From some of the world’s greatest galleries and museums, to the treasure-filled bookshops of Charing Cross Road, London is a city packed with choice for a city break says Suzanne Harrington.

A 10-metre high sculpture of a man's buttocks is part of an art exhibition that has been shortlisted for the prestigious Turner Prize.

Dublin-born artist Duncan Campbell has won this year’s Turner Prize for his series of films called It For Others.

Irish-born artist Duncan Campbell has won this year’s Turner Prize for his series of films called It For Others and hinted he might follow in the footsteps of another winner – Steve McQueen.

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The latest winner of the Turner Prize – now in its 30th year – will be announced tonight at Tate Britain.

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LAURE PROUVOST’S win of the Turner Prize for 2013 is the latest in a long line of surprises that have helped keep the visual arts award in the news.

THE celebration show now underway at the Lavit Gallery in Cork entitled RHA in the South features paintings and sculptures by invited members from the Royal Hibernian Academy.

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Actor Jude Law accused the British government of “cultural vandalism” at last night’s Turner Prize ceremony, saying the introduction of an English baccalaureate would take “arts, design, and music” out of schools.

Drawings of human excrement having sex have gone on show at Tate Britain — alongside performances by a bearded female artist who lives in a nudist colony and changed her name to Spartacus.

BRITAIN’S most prestigious – and controversial – modern art award was launched yesterday amid protests by photographers and artists.

A WHALE’S skull, a heap of dust made up of the remains of a jet engine and a workman’s naked backside are among the artworks featuring in a display by this year’s shortlisted Turner Prize artists.

A FRANCIS BACON portrait of his friend is expected to fetch £7.5 million (€9.4m) at auction.

MARK WALLINGER, the artist whose work includes dressing up as a bear, has won this year’s Turner Prize for his replica of the one-man anti-war protest in Parliament Square.

An artist who dismantled a shed then put it back together again has won the £25,000 Turner Prize.

Coronation Street was named best TV drama at the South Bank Show Awards today.

Jeremy Deller, the artist behind a film about US President George Bush’s home town, was tonight named the winner of this year’s Turner Prize.

A transvestite potter who decorates vases with images of sex and child abuse has won the Turner Prize.

Disgraced British peer Jeffrey Archer was expected to leave prison today after serving two years and two days of his four-year jail term.

LORD ARCHER will live at his London penthouse and not at the family home in Cambridgeshire when he is released from jail on Monday, sources said today.

Pop queen Madonna’s foul-mouthed outburst on pre-watershed live TV earned a rebuke for Channel 4 today.

Minimalist artist Martin Creed - renowned for exhibiting a lump of Blu-Tack and a screwed up ball of paper - tonight won the British art world’s top award, the Turner Prize.

Pop superstar Madonna was adding her razzmatazz to the UK art world’s premier celebration today as she hands over the Turner Prize.

Pop superstar Madonna will add her razzmatazz to the UK art world’s premier celebration tomorrow as she hands over the Turner Prize.

A homeless pavement artist whose work has been exhibited in the Tate Gallery has been bought a new home by wealthy American fans.