The open-air Yorkshire Sculpture Park is named the museum of the year for its "bold artistic vision".

BBC director general Lord Hall sets out proposals to introduce an open market for programme-making at the corporation.

Comic book writer Alan Moore says a council's plans to sell a 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue valued at about £6m "could only be catastrophic".

AC/DC singer Brian Johnson receives an honorary degree from Northumbria University.

The owner of a painting purported to be by Vincent van Gogh admits misrepresenting its true history.

A rare Botticelli drawing - the last believed to remain in private hands - sells for a record £1.3m at a London auction.

An "ingenious" but "complicated" production of Shakespeare's Richard III earns mixed reviews for Sherlock star Martin Freeman.

Artists including Jeremy Deller are creating new works for a lights out to mark 100 years since the outbreak of World War One.