The Latest Breaking News on Art

For the past three weeks the arts have been dominated by a recent decision made by the board of Creative Australia. On February 7 it was announced Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino had been chosen as the artistic team to represent Australia at the Venice Biennale in 2026.

Banksy's ‘Crude Oil (Vettriano)’ has a new owner, whose bank account is now £4.3 million lighter

This alienating exhibition makes the German artist look like a kitsch cabaret version of the Dutch master – the comparison is catastrophic for Kiefer

Scottish painter died this week aged 73, as Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus sold the Banksy interpretation of one of his most famous works at Sotheby’s

First impressions with artist Sarah Finnigan.

Cole was a black South African photographer whose work illuminated the reality of life under apartheid, but Raoul Peck’s excellent documentary unearths a life of exile and homesickness

Five GOP lawmakers who targeted the exhibit also called for the cancellation of the “Palestinian Children and the Politics of Genocide” lecture, which is still scheduled.

A young tattoo artist from Berlin was detained while trying to go from Tijuana, Mexico, to San Diego despite having a valid visa.

“In any civilised community the arts … serious or comic, light or demanding, must occupy a central place. Their enjoyment should not be regarded as something remote from everyday life.” This was a central statement in the white paper (a statement of policy intent) issued 60 years ago by Jennie…