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Nicholas Cullinan wins Critics' Circle Visual Arts Award

The director of London's National Portrait Gallery receives what organisers hope will soon be seen as an “Oscar” of the art world

Why has no one been invited to follow in the footsteps of Hollar, Lowry and Topolski as a coronation artist?

Music and poetry have been created to mark the crowning of Charles III as king, but—for the first time since the 17th century—there will be no official artist

Syrian painter Sara Shamma creates image of one of England's greatest—and most controversial—saints

No depictions exist of St Wilfrid of York, who was a well-travelled, pugnacious and ambitious young man and founder of the seventh-century Ripon Cathedral

Blockbuster British Museum exhibition will 'roll away' mysteries surrounding Stonehenge

Modern science and archaeological recontextualisation of the site will answer some long-looming questions, museum director Hartwig Fischer says

'Hurrah, it’s leprosy!' How a conservator and a historian are decoding the grisly tales in Canterbury Cathedral’s stained-glass windows

New research for British Museum exhibition means panels depicting St Thomas Becket's healing miracles will be correctly reassembled after centuries in the wrong order

Closure of London's Florence Nightingale Museum fuels fears that the pandemic will force smaller UK institutions to shut

Williamson Art Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead is also under threat of closure as part of cost-cutting measures by local council

Colourist painter and Royal Academician Philip Sutton opens new gallery—at the age of 92

Artist—who is now blind in one eye and lives in a sheltered care home—is launching a space in Bridport, England, to sell his own works

London’s Warburg Institute launches £14.5m expansion to revive the 'science of culture'

Research centre based on the library of German art historian Aby Warburg plans to open new public spaces in 2022