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Artist Christopher Le Brun Knighted In New Year s Honours List 2020

New Year Honours 2021: The entertainment figures in pictures

BBC News Published image captionLesley Manville, Sally Dynevor and Craig David have been recognised in the New Year Honours Several leading figures from the worlds of entertainment, fashion, art and literature have been recognised in the New Year Honours. Here is a rundown of some of the biggest names, and their new titles: Dame Sheila Hancock Actress Sheila Hancock, who made her name in the West End before becoming a perennial presence on British TV screens, has been made a dame. Commenting on the award, Hancock joked: I ve never felt myself this sort of person. It just doesn t happen to people like me. I feel I may be lowering the tone. I feel slightly miscast, let s put it that way.

2020 in art: a year of toppled statues and spineless virtue-signalling

Cuts and controversies hogged headlines. But, despite the pandemic, there were some glittering gems 12 December 2020 • 2:00pm Artemisia Gentileschi, Jael and Sisera, 1620 (detail) Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest We may hanker to forget 2020, but cultural historians will be studying it for years. And, when they do, they will surely debate which moment was more important: the spring evening when Britain’s museums and galleries went dark ahead of the first national lockdown, or the summer afternoon when protesters toppled a bronze statue of an English slave trader into Bristol’s harbour. Covid has left many institutions in a state of emergency. The brute reality is that it costs the same to open a gallery for 200 visitors as it does for 2,000 – and, with visitor numbers down by four fifths, the deficits are unsustainable. The consequences are already apparent: the loss of hundreds of jobs at Tate, the Royal Academy, the Southbank, and the National Trust. We should als

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