The British Council is delighted to announce that Jeremy Deller has been selected to represent Britain at the 55th Venice Biennale.

To give a more in-depth look at some of the works in our collection, the Visual Arts Department talks to artists about the process behind their work...

Andrea Rose introduces the work in the recently opened exhibition 'Out of Britain' in Saudi Arabia.

The V&A, in collaboration with British Council Libya, open their first exhibition in Libya

Garden of Reason opens on 28 April at Ham House as the inaugural exhibition in the new National Trust Contemporary Art Programme.

Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts runs until 7 May 2012 and comprises over 40 exhibitions and projects across the city of Glasow.

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The British Council is delighted to present key works from the Collection within the newly relaunched Google Art Project

The Arts Council, the British Council and the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) reviewed their three collections to explore the potential for efficiencies, cost-savings and enhanced public benefit.

Major exhibition of sculptures and drawings by one of Britian's most respected artists opens in Beijing.

A joint three-year programme between the British Council and Arts Council England which will support individual artists based in England to work internationally is open for applications as of 1 March 2012.

The Third Dimension, an exhibition of 20th Century British Sculpture originally curated by Tim Marlow (White Cube) for the Whitechapel Gallery, is on show in Canterbury until 3rd March.

Major exhibition by one of Britain's most celebrated sculptors opens at the Kremlin Museum in Moscow

Major work from the British Council Collection featured in the Lucian Freud exhibition at NPG London

As Antony Gormley’s new exhibition Still Standing opens at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Paul de Quincey from our Russia office blogs about how this unique intervention in one of the world's most prestigious collections came about.