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    • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
      Veronica Ryan wins 2022 Turner Prize

      Judges impressed by ‘personal and poetic way she extends the language of sculpture’

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      Arts Council of England
      UK culture chief hits back at criticism to move arts funding out of London

      Lord Neil Mendoza insists British arts and media too focused on capital city

    • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
      Jemima Kelly
      The case for creative destruction

      Vandalising works of art can sometimes expand our horizons

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      Royal Institute of British Architects
      Cambridge university library wins Riba Stirling Prize

      Prestigious UK architecture award highlights growing trend for sustainable design

    • Monday, 10 October, 2022
      Visual Arts
      Artists who say: welcome to the museum of me

      Tracey Emin and Gilbert & George are among those planning to open galleries featuring their own work

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      News in-depth
      Edinburgh’s ‘vastly inflated costs’ anger performers as festivals return

      Organisers are confident the flagship event will revive the city’s creative spirit despite the tensions

    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
      Ministers urged to keep culturally important Reynolds painting in Britain

      Culture secretary to look ‘sympathetically’ on calls to extend export ban of Georgian masterpiece

    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
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    • Friday, 3 June, 2022
      Helen Barrett
      The secrets of Stonehenge could be locked for ever

      Digging a road tunnel risks losing archaeological clues buried at the 5,000-year-old site of pilgrimage

    • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
      Bradford named UK city of culture for 2025

      West Yorkshire city defeats County Durham, Wrexham and Southampton to title

    • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
      Tate Modern
      Tate Modern scales back size of shows to cut costs and emissions

      London gallery says it will look for partnerships with other institutions to save money

    • Friday, 15 April, 2022
      Personal Finance
      Crafts cost crunch threatens centuries-old skills

      Rising energy and materials bills squeeze traditional artisans

    • Friday, 1 April, 2022
      City of London
      City of London grandee’s collection of barometers goes up for sale

      Sir Nicholas Goodison was a driving force behind Big Bang reforms but also pursued cultural interests

    • Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
      BP PLC
      National Portrait Gallery ends BP sponsorship under pressure from activists

      London gallery becomes the latest UK cultural institution to sever fossil fuel links

    • Friday, 4 February, 2022
      British Museum
      Osborne taps backers to raise £1bn for ‘radical’ renovation of British Museum

      Government and private funding sought for modernisation of 170-year-old cultural institution

    • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
      ReviewArchitecture
      Theaster Gates is an inspired choice for this year’s Serpentine Pavilion

      The artist will combine the potteries of England and the spirit of Chicago in his structure

    • Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
      Miranda Green
      An East London night school that built an artistic movement

      Millions of ‘lost learners’ in the austerity decade missed the opportunity offered to working class painters in the 1920s

    • Monday, 22 November, 2021
      Non-fungible tokens
      Art by Anish Kapoor and David Bailey for sale as NFTs without their consent

      Some artists consider legal action as images marketed for millions of pounds

    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      UK Budget
      Crisis-hit museums and galleries welcome expansion of tax relief

      Treasury confirms additional funding of £850m for cultural institutions as they recover from pandemic

    • Friday, 18 June, 2021
      Theatre
      18 open-air theatres to visit across the UK

      From Cornwall to Perthshire, the pandemic has brought a surge in popularity of alfresco venues and productions

    • Friday, 28 May, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The show must go on but it needs insurance

      Performing arts’ contribution far exceeds the risk of guaranteeing cover

    • Friday, 26 March, 2021
      Merryn Somerset Webb
      Junior Isas or NFTs? Dangers lurking for the digital generation

      £9bn in child trust funds are maturing so let’s make it easier for their newly adult owners to carry on saving

    • Saturday, 20 March, 2021
      Sotheby’s to auction painting behind memorable artist vs patron spat

      Family portrait in the collection of the Mountbatten family embarrassed the man who commissioned it

    • Friday, 12 March, 2021
      Visual Arts
      Damien Hirst to join NFT art sale trend after $69m Beeple auction

      British artist plans to sell ‘secret art project’ using ‘non-fungible token’ digital technology later this year

    • Wednesday, 3 March, 2021
      UK Budget
      Arts and culture sector handed £408m funding boost

      Museums and theatres welcome grants but many have already cut operations and jobs

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