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Friday, 7 February, 2020

Pound Sterling
Decimal Day 50 years on: British Museum prepares to celebrate
Call for public to contribute memories of switch from pounds, shillings and pence
Thursday, 30 January, 2020

UK politics & policy
Parliament signs up to workplace complaints scheme
Guardians Programme created by The Old Vic allows confidential reports of abuse
Wednesday, 22 January, 2020

Artists and actors seek £3.5m to save Jarman beach house
Prospect Cottage where film-maker sought refuge is ‘a living, breathing work of art’
Friday, 10 January, 2020

William Shakespeare
Shakespeare First Folio to be auctioned for first time in 20 years
One of the most important books in literary history brings together 36 of the playwright’s dramas
Thursday, 9 January, 2020

British Museum warns of climate risk to Arctic treasures
Rapidly rising temperatures cause exposure of fragile pieces locked in frozen ground
Tuesday, 3 December, 2019

All for one: Shortlisted artists share Turner Prize
Judges grant nominees' request for ‘commonality, multiplicity and solidarity’
Monday, 18 November, 2019

Titian’s greatest works to be reunited in London
Move made possible by Wallace Collection’s decision to lend works for the first time
Monday, 18 November, 2019

ReviewBooks
Who Owns History? by Geoffrey Robertson
A polemic against the British Museum plagued by inaccuracies
Thursday, 14 November, 2019

Rembrandt art heist foiled by police
Intruder chased down by officers after removing treasures from Dulwich Picture Gallery
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Saturday, 9 November, 2019

Watches & Jewellery
Bishopsland: where creativity and communal life combine
Residential course run by octogenarian couple is a Shangri-La for aspiring silversmiths
Friday, 8 November, 2019

FT SeriesLondon Culture Guide 2019 — winter edition
Berlin to Finchleystrasse: return of the Cosmo café
For years it was a home from home for refugees from Nazi Germany, now a new show brings it back to life
Tuesday, 5 November, 2019

National Portrait Gallery to shut for 3 years for redevelopment
Other UK institutions to receive 300 of its portraits each year during £35.5m revamp
Friday, 1 November, 2019

Tutankhamun treasures go on show in the UK
Saatchi gallery hosts exhibition of Egypt’s boy king that starts on Saturday
Monday, 28 October, 2019

Warhol’s portraits of NY drag queens to go on show at Tate Modern
The ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ paintings were discovered in a private collection
Monday, 7 October, 2019

Design Museum names Tim Marlow as chief executive
Curator and broadcaster takes up newly created dual role at Kensington institution
Thursday, 3 October, 2019

Banksy’s chimps in the Commons sells for record £8.5m
‘Devolved Parliament’ has been revised slightly from the street artist’s 2009 original
Monday, 30 September, 2019

Tate Modern hosts reimagining of Victoria Memorial
Sculpture in the Turbine Hall acts a ‘counter-memorial’ to the history of slavery
Friday, 20 September, 2019

National Gallery paints vision of technology in art
NGX project aims to explore potential of new technologies for museums
Friday, 13 September, 2019

Banksy’s ‘Devolved Parliament’ to be auctioned
Caustic comment on British politics expected to fetch £1.5m-£2m
Tuesday, 3 September, 2019

Marina Abramovic brings naked truths to the Royal Academy
Imponderabilia, featuring two nude figures at entrance, shows artists are ‘living doors’
Thursday, 15 August, 2019

David Bowie
‘Bowie Bandstand’ awarded a Grade II listing
Edwardian relic was the centrepiece of a music festival organised by David Bowie in 1969
Thursday, 8 August, 2019

British Museum adds anti-Brexit ‘banknotes’ to collection
Curator says Johnson and Rees-Mogg ‘skit money’ illustrates character of society
Friday, 2 August, 2019

Brexit
Edinburgh Festival artists refuse pay in sterling
Brexit uncertainty forces event organisers to use euros and dollars
Friday, 2 August, 2019

Science Museum defends oil and gas sponsorship
Group director says demonising fossil-fuel companies is ‘seriously unproductive’
Wednesday, 31 July, 2019

British Museum challenged over sponsorship deal with BP
Chair of trustees cites ‘tight’ financial pressure after public funding cuts