As part of The Grand Tour, a Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire initiative connecting historic collections with contemporary art, the artist Pablo Bronstein has brought some Chatsworth House bling to the white cube gallery spaces of Nottingham Contemporary. Wayne Burrows finds out why.
The ongoing dispute at The National Gallery, London, will be debated in the House of Commons today.
Millions needed to prevent landscape painting of Mediterranean bay from 1880s – on loan to Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum for the last 29 years – being exported.
Over 180,000 people have visited the newly expanded Manchester gallery since it reopened in February following the completion of £15m refurbishment, smashing its previous highest annual visitor figure in just three months.
The public has decided which museums and galleries are to host six artists for the Connect! Museums at Night festival in October.
The dispute about privatisation of jobs at the National Gallery continues with PCS union members planning further demonstrations and strike action over the next two weeks following the sacking of union representative Candy Udwin.
The recently re-furbished Whitworth in Manchester and Belfast’s The MAC are among the contenders for this year’s Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year.
The British Museum director says he plans to retire from the role at the end of the year and embark on a number of new projects, including a series for Radio 4 on faith in society and advisory roles in Germany and India.
Penelope Curtis, director of Tate Britain, is leaving London to take up a new role in Portugal.
The current deputy director of Madrid’s Prado museum has been announced as the new director of the National Gallery, London.
Staff at The National Gallery in London are planning a second five-day strike against privatisation starting on Sunday.
After a £15m redevelopment, Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery reopens with a stunning redesign that has doubled its size and opened it up to the public park it backs on to. All the better for displaying new shows by artists including Cornelia Parker, Sarah Lucas and Thomas Schütte, reports Bob Dickinson.
Staff at the National Gallery in London start a five-day strike today in protest at plans to privatise jobs.
Front-of-house staff at Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London have launched a petition in protest at a raft of proposed redundancies at the 200-year-old gallery.
Tate has released figures showing the level of sponsorship it has received from BP from 1990 up to the end of 2006, following a three-year legal battle by campaigners.
Former Tate Modern and Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Nicholas Cullinan is to take over from Sandy Nairne as director of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
The Museums Association’s Cuts Survey 2014 reveals that more public collections are at risk following the negative impact that four years of cuts have had on the sector.
The £40,000 Contemporary Art Society Annual Award for an artist working within a museum has been won by Nathaniel Mellors in partnership with Preston’s Harris Museum.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park announced as winner of £100,000 prize.
Matt’s Gallery in London is celebrating its 35th anniversary with a fundraising party and tombola where even the event’s tickets are a limited edition artwork.
As part of an exhibition marking the 250th anniversary of William Hogarth’s death and featuring work by David Hockney, Yinka Shonibare MBE and Grayson Perry, Jessie Brennan is exhibiting a series of newly commissioned drawings of the soon to be demolished Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar. She talks about the project.
The Art Fund has announced the six finalists for this year’s £100,000 Museum of the Year prize, with art galleries dominating the shortlist.
After a £10m redevelopment project, the new Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery opens today with artists’ commissions responding to its permanent collection and a launch exhibition of work from Frank Cohen’s collection.
Following a public vote, the 10 winning institutions have been revealed who will each be hosting a different contemporary artist for the Museums at Night weekend in May.
The Connect10 shortlist, matching artists with heritage and arts venues for Museums at Night events in May 2014, has been unveiled, ahead of two weeks of public voting beginning next week.
