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Tate Britain has announced that the new rehang, to be opened on May 23, will put an increased focus on female artists. Last week, Tate Britain announced that it will add more than 800 works from 350 artists as part of its new display in…

A large group of British workers from various organizations, including British Museum, will begin their strike from next month. Civil servants at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) and employees at the British…

The London-based National Portrait Gallery has been raising almost $58 million to buy an 18th-century painting by Joshua Reynolds. Titled Portrait of Omai (1776), the work features a man called Omai, who was from Tahiti. In the late 18th…

In a historic first, the Glasgow Museums in Scotland became the first museum in the United Kingdom to return stolen objects to India. The ceremony occurred on Friday last week at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. It was attended by…

The U.K. government has placed a temporary export ban on a masterpiece by Bernardo Bellotto, in an attempt to keep the work within the country. The work in question is View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi (1745-47) by Bellotto, which…

British artist Tracey Emin has demanded that her artwork More Passion be removed from 10 Downing Street, after UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s flaunting of COVID protocol. Tracey Emin posted on Instagram that she has officially…

Friends of the National Libraries (FNL), a UK-based group, has raised $20.13 million (£15 million) to acquire a rare manuscript collection before the auction. The Honresfield Library collection, as it is named, is a trove of documents…

The Blue Boy, often considered the masterpiece of English artist Thomas Gainsborough, will returns to the UK exactly a century after it left. The Blue Boy was created by Gainsborough in the late 18th century. In 1922, the work was sold…