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MP calls for region where Battle of Hastings took place to be included in events surrounding return of artworkThe MP for Hastings and Rye has called on the British Museum to let the Bayeux tapestry spend time in “1066 country” when it comes to the UK, …
Ex-PM among those saying they will take legal action over ‘covert’ plans to return sculptures to GreeceThe former British prime minister Liz Truss and a hard-right lobby group have been accused of stoking culture wars after putting their names to a let…
Retired rocker creates artworks to raise funds for Florida sanctuary for rescued apesFresh from his retirement concert with Black Sabbath at the weekend, Ozzy Osbourne has announced a new project: a visual art collaboration with chimpanzees.Osbourne is…
The embroidered work, depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, will go on display in London for the first time, on loan from France.
Show will include 30 monumental pieces displayed across gardens and 90 works filling Shirley Sherwood GalleryHenry Moore believed “sculpture is an art of the open air” and that his works should be seen in “almost any landscape, rather than in or on the…
Artwork and poems from contemporary artists and former Bethlem hospital patients to go on showThe vivid dream that vanishes on waking but fragments of which remain tantalisingly out of reach all day. Powerful emotions – tears, terror, ecstasy, despair …
Long-planned, £187,000 tribute to women who worked in shirt factories is criticised as too abstract and inaccurateAfter decades of debate over how to honour the women who used to work in the city’s shirt factories, Derry has produced a sculpture of thr…
Peak arts bodies urge review of decision that jeopardises institutions which are the ‘lifeblood’ of regional Australian cultural lifeGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThree out of four regional public art galleries in New South Wales are facin…
The Poo-tastic Tasmanian Paint Off asks artists to use a unique medium to paint portraits of people they admireKarin Koch was inspired to start the world’s first animal poo painting competition after purchasing a large and highly detailed painting crea…
The damage to a centuries-old painting in the Italian museum was just one of many tourist incidents raising ire on the continent.