Art lovers could pick up a bargain when Charles Saatchi sells off part of his multimillion-pound art collection at auction without putting any reserve prices on the work.

The Carlton Hotel was a setting for Alfred Hitchcocks’s 1955 movie 'To Catch a Thief'

The Carlton Hotel was a setting for Alfred Hitchcocks’s 1955 movie 'To Catch a Thief'

The nature of murals and wall sculptures ordinarily meant that the work of art was forever tied to its original location

A photograph on display in a gallery has been branded an ‘abuse of power’

Cultural calendar steams ahead after innumerable delays

The first exhibition exploring the history of British iconoclasm opens in October

A father tries to shield his daughter from blood splattering on them from every corner. Necks snap, heads are severed and women give birth to guns and knives instead of children. Yet even amongst the violence, children play, women pray and men sing songs of hope.

The family foundation of the international shipping magnate Eyal Ofer has donated £10 million to Tate Modern to help fund its development.

L S Lowry turned the working class into a flat-capped mob, always on the move, never getting anywhere

An undiscovered work by LS Lowry has been unearthed by astonished curators hanging Tate Britain's new blockbuster retrospective of the "matchstick men" painter.

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You're putting on a trio of exhibitions at Rome's Maxxi museum, New York's MoMA and the MOCA in Los Angeles this year – that sounds like a lot of work.

Britain’s publically funded museums are to be spared from the worst of the Government’s spending cuts, the Chancellor George Osborne is preparing to announce.