The Guardian view on 30 years of the national lottery: winners and losers
Editorial: From the Angel of the North to the Eden Project, it has transformed the UK’s cultural landscape. But public funding for the arts is still needed
August 2024
Antony Gormley joins fight against ‘destruction’ of historic King’s Cross site
Angel of the North artist is among residents objecting to development plans for Coal Drops Yard in London
April 2024
Art Weekly newsletter
Expressionists turn blue, Gormley gardens and Rauschenberg reaches out – the week in art
Pioneering German modernists, a stately new setting for Britain’s best-known sculptor and Rauschenberg’s utopian cultural exchange
November 2023
The mystery of the garden of memories at the Angel of the North
Folded and unfolded notes, straggles of ribbon, artificial flowers – a professor is searching for the roots of the phenomenon
August 2023
Gimme sculpture: new statues of Jagger and Richards are a dud – but here are eight of Britain’s best
Bronze statues of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, unveiled last week in Dartford, are not a high point
July 2023
The humble button goes from mere fastener to a place on the gallery wall
Leading actors and artists back Labour’s push for more creativity in schools
January 2023
Art for auction in support of Ukrainian academy – in pictures
The Royal Academy of Arts is hosting an auction in support of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine
September 2022
The pub walk
Walk the length of Antony Gormley’s Another Place … to the pub: the Hightown, Merseyside
The iron men dotted along Crosby beach form an ethereal backdrop to this coastal saunter
August 2022
The Antony Gormley ‘phallic’ sculpture row is an attack on modern art – and geometry
Jonathan Jones
Antony Gormley’s ‘phallic’ statue may damage our reputation, say students
June 2022
Brief letters
Why the four-day working week may worsen the climate crisis
Antony Gormley to become German citizen due to ‘tragedy’ of Brexit
April 2022
Antony Gormley: ‘I’m inviting people to explore the conditions of their own living’
His towering figures have made him the UK’s most famous sculptor. Now, in two new works, the artist is reckoning with the very essence of time and space
June 2021
Antony Gormley hopes Crosby statues last 1,000 years after reset
Artist personally oversaw rescue operation for his ‘industrial fossils’ after several toppled into the mud
May 2021
Oxford Rhodes statue should be turned to face wall, says Antony Gormley
Sculptor suggests solution to row over keeping statue of colonialist in place at Oriel College
March 2021
Suffolk town divided over Antony Gormley works placed on beach
Angel of the North views at risk from road plan
February 2021
Pass notes
Sex on the beach? Why Gormley’s metal sculptures are flustering Suffolk residents
Aldeburgh locals are complaining that Quartet (Sleeping) wouldn’t look out of place in Ann Summers. But it’s far from the first artwork to raise eyebrows
January 2021
Great Big Art Exhibition invites locked-down Brits to put creativity on show
People encouraged to make art on themes chosen by famous names and display it in their windows
