The Latest Breaking News on Art

Antiquities dealer who exposed thefts at British Museum dies aged 61

Ittai Gradel died of renal cancer days after museum awarded him medal for ‘very significant contribution’

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28

‘Street culture is about revolution’: Brazilian ‘hip-hop’ painter Paulo Nimer Pjota

The artist started with graffiti at 13 in São Paulo. Now, he samples motifs from mythology and his vast, fantastical paintings have taken over the walls of the South London Gallery

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28

Victorian Society publishes list of most endangered buildings in England and Wales

Tees Transporter Bridge and a former working men’s club in Barrow-in-Furness among sites at risk of decay or neglect

The Guardian - UK · Apr 28

‘Tracey Emin said they’re all about death’: Johnnie Shand Kydd on his dog-walk photographs – and capturing the hard-partying YBAs

He shot the YBAs boozing, canoodling – and shaking up the art scene. Now the photographer has found inspiration in some other unruly characters: his lurchers. We join him for walkies in rural Suffolk

The Guardian - UK · Apr 27

Arts funding gap in the north must be closed

Letters: Christine Baranski and Sharon Maher make the case for investment in regions other than London

The Guardian - UK · Apr 26

Inside the world’s largest art heist when over $500M of paintings were stolen from a Boston museum

A former FBI agent is offering the first detailed account of how investigators identified who carried out the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist

The Independent UK · Apr 26

14 colour concepts every artist needs to know

These artistic colour techniques can help you guide the viewer and enhance your storytelling.

Creative Bloq · Apr 26

Tate at a turning point: new director must confront unwieldy ‘beast’ of an art institution

As Maria Balshaw steps down after nine years, her successor at the gallery needs to forge a fresh financial and cultural path

The Guardian - UK · Apr 25

Paint spring foliage using a dry-brush watercolour technique

This step by step guide has you painting a spring scene in no time.

Creative Bloq · Apr 25

Nazi-looted $10 million Stradivarius violin has turned up in France, says expert

Has a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War turned up in France? Pascale Bernheim, an expert on looted musical instruments, believes so.

Radio France Internationale · Apr 25