🟦 i've interviewed the brilliant ✨ Chila Kumari Singh Burman!✨ yes, the next interview to run in my newsletter is with the fantastic internationally-acclaimed artist, who is known for her striking neon sculptures

Detectives are appealing for information and witnesses after a burglary at the @rammuseum.bsky.social in Exeter. Anyone who has information, or footage that may assist is asked to contact police on 101 or via our website quoting log 64 of 10/09/25. More: news.exeter.gov.uk/break-in-at-...

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | the National Gallery announces a MAJOR expansion and two of the largest single donations ever received by a museum

🟦 NEWS | Barbara Hepworth’s lifelong fascination with colour — a little-known aspect of her work — will be the subject of a new exhibition in London next year

🟦 art is ruined by art-speak “liminal”? “ontological”? why can’t the art world discover the art of speaking clearly? that’s the question asked by today's guest-writer in my newsletter @londonartcritic.bsky.social Tabish Khan dives into why the language in galleries leaves him scratching his head

Today's Reliable Sources lead: Trump's "chilling effects" are coming for museums, and historians are responding by defending what they do >>> cnn.it/4oKVrcu

🟦 NEWS 🚨| Banksy’s Croydon rat artwork has been acquired by the London Transport Museum — and it's gone on display today it's not been seen in over 5 years since its removal from its original location featuring a mouse with a clock, it was stencilled on a TfL-owned control box in Croydon in 2019

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | The future of The National Gallery will be decided by an assembly of British citizens chosen by lottery in a landmark new governance project. For the first time, a national Citizens’ Assembly — from all four nations — will be established by a UK museum or gallery.

🟦 A bitter public row has erupted between the Freud Museum and its Friends group in London. It’s seen the museum forced to report itself to the UK’s charity regulator only to be told it has no case to answer. 📩 It’s the most-clicked story in my weekly museum and art news Substack newsletter

🟦 NEWS 🚨 | Tate Modern announces it will stay open until 9pm every Friday and Saturday it cites the success of their monthly curated Tate Lates events as reason for change BUT the galley used to stay open until 10pm those same nights pre covid! so actually not new at all — and shorter hours 🤷🏼‍♂️

🟦 NEWS 🚨 | the first Bridget Riley display at Tate Britain in over 20 years opens today it's led by a major newly-announced donation by Riley to the nation — painting Concerto I 2024

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | the 2026 Turner Prize will be hosted in Middlesbrough the exhibition will be staged in MIMA — Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

🟦 the Mauritshuis museum is to host a ‘Grand Tour’ exhibition with masterpieces from Britain's stately homes — including exquisite Venetian cityscapes by Canaletto @mauritshuis.bsky.social 🇳🇱

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | the biggest Renoir show in Britain in 20 years has just been announced by the National Gallery Renoir and Love will open in Oct 2026 and will feature over 50 major works

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | President Macron jokes in his speech to the UK parliament "it took more years to deliver the project" to loan the Bayeaux Tapestry to the British Museum than "all the Brexit texts"

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | it's CONFIRMED the Bayeux Tapestry will go on loan to the British Museum from September 2026 to June 2027 — the first time in 900 years it will be back in England

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | the Bayeux Tapestry WILL return to England for first time in 900 years it will go on an exceptional loan to the British Museum the news will be announced tomorrow at the museum as part of Emmanuel Macron's state visit to the UK 🇫🇷 🇬🇧

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | long-serving BBC arts broadcaster Alan Yentob has died aged 78

Tim Shipman in the Sunday Times reports that No.10 wants to abolish DCMS. There’s lots wrong with the dept, but taking Culture (the arts, heritage) out of Cabinet would be a mistake. 1/🧵

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 the shortlist for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025 is: Perth Museum 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Beamish, The Living Museum of the North 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Compton Verney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Golden Thread Gallery 🤍 NI ❤️ Chapter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

🟦 in the ups and down of building a career in museums and galleries, this wisdom has always given me much strength 🤣🤣

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | Tate Modern is to host a major retrospective of Dame Tracey Emin opening in 2026 and spanning her 40-year career, it will show defining works alongside material never exhibited before

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | Claudia Winkleman has been appointed as a Trustee of the British Museum

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | visitor figures to the British Museum have hit a ten-year high it welcomed 6.5 million visitors in 2024, its highest number since 2015

🟦 NEWS 🚨 | visitor numbers to Tate Modern and Tate Britain last year continued to significantly lag behind pre-pandemic levels in 2024, Tate Modern was 25% below 2019 visitor figures, while Tate Britain was 32% down the gap was revealed by the @theartnewspaper.bsky.social

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | 3,203,451 visits were made to the National Gallery in London during 2024 that is a modest increase of just 3% despite the high profile bicentenary and Van Gogh exhibitions but 724,812 visits were made to the National Treasures tour (May – Sept) of 12 paintings across Britain

🟦 NEWS 🚨 | Tate cuts its workforce by 7% to try to shore up finances

🟦 NEWS 🚨 | there's now one fewer Canaletto paintings in the world! the Wallace Collection have now reattributed one of their 28 Canaletto's in their collection to the artist's nephew, Bernardo Bellotto

🟦 i've hit 5,000! mind. blown! my free museums and art newsletter — maxwell museums — has sailed over FIVE THOUSAND readers 😮 thank you to every single reader who reads every single week!

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | the River & Rowing Museum in Henley is to cease operating after heavy financial losses www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/home/19...

🟦 nice to see an arts story in top 3 most-read on the Guardian not nice for the National Gallery obvs

🟨 BIG NEWS. Tim Burton is a RECORD BREAKER 🏆 we've just announced that The World of Tim Burton exhibition has become the @designmuseum.bsky.social's most-popular show in our 35-year history over 171,000 people have so far experienced the exhibition

🟦 "this should be as much a project about appreciating an intensely used, debated, visited and loved slice of the city as it is about displaying the treasures of the world." fascinating assessment by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social in the FT on Lina Ghotmeh's appointment to transform the British Museum

🟦 NEWS 🚨 | the government have announced £270m in new funding for museums and cultural organisations this includes 29 local museums sharing £24.8m for vital improvements to resilience here's the full list — with London Museum of Water and Steam getting the most: £2.6m ⤵️

🟦 happy 40th birthday Eastenders! the iconic British soap was first broadcast on this day in 1985 📺 to celebrate, the East-End-based @museumofthehome.bsky.social has unveiled a display of costumes and props from the show, including the outfits for the (doomed) wedding of Syed and Amira in 2010

🟦 my newsletter is SIX subscribers away from hitting 5,000! if you love museums, galleries, heritage and art then this is one for you! don't just take my word for it — the Observer newspaper named it one of the world's best Substacks 💪 📝 👇

🟦 NEWS 🚨 | the UK government recommits tens of millions of pounds to museum capital projects it previously was “minded to withdraw funding” from it ends huge uncertainty from venues such as the @railwaymuseum.bsky.social and @vadundee.bsky.social museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | 2023 saw more archaeological finds made by the public than any other year, the British Museum has announced the museum also revealed the discovery of the first silver coin ever minted by a Viking ruler in Britain. the coin has been officially declared treasure

After almost forty years of inspiring visitors with real rockets, satellites and landers, our Exploring Space gallery will close partially after 22 April and fully close on 2 June 2025. Don’t miss your chance to see this out-of-this-world gallery. Book your free tickets: bit.ly/3EvjA49

🟦 NEWS 🚨 | Scotland's Perth Museum is to host a major exhibition exploring the origins, myths and legacy of Shakespeare’s Macbeth highlights will include a rare 11th century sword from the time of the real King Macbeth, which has never been displayed before

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨| the Louvre is to receive a major overhaul, with a "grand new entrance" and a dedicated room for the Mona Lisa, President Macron has announced visitors from outside the European Union will also pay a higher entry fee www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | thieves have used explosives to carry out an overnight raid on the Drents Museum in the Netherlands, stealing ancient gold treasures from an exhibition nltimes.nl/2025/01/25/a...

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | an alleged IT attack by a former employee has forced the British Museum to shut its temporary exhibitions this weekend www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Due to Storm Éowyn, the museum will be closed tomorrow (Friday 24 January). We'll reopen at 10.00 on Saturday 25 January. The safety of our staff and visitors is our priority, please be safe out there ❤️

🟦 NEWS 🚨 | Cross-bench peer Baroness Nemat Shafik DBE is the new Chair of the V&A

🟦 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 | Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers was the most visited ticketed exhibition in the National Gallery's history 334,589 people saw the show, eclipsing the 323,827 who saw 2012's Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan

🟦 NEWS 🚨 | the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is proud its visitor numbers have gone down Director Emilie Gordenker has said suppressing the museum’s visitor figures by 18% is one of her proudest achievements in her role

🟦 this is an astonishing article this captivating long-read dives into the British Museum in 2025 — the problems, the controversies, but most importantly, the reality of the remarkable work the museum does if you read one thing today, READ THIS 👀 👇 www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

🟦 NEWS 🚨 | climate protestors deface Charles Darwin’s grave at Westminster Abbey @westminsterabbey.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...