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

Becoming Frida Kahlo on BBC Two review: documentary reveals the woman behind the icon

The painter’s pain is there to see on her canvases, and this documentary sensitively reveals the astonishing life that she poured out in paint

Evening Standard

Gilbert-Ash completes biggest refurbishment in National Portrait Gallery's history

The Northern Ireland construction company was the main contractor on the Inspiring People project

Birmingham Post

Pakistan’s ‘Aurat March’ sets up art installation playing catcalls to highlight street sexual harassment

‘I literally had flashbacks’

The Independent UK

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

Column: Making art — and still making the mortgage — at a Hollywood auto body shop

LOS ANGELES — The first thing I noticed about the art piece near the corner of Fountain and Western avenues south of Hollywood was the color.

Los Angeles Times

TV tonight: a lively documentary about the brilliant Frida Kahlo

The first in a three-part series on the celebrated painter. Plus: funny moments from The Graham Norton Show. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Italy trumpets 'creative DNA' at art-design roadshow

An exhibition of Italian art has kicked off its Asian Road Tour with a ten-day stop in Bangkok to promote Italian creativity in industrial design.

Bangkok Post

‘Animal Court’ to be back in session as noted sculptures return to West Side after 16 years

Playground animal figures designed by artist Edgar Miller to be restored and returned to the former Jane Addams Homes.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

Beauty Project challenges ideas of what's beautiful at Tasmania's Ten Day on the Island festival

Artist Elise Romaszko is challenging the concept of what beauty is, through a dance piece where all the costumes and props are made from recycled materials.

ABC News

Adelaide Festival approaches record box office thanks to international blockbusters, but Australian artists shine

After a bumpy start, the festival is on track to its biggest year yet thanks to blockbuster international shows — but Australian artists and quieter moments shone through in opening week.

ABC News

Antiques Road Trip pig with hidden feature amazes expert

The brass pig held a hidden surprise in its stomach

Liverpool Echo

Giant Māori octopus to star at Tasmania's Ten Days on the Island art festival

When Lisa Reihana constructed an enormous octopus based on a Māori creation story, she never intended it to leave its home in New Zealand. Now, in its Australian debut, the inflatable sculpture is featuring in Tasmania's Ten Days on the Island festival.

ABC News

Becoming Frida Kahlo: new BBC documentary paints a compelling portrait of the Mexican artist

Nearly 70 years after her death the brilliant Mexican artist Frida Kahlo continues to fascinate for her unique artistic language that interprets her physical and emotional pain, her unconventional relationships with men and women, and her complex marriage to the great Mexican muralist Diego Rivera.

The Conversation

Band sell Banksy’s Grim Reaper piece after 13 years as ‘people need to see it’

Singer Natalie Zalewska said the sale was about preserving the artwork as a ‘piece of history’.

The Independent UK

The world's first Islamic art biennale shines a light on Muslim African artists

The inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale is underway in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Biennales are large and prestigious international art exhibitions held every two years.) This important new event for the Muslim world features numerous African artists. And the biennale’s artistic director is Sumayya Vally, a South African architecture professor and principal…

The Conversation

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Daily Mirror

Talented artist found dead in church yard weeks after becoming homeless

Andrew Nawroski was reportedly found on the grounds of St Mary’s Catholic Church in Newport city centre on Wednesday, March 1 - pals have since paid tribute the 'good friend' and 'fantastic artist'

The Guardian - UK

Desert X review – a severed torso and a sinister detention pen shatter America’s sun-kissed fantasyland

California’s monumental desert sculpture jamboree, which features billboards of photos taken by Tyre Nichols, is questioning water use and the climate crisis. What a shame it requires so much driving

Wales Online

The 700 cool new artefacts you can now see at Swansea Egypt Centre and some are 3,000 years old

A 2,800-year-old coffin and a one-of-its-kind mask of Anubis are among the incredible artefacts now available for the public to view

The Guardian - AU

I’m proud of my career but my mum simply cannot take my work seriously

Training yourself not to want approval is really difficult, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, but sometimes it is the only option you have

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Manchester Evening News

Primary school celebrates International Women's Day with unveiling of mural

An inspiring figure has been honoured with a mural for promoting social justice and women's rights

The Independent UK

Bronze nude figure with hinged phallus sells at auction for £2,200

The Celtic artefact was found by a detectorist at a rally in Haconby, Lincolnshire.

The Independent UK

Sir Grayson Perry ‘honoured’ as largest exhibition of his artwork planned

Grayson Perry: Smash Hits will open from July 22 until November 12 at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.

Daily Mirror

Long-lost letter written by King Charles discovered by couple clearing out home

A young King Charles told The Queen Mother 'I am sorry that you are ill' in a heartfelt letter uncovered by a couple in their loft which went on auction this week

The Independent UK

Could the Getty museum save the £50m Portrait of Omai at 11th hour?

Exclusive: There are just 24 hours to hammer out a deal if the historic painting is to be saved for Britain

The Guardian - UK

The Rembrandt of Aberdeenshire: the extraordinary life of artist James McBey

This artist’s work took him from Scotland to the Arab world, and he saw the price of his work rise enormously – yet today he is largely forgotten. Now, a new exhibition reveals a lifetime of adventure

Bangkok Post

For the dreamers

Illustrations by Somnuek Klangnok or Kru Parn have been featured on tote bags, T-shirts, furniture, Line stickers and in other collaborations.

1 … 336 337 338 339

People

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

Organisations

National Portrait Gallery

Aberdeen City Council

59 stories

National Galleries of Scotland

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.