New Affordable Art Fair UK boss
Elizabeth Dellert, exhibitor services manager at Frieze Masters since 2015, is the new UK director of the Affordable Art Fair.
Media magnate chairs British Council
The advertising and media entrepreneur Stevie Spring has been appointed chair of the British Council by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, it was announced today. She succeeds Christopher Rodrigues.
Secrets of Leonardo’s Virgin
The latest imaging technology has revealed details of previous attempts before Leonardo finalised his composition of one of the National Gallery’s most popular paintings, The Virgin of the Rocks.
Auntie's year of a good read…
The BBC is committing airtime across all its media to literature for a year, with partnerships with libraries and reading groups across the country.
Strike planned at Science Museum
Ballot on industrial action at Museum of London too
Call for London slavery museum
A call for a London slavery museum by the Fabian Society has been supported by London’s mayor, Sadiq Khan.
NMS’s Rintoul to stand down
The director of National Museums Scotland, Gordon Rintoul, is to stand down after 18 transforming years in the job.
Major boost for Cromwell Museum
Huntingdon’s Cromwell Museum is to get a £160,000 revamp.
Fears over future of Merthyr’s Redhouse
Artists accuse managers of ‘running venue down’
£10m bid to save late Turner
An export stop has been put on one of J M W Turner’s most famous watercolours, The Dark Rigi.
