of 8,000 images dating back to the early days of the Industrial RevolutionSome of the oldest photographs in England which show the country’s transformation after the industrial...
Read MoreThe French president, Emmanuel Macron, also announced a ‘new grand entrance’, funded by the museum’s own resourcesThe Mona Lisa, the world’s most famous portrait, is to get a room of its own in the...
Read MoreWork that made its creator a superstar then mysteriously disappeared is mesmerising art lovers once moreIt was commissioned by a Greek king, made its creator a superstar and in his native Denmark attracted crowds like no other...
Read MoreAbstract expressionist’s mysterious painting joins portraits by Warhol, Bacon and Hockney in Bath exhibitionThe image of the young boy is so faint that it is easy to miss – but if you gaze long enough he gradually...
Read MoreExhibition in Bristol, the city of her birth, celebrates Paule Vézelay whose ascent was stymied by sexism and warBritain’s “first” abstract artist, whose legacy has mostly been obscured because of a...
Read MoreThe competition’s youngest contestant scoops the award for animating everyday objects to reflect the pluralities of identity and communityJasleen Kaur has won the 2024 Turner prize for her work animating everyday objects...
Read MoreEnclosure older than Salisbury monument found under late novelist’s garden is given heritage protectionWhen the author Thomas Hardy was writing Tess of the D’Urbervilles in 1891, he chose to set the novel’s...
Read MorePainting that hung in former PM’s study since 2009 no longer there – but aides are tightlipped as to whereaboutsIn a summer punctuated by an election and then riots there has not really been a “silly...
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