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Revealed: Secretive corporate group guiding British Museum
Leading figures from large corporations, including oil giant BP, are members of an influential but almost entirely unaccountable group advising the British Museum in secretive meetings, Channel 4 News can reveal.
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Fortnite launches first virtual art show
The online game Fortnite is a smash hit with young gamers, with an estimated 400 million players worldwide.
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Kehinde Wiley on reclaiming the space once occupied by aristocrats
He’s the American artist who made his name with his official portrait of Barack Obama.
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Science Museum signed gagging clause with subsidiary of coal and energy giant Adani
Dozens more leading scientists have signed a joint letter saying they will no longer work with the Science Museum in London, over its financial links with an arm of energy and coal giant Adani.
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COP26: Climate activists out in force as Glasgow summit begins
Greta Thunberg has accused the summit delegates of failing to take the crisis seriously enough.
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Actor Timothy Spall on emerging as an artist after J.M.W. Turner role
After learning how to paint for one of his roles, the celebrated actor Timothy Spall has turned artist himself.
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Arts sector given £1.5 billion support package by UK government
The government is handing more than £1.5 billion in emergency funds to major arts venues, like theatres, galleries and museums – in an effort to shore up their future.
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Up close with Australia’s volunteer firefighters
To Australia now, where the national gallery in Canberra has closed until further notice to protect its priceless artworks from smoke coming from bushfires burning in New South Wales.
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Street artist Shepard Fairey: ‘Without hope, people don’t act’
The image that sums up Barack Obama’s inaugural presidential campaign – and, perhaps the most famous work by street artist Shepard Fairey, who’s made a thirty year career out of his uplifting, progressive designs – creating images that went viral, before there was such a thing as viral. Now along with an exhibition of his…
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Sir Antony Gormley on his Royal Academy exhibition
He is internationally renowned for creating iron sculptures of his own body. Now Sir Antony Gormley, one of our greatest living artists, has a new solo exhibition at London’s Royal Academy. It includes new works and many old ones dating back to the 70s. His fascination with the body and its place in the world…
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Black Sabbath on why Midlands is heavy metal capital of UK
Heavy metal was born in the West Midlands. From the late 1960s, when the industrial furnaces still roared, ears began bleeding to the sounds of Judas Priest, Led Zeppelin and many more.
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Polish government accused of ‘cultural purge’ in World War museum row
The Polish Government has found itself accused of a ‘Cultural Purge’ after the boss of the country’s World War II Museum was sacked.
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Black History Month: the politics of racial representation
Thirty-one years ago, if you’d looked down from the House of Commons visitors’ gallery at the people on the green benches below, they’d have all – without exception – have been white. Today 52 of 650 MPs are from a black or minority ethnic background. That’s 8%. Better than it was, but when you consider…
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Lost Childhood: artist Robi Walters’ early trauma
In the second part of our series, Lost Childhood, we have an insight into what shaped the artist Robi Walters – and the catastrophic event which he says will forever define his life and work.
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Kettle’s Yard: where Syrian artist and photographer who died in Grenfell are on display
From a talented young photographer who died in the Grenfell fire to a Syrian artist whose work has been inspired by the refugee crisis: they’re all part of a new show which opens at the Kettle’s Yard gallery in Cambridge this weekend. Featuring 38 artists, the exhibition sets out to explore the role of art…