Skip to main content
Arts and culture

News and communications

Skip to results

3,446 results

Skip to results
3,446 results sorted by Updated (newest)
  • Capital Grant scheme open for listed places of worship

    Funding worth £1.1m available to all denominations and faiths across the UK

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Leading artists head the line-up for the London 2012 Festival

    First group of commissions unveiled.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • One year to London 2012 Festival

    Tracey Emin to be among leading artists who will design Olympic and Paralympic posters to be shown in a free exhibition as part of festival

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Shonibare’s ‘Ship’ aims to set sail to Greenwich

    National Maritime Museum and the Art Fund ask for your help to secure ‘fourth plinth’ piece.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Detail of extended grant scheme announced

    Changes to Listed Places of Worship grants will come into effect in autumn.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Manet portrait saved for the nation

    Oxford museum acquires nineteenth century work.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Bells mark start of the 2012 Games

    Big Ben was among the bells that rang in unison around the UK at 8.12am today.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • ‘And in the end...’: the Abbey Road zebra crossing is listed

    The world-famous zebra crossing near Abbey Road Studios in London has been listed Grade II by John Penrose Minister for Tourism and Heritage

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • £15.9 million for museum redevelopment

    Heritage Lottery Fund announces latest awards for the sector.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Public to enjoy £10m worth of treasures saved from export

    Thomas Hardy typescripts, a Welsh landscape by William Dyce and the archives of political radical Thomas Walker are among treasures saved

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Rude Britannia

    Exhibition of British Comic Art at Tate Britain, 9 June - 5 September

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Government backs video games industry

    Ed Vaizey supports London Games Festival.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Distinctive landscapes in line for funding

    £20m of funding set aside for conservation projects.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • The J G Ballard archive

    The archive of J G Ballard, one of the most visionary British writers of the twentieth century, has been acquired by the nation.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Museums must think creatively about the future

    Ed Vaizey sets out the future policy direction for museums

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • DCMS cuts quangos

    Nineteen public bodies to be abolished or reformed.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Exposed

    New Tate Modern exhibition examines ‘Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera’.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Turner Prize heads to Northern Ireland

    UK City of Culture 2013 attracts top art prize as recruitment opens for Director and Board.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Rare silverware to stay in UK

    An eighteenth century silver wine cooler has been kept in the country after a successful fundraising campaign.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Giving White Paper

    Plans to make philanthropy easier.

    • Updated:

    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government