The Latest Breaking News on Art

Ghanaian painter Tafa: ‘The painting is greater than the artist’

The acclaimed artist made his way from Ghana to being feted by New York’s high society and is now showcasing his varied work in a Chelsea exhibition

The Guardian - US · Feb 16, 2023

Major renovation planned for Athens' archaeological museum

Plans for a major renovation of the National Archaeological Museum in Greece have been announced by the country's Culture Ministry, expanding exhibition space at the Athens site that houses the most important collection of Greek antiquities in the world

The Independent UK · Feb 16, 2023

Gardener Raking It In After Digging Up ancient Greek Coin, Rare Vase

Mark is reaping the rewards after finding a rare Ming-style vase in his mother's attic and an antique Greek coin while weeding

Zenger · Feb 16, 2023

‘Why is she so talented?’: North West shocks fans with art skills in new drawing clip

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s eldest child has impressed fans with her art

The Independent UK · Feb 15, 2023

North Thanet MP says council’s dismantling of Banksy artwork was ‘heavy-handed’

Thanet District Council confirmed it has removed the chest freezer incorporated into the wall painting ‘on the grounds of safety’.

The Independent UK · Feb 15, 2023

Deaf Nottinghamshire artist creates colourful exhibition to raise awareness on 'hidden disability'

'It's hard to explain what I want the future for deaf people to look like. I just want everything to be open and offered to us, for there to be equal opportunities for deaf people to achieve their dreams'

Nottingham Post · Feb 15, 2023

This comedian just won a $550,000 prize. Up next: A boundary-pushing solo show

LOS ANGELES — Part of the world may have moved on from COVID-19, but performance artist Kristina Wong is reliving the worst of the pandemic — specifically the dark days of 2020 through the summer of 2021 — night after night as part of her solo show, "Kristina Wong, Sweatshop…

Los Angeles Times · Feb 15, 2023

Thomas Commeraw: the Black 19th-century potter who historians assumed was white

A fascinating and illuminating new exhibition acts as ‘a cautionary tale to not make assumptions about identity’

The Guardian - US · Feb 15, 2023

Alice Neel review – sexy, wonky portraits of radicals, poets, feminists and naked art critics

She immortalised New York’s bohemia and her own joys and struggles in paintings powerfully alert to body language and psychological vulnerabilities

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2023

‘Mass murder makes money’: Mark Rylance’s campaign for a memorial to Iraq war protester Brian Haw

Haw, who died in 2011, camped on Parliament Square for 10 years, pushing for peace. Now actor Rylance is part of a campaign to honour him with a statue

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2023