Art

The Light: New Durham museum announces August opening date

Former Durham Light Infantry Museum and Art Gallery transformed after decade-long closure

Digital | Moving paintings, fashion history, whaler’s memories

We take a close look at the cache

The Asian gaze | A Brief History of British South Asian Art, by Alina Khakoo

Postwar British visual art is given a new context in this slim but rewarding book

Bookworm | Our round-up of the latest museum reading

From art connoisseurship, to heritage management and building museum games

DCMS and Art Explora to create UK’s first permanent mobile museum

£1.6m government initiative aims to bring art to communities everywhere

Case study | Creating trails for temporary exhibitions

IWM's trail encourages families to engage with artworks telling the story of the blitz

Gwen John: Strange Beauties – a meditative look at ‘God’s little artist’

Julia Carver visits this stimulating interpretation of the modernist painter’s work at Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd – National Museum Cardiff

New museum of illustration opens in London

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration has a dedicated library and exhibition spaces

From ‘grubby’ mass production to serious artist – Beryl Cook: Pride and Joy

These joyful, insightful works are given the critical attention they deserve at The Box, Plymouth, says Lara Goodband

Sainsbury Centre receives £91.2m donation

Money will be used to revitalise the Norman Foster-designed building at the University of East Anglia, Norwich

Female artists draw in the crowds

Visitor targets exceeded for shows in Plymouth, Margate and Cardiff

Just a number? | The Coming of Age, Wellcome Collection, London

This exploration of what it means to grow old has a strong emotional core, finds Ioan Hazell