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Jarman award shortlist 2021 tackles and transcends the Covid pandemic
A year locked up inside has done nothing to diminish the scale and scope of this year’s Jarman award nominees,…
V&A museum’s new 20th and 21st Century gallery is refitted
In November 2019, after almost 30 years, the V&A’s 20th Century gallery closed its doors. Split across the same…
Backdrops to a riot: JR on how his confrontational street art went global
His portraits of his Paris neighbourhood summed up its residents’ anger. Now his subversive installations…
Archibald prize turns 100: love it or hate it, it reflects a changing nation
In January 1953, a group of students marched into the Art Gallery of New South Wales to protest the Archibald…
Two UK galleries to share portrait of German doctor who resisted Nazis
A portrait of a German-Jewish doctor who became active in a circle of intellectuals secretly resisting the Nazis…
British Museum helps return 2,000-year-old looted statue to Libya
An illegally trafficked, incredibly rare 2,000-year-old marble statue of a Greek goddess has been returned to Libya…
The Great British Art Tour: Gladstone’s fallen woman gives life to Dante’s muse
Dante Alighieri is an Italian poet whose allegory The Divine Comedy, written between 1308 and the year of his death…
The Great British Art Tour: the birthplace of a future prime minister
An image that could have been made at the height of lockdown, this deserted street corner by Laurence Stephen Lowry…
The Great British Art Tour: a girl with a pearl earring
In the corridor of Polesden Lacey, Surrey, hangs a small, bust-length picture of a young woman. She wears a fine,…
Dutch police arrest man over £18m theft of Van Gogh and Hals paintings
Dutch police have arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of stealing paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Frans Hals…