The Latest Breaking News on Art

On the evening of November 20, Sotheby’s auction house sold an artwork by Maurizio Cattelan for an astonishing sum. The piece, entitled Comedian, is not a conventional painting or sculpture. It consists of an ordinary banana, duct-taped to a wall at a jaunty angle. The hammer price? A staggering US$6.2…

Work showing man hanging from window ledge appeared in 2006 on wall of listed Georgian property

The Pogues singer died following a number of health complications, less than a month before what would have been his 66th birthday on Christmas Day

Monumental work which adorned upmarket Sydney restaurant Quay for almost 25 years was billed as the most valuable Australian sculpture offered for auction in the country

Director showcases images of the suffragettes, Kinder Scout trespasses and anti-fascist protests in London

Acclaimed US painter Julie Mehretu is holding her first exhibition in the southern hemisphere at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

At the Art Gallery of New South Wales, spread across four rooms on the lowest floor of the main building, sits Nusra Latif Qureshi’s first major solo exhibition, Birds in Far Pavilions.

The UK-based artist and film-maker reveals how the work that has won her the prestigious award was the result of watching 417 films made in post-revolution Iran, many of which she ‘fell in love with – and felt betrayed by’

The portraitist, known for her paintings of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, is bringing her first major museum survey to San Francisco and then New York City

One of Africa’s most important art shows, the 15th Biennale of Contemporary African Art in Dakar – also known as Dak'Art – is currently on in Senegal. A biennale is a major international exhibition held every two years. The theme for 2024 is The Wake – L’Éveil and this year…

Breyten Breytenbach (1939-2024) was an artist, poet, thinker and outspoken political activist who changed the literary landscape in South Africa. He died on 24 November in Paris, where he had first been exiled in the 1960s.