Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News on Art

The persistence of nature, the movement of water, the rigidity of walls: photographer Zoe Leonard documents the US–Mexico border

For Zoe Leonard, photography is not just about using a camera. Photography is also about a way of thinking, seeing and interacting.

The Conversation

Pursuing art over university made difference to mental health: sneaker artist

Stella Stockbridge, 20, has garnered the attention of global footwear brands such as Nike for her unique artwork.

The Independent UK

Adam Nathaniel Furman: ‘I like the senses to be tickled’

The British artist and designer, whose work spans Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and a Bristol underpass, is redefining public spaces with an outsider’s eye for the monumental and an emphasis on craft and delight

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Auctioning Freddie Mercury's belongings

Some may wonder why Mary Austin is letting Sotheby's sell the late Queen frontman's belongings, but I get it

Salon

Siouxsie review – more Greek than goth goddess

Ten years after her last London gig, the former Banshees frontwoman shows she’s not just a punk survivor, with a wide-ranging, glamour-heavy set

The Guardian - UK

Sugar sculpture of London’s iconic Tower Bridge makes a surprise appearance

The stunning artwork of one of the UK’s most popular landmarks was painstakingly put together using more than 25kg of sugar – which is the equivalent of nearly 100,000 calories

The Independent UK

Grimes accuses Elon Musk of not allowing her to see son as she pleads with mother of his twins

Canadian musician shares two children with Tesla CEO

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Artists want complete control over their public exhibitions. Governments say it’s not that simple

Collaboration between art and government sometimes breeds conflict

The Independent UK

Restoring the reputation of British Museum curators

Letters: A sad episode at the museum has been characterised by ill-informed comment, writes Andrew Oddy, while Elizabeth Lewis says George Osborne should be replaced as chair

The Guardian - UK

With Chinatown mural, artist Ocean Muerto says he’s playing with the idea of ‘dust to dust’

The artist says his message was that “even something negative can regenerate into something positive.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Craft of the candle

Arushi Agrawal's passion project of crafting candles, Seva Home, recently launched limited-edition candles in collaboration with artist Suryakant Lokhande. The teak-wood boxes feature a Maharaja and Maharani portrait, and come in two variants. With every purchase, eye cataract surgeries are conducted for villagers. The range of candles vary in size…

The Hindu

Illinois governor’s mansion haunted by history, hijinks, heirlooms and art — but no ghosts

First lady M.K. Pritzker gave columnist Michael Sneed a tour of the quietly elegant, Illinois artist-infused, dreamily redecorated mansion and exclusive details on the book she’s written about its history and secrets.

Chicago Sun-Times

OPINION - How is Marina Abramovic the first solo woman in the Royal Academy’s main space? I’ll tell you how

Don’t let the great London exhibitions this autumn fool you - things are still grim for women artists

Evening Standard

African identities, surreal genius Ken Dodd and doors, doors, doors – the week in art

The Fitzwilliam museum re-examines its legacy and recycling found objects points toward the planet’s future – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Week

Black Venus: Reclaiming Black Women in Visual Culture review

The representation of the black female body in art is a “complicated” topic, to say the least, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. It is “a fiery stew of big issues” – of sexual, racial and colonial politics – which are all explored in this “riveting” exhibition. “Black Venus:…

The National (Scotland)

Iconic Alasdair Gray painting to go on display in Scottish museum

AN ICONIC painting by artist and author Alasdair Gray is to go on display at a Scottish museum after its acquisition ...

The Conversation

How photography can reveal, overlook and manipulate truth: the fearless work of Australian Iranian artist Hoda Afshar

Through her poetically constructed images, Hoda Afshar illuminates a world overshadowed by history and atrocity. Yet we never see despair: we see defiance, comradeship, reinvention and a search for how photography can activate new ways of thinking.

The Independent UK

Alasdair Gray mural to go on display at gallery where he spent ‘happiest times’

Cowcaddens Streetscape In The Fifties depicts post-war Glasgow.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Tattoo artist astounds clients by singing during appointments

‘What would you do if your tattoo artist did this?’

The Independent UK

Champagne, Elton and million-pound lyrics: Inside the eye-watering Freddie Mercury auction

Fans, millionaires, and millionaire fans descended on Sotheby’s in the hopes of taking home a piece of Freddie Mercury. From fierce bidding wars to Freddie lookalikes, it was a night to remember. Annabel Nugent ventures inside the history-making auction

The Guardian - UK

Dining across the divide: ‘He was much more keen on anecdote than data’

They agree about corporate tax and the NHS, but will they ever see eye to eye on the Tories’ Rwanda plan?

Evening Standard

Standard Art Prize: 19,401 minutes on the phone help student land award

Iman Sidonie-Samuels’ prize-winning work is made from 81 paper phone bills collected from her grandmother’s house in St Lucia

Evening Standard

Brooklyn artist Will St. John: ‘If you go to art school, you’re paying for connections’

Will St. John has adapted a centuries-old style of painting to depict the modern-day stars of New York. Isobel Van Dyke meets him on the eve of his debut London show

The Independent UK

Artist creates portraits with wallpaper as ‘love letter’ to Windrush generation

Artist Yvadney Davies created an art exhibition as a ‘love letter’ to the Windrush generation.

The Independent UK

Freddie Mercury’s green garden door sells for more than £400,000 as auction attracts huge bids

Victorian-style silver snake bangle sells for whopping £698,500

1 … 266 267 268 269

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Art Gallery of New South Wales

39 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.