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The restoration of this treasure took three years. So why do the shepherds look so gormless? Is the curly-haired one at a school disco – and is the other trying to remember where he parked the donkey?

The poet’s pop-culture tastes are laid bare for shoppers, while Turner’s wondrous colours hit Edinburgh and Manchester is bathed in light

The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) may have to cut up to half its staff if the national institution's funding isn't increased by June of next year, independent senator David Pocock says.

The legendary performer reveals his cultural hits and misses and why his motto “Just say yes” isn’t always advisable

The Victorian painting by Jacques Joseph ‘James’ Tissot was valued at £2.4 million.

Just Stop Oil’s Hannah Hunt and Eden Lazarus found guilty after glueing themselves to Constable’s The Hay Wain

Two climate protesters who inflicted more than £1,000 worth of damage to John Constable’s painting The Hay Wain must compensate the National Gallery.

Hannah Hunt and Eben Lazarus taped posters of a ‘dystopian version’ of the artwork on to John Constable’s painting and glued their hands to the frame.

The National Gallery has felt the pinch of the war in Ukraine. It had planned an exhibition on modern art with the Pushkin Museum in Moscow for next year, but the plans were scrapped soon after Russia’s invasion, leaving the museum rushing to find 15 paintings that could replace the…

The Sainsbury Wing’s co-designer Denise Scott Brown says plans to remodel her award-winning entrance are tragically bad. Here, she explains why

Turner prize winner Elizabeth Price digs into Scottish industrial heritage, the Royal Academy heads back a century and Kettle’s Yard teams up with the Fitzwilliam – all in your weekly dispatch