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Factory International by OMA is a Manchester cultural centre designed to break barriers between audience and performer

Kehinde Wiley wonders aloud if he’ll ever reach a career moment of such import and gravity as his famous 2018 portrait of Barack Obama, which has drawn crowds around the United States

Other lives: Sculptor and painter who co-founded Poussin Gallery and the website abstract critical

Neil Pollard was a healthy man who loved to exercise but lost his life within moments after a cardiac arrest.

"The support and condolences we have had means a lot - the response shows the scale of the man Leroy Cooper was"

Anna Wheelhouse, who painted the art, said she hopes it makes people smile

The model may use £1,300 saddle-stitched leather gardening tools, but there’s something pleasing when edgy idols take up hobbies we mere mortals already enjoy

Tensile and hard-won, the artist’s singular work is occasionally lost in the scrum of a show keen to situate her in a social, sexual and painterly whirl

The Pompidou Centre in Paris, one of the world's top modern art museums, will shut down for refurbishment for five years from 2025, France's culture minister said earlier this week – one year longer than previously announced. The renovation work will include the removal of asbestos from the building and…

The stone was also used on some of Liverpool's most notable buildings