The Latest Breaking News on Art

Rare ‘fancy vivid pink’ diamond sells for £52m in Hong Kong auction

Williamson Pink Star sets world record highest price per carat for a diamond sold at auction

The Guardian - UK · Oct 7, 2022

Artist Turns Iran Fountains Red to Reflect Bloody Crackdown

Fountains in Tehran appeared to be pouring blood Friday after an artist turned their waters red to reflect a deadly crackdown amid weeks of protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini. A wave of unrest has rocked Iran since the 22-year-old Kurdish woman's death was announced on…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 7, 2022

‘Act of cowardice’: Mural of Marge Simpson chopping off hair in solidarity with Iran protests removed

‘We will not be intimidated by this despicable gesture,’ street artist says

The Independent UK · Oct 7, 2022

In Uptown mural, artist Anthony Lewellen combines a love of nature and ‘concrete and light poles’

The six-story mural at 844 W. Montrose Ave. aims to show ‘an overlap between nature and the urban environment . . . these two things that I feel like I’m kind of always wrestling with.’

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 7, 2022

Brian Catling obituary

Performance artist and fantasy writer whose gothic imagination found inspiration in the ‘wrongness of actions’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 7, 2022

Pink diamond breaks auction record in Hong Kong

A pink diamond has been sold for $49.9 million in Hong Kong, setting a world record for the highest price per carat for a diamond sold at auction

The Independent UK · Oct 7, 2022

Billy Connolly covered for shipyard pals skiving off work in Glasgow by 'making welding noises'

The Big Yin has shared a priceless memory of working as an apprentice welder - and the tea boy - while his fellow shipyard workers went off to play illicit games of cards.

Glasgow Live · Oct 7, 2022

Countess sues art dealer after £1m family painting re-sold for millions more

The dispute centres on a version of Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin’s Le Benedicite.

The Independent UK · Oct 7, 2022

50 years of horror: Twisted new exhibition in time for Halloween

Work is featured from artists such as Noel Fielding, Spitting Image, Pam Hogg and many more

Wales Online · Oct 7, 2022

Meet One Of The Last Blacksmiths In Israel

One of about eight blacksmiths in Israel, uses tools and techniques that have been utilized for many centuries. 

Zenger · Oct 7, 2022