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Museums and galleries announce festival of events and exhibitions to celebrate influential British artist

JMW Turner has been called ‘one of this country’s greatest artists’.

We sing the praises of Tate Modern for celebrating the artists that are drawn to other worlds

The artist, famed in the UK for her extraordinary fissure in the Turbine Hall, has turned her focus to the climate catastrophe and the plight of migrants, but old concerns about her country remain

Alarm in sector as four in 10 of Britain’s theatres as well as many regional museums containing local and national archives are on the brink of closure

Anselm Kiefer’s homage to Van Gogh, Ithell Colquhoun’s seaside of surrealism and Gilbert & George fill the galleries, while the V&A opens its archives at the illustrious new East Storehouse

Exhibition in Bristol, the city of her birth, celebrates Paule Vézelay whose ascent was stymied by sexism and war

Butt emerged as one of the subtlest of the famous Goldsmiths generation, but he died too soon for his sly, oblique work to fully develop

William S. Burroughs was a gay drug addict. A knot of contradictions, he was also deeply homophobic, sexist, racist and a gun-loving conservative, a passion that would eventually lead to him to be convicted of manslaughter. Needless to say, his life was as wild as his fiction – just watch…

From 9-12 May 2025, Tate Modern, one of London’s most adored art museums, will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a lively weekend of festivities

There’s a sense of excitement around Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet, now open at the Tate Modern, for a number of reasons. First, it’s one of the first major exhibitions to place the current hype surrounding generative artificial intelligence within a historical context. Second, it addresses the…