The Latest Breaking News on Art

The Chinese activist artist demolishes his sculptures, the Turner-winner memorialises Grenfell and the 90s soap opera is immortalised in Yorkshire

It took both ingenuity and courage for African Americans to become artists in the Jim Crow-era Deep South, said Maya Jaggi in the FT. The region’s black inhabitants typically received no education beyond primary level and were limited to low-paid jobs, making materials like oil paint all but unaffordable. Since…

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s survey exhibition ‘A Leaf Shapes the Eye’ turns the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Finland into an immersive multisensory environment, and confronts pertinent issues about our place on earth

A CONTEMPORARY art festival has announced ten major commissions for its first iteration outside London – in Dundee.

In a shock move, Side Gallery on Newcastle Quayside will shut its doors this weekend due to funding cuts and the cost of living crisis - but it has launched a fund-raiser with fingers crossed for better times to come

Seeing his narcissistic artist interact with thinly drawn characters can be like watching Alizarin Crimson dry.

Photography space that inspired Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall launches fundraising campaign with aim of reopening in 2024

Michael Armitage’s work will hang alongside high-profile figures in new gallery when NPG reopens in June

File from India Office archive details how priceless items were extracted from colony as trophies of conquest

Exhibitions across Europe and beyond honouring Pablo Picasso on the 50th anniversary of his death have triggered fresh debate about the Spanish artist’s treatment of women. 

‘I always pay attention to all the refugee situations, not because I’m a refugee, but I’m trying to see where our humanity is going to be... those boats carry our trust in humanity’