The Latest Breaking News on Art

Star Wars battle droid disappears from Colston statue plinth after just a few hours

Artist Simon Francis Thomas originally said the droid would occupy the plinth until April 9

Bristol Post · Apr 7, 2023

In AJ Paliev’s Deerfield mural, horse, rider keep ‘marching forward . . . to an unknown place’

“Walking Clock” was done while he was a student at Deerfield High School and can be seen on an AT&T building on Deerfield Road near Waukegan Road.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 7, 2023

Welsh historic treasures face 'ongoing risk' due to £65m maintenance backlog

Wales' national collection comprises five million items housed across seven museums

Wales Online · Apr 7, 2023

Ai Weiwei smashes it, Steve McQueen stuns and Brookside goes ceramic – the week in art

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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 7, 2023

Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers review: a display of ‘redemptive’ works

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…

The Week · Apr 7, 2023

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané saturates Kiasma in scent, light and uncanny geometry

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

Wallpaper · Apr 7, 2023

Late night contemporary arts festival announces ten events across Scottish city

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

The National (Scotland) · Apr 7, 2023

Heartbreak as Side Gallery to close in Newcastle after more than 45 years as a film and photography hub

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

Chronicle Live · Apr 6, 2023

‘Paint’: Give Owen Wilson’s tedious take on Bob Ross the brush-off

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

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 6, 2023

Newcastle’s Side Gallery to close after funding cuts and energy bills rise

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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2023