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  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Barclays PLC
    Barclays suspends sponsorship of UK music festivals after threatened boycotts

    Decision will spark further debate over political activism and funding for the arts

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  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    UK music festivals face artist boycott over Barclays sponsorship deals

    Bands threaten to pull out of events weeks after Baillie Gifford cut ties with literary festivals

    A large crowd in front of one of the stages at last year’s Latitude Festival in Suffolk
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
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    Hidden treasures: a short history of the mews

    Originally built to house animals, the tiny properties are now beloved of celebrities and artists, a secluded oasis of peace in the city

  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Lex
    The case for rethinking UK arts funding is getting stronger Premium content

    Ending of Baille Gifford’s partnerships with literary festivals is another blow for the sector

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  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Baillie Gifford & Co
    Baillie Gifford in crisis talks with UK book festivals after boycott threats

    Asset manager discussing viability of sponsorship of literary events in wake of Hay and Edinburgh splits

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  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    InterviewThe CEO
    How the British Library’s Roly Keating managed a major cyber attack

    The former BBC executive made it his mission to bring the nation’s book collection online — then disaster struck

    Roly Keating stands in front of a black metal door with ‘The King’s Librarary’ embossed on it and you can see shelves of books through the glass panels around the door
  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    James Purnell
    Creative industries need another Great British Rebrand

    Blair’s Cool Britannia wasn’t just champagne and blinis in Downing Street — our exporters need a similar boost today

  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    National Archives
    Blair government sought treaty to share Parthenon marbles with Greece

    Attempts to resolve 200-year dispute were blocked by British Museum, newly released documents show

    The Parthenon marbles on display at the British Museum
  • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
    British Museum
    British Museum strikes £50mn sponsorship deal with BP

    Funding part of £1bn refurbishment of institution but campaign groups criticise decision to renew partnership

    People walking out of the museum’s entrance
  • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
    British Museum
    British Museum to digitise records after theft of treasures

    Chair George Osborne says institution was ‘victim of inside job’ over decades

    The British Museum
  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    ReviewVisual Arts
    The National’s Scottish galleries reopen with light and space but need to tell a better story

    First-rate works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Scottish Colourists are on show, even if the narrative is muddled

    Gallery assistants re-hang a painting of a stag roaming a mountainside
  • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
    The Big Read
    The crisis at the British Museum

    The theft of 2,000 items risks undermining the institution’s founding purpose as a custodian of the world’s treasures

    View of two people from behind looking up at ancient Greek sculptures in the museum
  • Saturday, 26 August, 2023
    British Museum
    Osborne promises full stock take of British Museum’s artefacts as thefts row escalates

    Institution’s chair says up to 2,000 items are missing after it failed to act on warnings

  • Saturday, 26 August, 2023
    News in-depthSocial affairs
    Notting Hill Carnival marks 75 years of Caribbean culture in Britain

    As 2mn revellers prepare to party, this weekend’s event has special resonance for descendants of the Windrush generation

  • Friday, 25 August, 2023
    British Museum
    British Museum director quits in wake of theft of artefacts

    Hartwig Fischer steps down admitting institution faces situation of the ‘utmost seriousness’

    Hartwig Fischer
  • Sunday, 14 May, 2023
    Visual Arts
    Unknown Rembrandt portraits unearthed after 200 years

    Rare works by Dutch master discovered by chance in UK family’s private collection

  • Friday, 31 March, 2023
    Visual Arts
    Reynolds masterpiece set to be secured for public in groundbreaking deal

    ‘Portrait of Mai’, valued at £50mn, will be shared equally by two galleries in London and Los Angeles

  • Friday, 24 February, 2023
    News in-depth
    Mobile gallery brings art to England’s culturally starved communities

    Touring exhibition aims to find new audiences for prized masterpieces

  • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
    David Bowie
    David Bowie’s vast archive donated to V&A Museum

    More than 80,000 items, many never seen in public before, will be held at new hub in east London

    David Bowie during the Ziggy Stardust Tour in 1972-73
  • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
    Veronica Ryan wins 2022 Turner Prize

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

    Veronica Ryan with her sculptures
  • 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

    The English National Opera presents Leos Janacek’s ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ at the London Coliseum
  • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
    Jemima Kelly
    The case for creative destruction

    Vandalising works of art can sometimes expand our horizons

    Ben Hickey illustration of a gold framed picture hanged on the wall with a red paint leaking down from the frame
  • 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

    The New Library at Magdalene College
  • 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

    A woman sits on a step next to metal railings outside a brick building
  • 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

    The Edinburgh Fringe festival
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