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Tate & Lyle agrees £2.7bn US takeover in latest blow to London market

The deal comes after a recent spate of swoops for UK companies by foreign firms.

Evening Standard · Jun 8

Tate & Lyle agrees £2.7bn takeover by US rival

Illinois-based Ingredion Incorporated will pay up to 615p per share for London-listed Tate & Lyle.

Evening Standard · Jun 8

Ingredion buys Tate & Lyle in £2.7 billion takeover deal

Illinois-based Ingredion Incorporated will pay up to 615p per share for the London-listed company

The Independent UK · Jun 8

Most famous image of JMW Turner not a self-portrait, says expert

Painting that inspired depiction on £20 note more likely the work of John Opie, says Romantic artist’s biographer

The Guardian - UK · May 14

The car park that changed British art: Bold Tendencies at 20

Two decades after it opened in a multi-storey in Peckham in London, the space has redrawn the map for how to present art – with rooftop cocktails and the pink staircase that launched a thousand selfies

The Guardian - UK · May 12

Tracey Emin Chose This Farrow & Ball Paint for the Backdrop to Her Tate Modern Retrospective — It's a Color That Makes You Feel Calm, Attentive, and Present

Inspired by the unusual pigmentation of mud and cockles mixing on a Norfolk beach, the color lends a night sky-like atmosphere to the landmark show of one of Britain's all-time greatest artists

Livingetc · May 3

V&A Museum deleted maps and images deemed sensitive by Chinese censors

Chinese printers objected to a map of China and an image of Lenin which fell foul of Beijing’s censorship body

Evening Standard · Apr 15

V&A censored catalogues after demands by Chinese printer

Exclusive: Victoria and Albert Museum has deleted maps and images deemed sensitive by Beijing censors from exhibition publications

The Guardian - UK · Apr 14

The National Gallery’s £750m new wing has reignited London’s art turf war

“When should painters become old masters?” Former National Gallery director Philip Hendy put that question to then Tate director John Rothenstein almost 70 years ago. Founded in 1897 as the National Gallery’s annexe for British Art, by the 1950s Tate had developed into a gallery of modern as well as…

The Conversation · Apr 14

OPINION - The National Gallery’s new wing is bland, but the modern art going in it is the problem

For the National Gallery to expand its remit to include 21st-century art (hello, Tracey Emin) is something else

Evening Standard · Apr 11