Ashmolean Museum raises £4.8m to keep rare Fra Angelico work in UK
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has raised £4.48m to prevent a rare Italian Renaissance painting from leaving the country after two centuries.Fra Angelico’s The...
A Restless Restitution in Africa
Three years ago, 26 royal objects looted by French troops in the 1890s were returned from Paris’s Musée du Quai Branly to the former...
From straw hats to milk bottles: why genius design doesn’t need to be expensive
Visitors to this year’s London design festival can expect to see everything from an installation inspired by Barbie’s Dreamhouse to an exhibition devoted to...
Put levy on smartphones to help creatives survive AI threat, top UK artists tell Labour
More than 4,000 artists have called on the government to create a levy on smartphone sales to fund visual art in the face of...
Austrian town gets its lederhosen in a twist over modern art
I’m walking through the town of Bad Aussee, in Austria’s alpine Salzkammergut region, where I’m expecting a vision of depravity to emerge through the...