Arts news

• Tate suspends contact with donor over sexual harassment claims

  14-01-2018 18:05
  Art dealer Anthony d’Offay, praised for ‘one of most generous gifts’ ever to UK galleries, denies inappropriate behaviourTate and National Galleries Scotland have suspended contact with one of their biggest donors after he was accused of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour.The 78-year-old art dealer Anthony d’Offay created the Artist Rooms programme when, in 2008, he sold almost his entire art collection to the galleries for the price he had paid originally rath
  
  Read more

• The Guardian view on contemporary art in schools: a joyful idea reborn | Editorial

  14-01-2018 14:42
  In the 1940s, School Prints were a visionary notion to bring affordable, adventurous artworks into classrooms. Reinvented for the 21st century, they still are todayIn 1946, a letter was sent out to a number of British artists. It began: “We are producing a series of auto-lithographs … for use in schools, as a means of giving school children an understanding of contemporary art. By keeping the price as low as possible, we are able to bring this scheme … within reach of all Edu
  
  Read more

• Revolt and Revolutions; Alfredo Jaar: The Garden of Good and Evil – review

  14-01-2018 09:00
  Yorkshire Sculpture Park, near Wakefield
  A survey of late 20th-century artistic activism feels unfocused alongside the Chilean artist’s dark forest of prison cellsThe rousing chorus of The Internationale can rarely have sounded as fragile or halting as it does on a frosty morning in the walled garden of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield. The Scottish artist Susan Philipsz recorded the revolutionaries’ anthem as a sotto voce solo in 1999 almost as a funerary farewell to the
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUKnews on Twitter!