Philip Long, senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, writes a memoriam about John Houston.

A sculpture on display at an exhibition in London, curated by artist Tracey Emin, is smashed.

The staging of cultural events at Guernsey's historic landmarks is reinvigorating the sites, according to their curator.

Curators at a Nottinghamshire air museum appeal for help to reveal the history of a special exhibit.

Rock band Motley Crue announce plans to take a touring festival to 41 cities across North America.

Trip-Hop band Massive Attack are named curators of this year's Meltdown festival at London's Southbank Centre.

A man who devoted his life to preserving the history of Newhaven is given an MBE at the town's museum.

A new three-day music festival will feature 120 bands and singers performing in 15 venues across Cardiff.

Quentin Tarantino will curate a retrospective of spaghetti westerns at the Venice Film Festival.

Documenta 12, one of the most important exhibitions of contemporary art, opens in Germany.

David Hockney says a show of "stunning" JMW Turner works he curated gives an insight into the late artist's technique.

Iraqi museum curators travel to Wales with a collection of 200 insects they hope experts will help them identify.

Former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker is named artistic director of this year's Meltdown festival at London's Southbank Centre.

David Hockney is Britain's most eminent living artist. As a retrospective of his portraiture opens, a guide to his work with Hockney himself, his muse Celia Birtwell and the curator.

Tate Britain curator Lizzie Carey-Thomas offers a guide in sound and pictures to the Turner Prize 2006 exhibition.

The curator of the Jewish Museum in London explains how this country became a safe haven from persecution.

Russia's museums face close scrutiny from the Kremlin and some hard truths after the thefts from the Hermitage.

A leading fashion college appoints a Church of England curate as its first chaplain.

Research into the history of a Welsh cultural icon - the traditional hat - is planned ahead of an exhibition.

Rock star David Bowie is to curate a new festival mixing music, art, performance and film in New York next year.