The Latest Breaking News on Art

Chris Ofili painting Blossom expected to fetch up to £1.5m at auction

Work featuring Turner prize winner’s signature use of elephant dung to be auctioned for first time in October

The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2025

Huge ‘Butchered’ artwork installed on North Sea gas rig by Greenpeace activists

Anish Kapoor work referring to ‘butchering of our environment’ believed to be first fine artwork exhibited from a working gas extraction platform

The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2025

Greenpeace installs Anish Kapoor artwork on Shell platform in North Sea

The piece, titled BUTCHERED, was conceived specially for the protest on the Skiff platform, 45 nautical miles off the Norfolk coast.

The Independent UK · Aug 14, 2025

Peter Smith obituary

Other lives: Ceramicist who produced domestic earthenware using traditional methods

The Guardian - UK · Aug 13, 2025

TV tonight: invaluable VJ Day accounts by surviving veterans

A moving film marks 80 years since the war in east Asia ended. Plus: more coach fun with Rob Brydon on Destination X. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Aug 13, 2025

Auction Of World's Largest Mars Meteorite Sparks Ownership Debate

The recent auction of a Martian meteorite -- for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York -- has sparked questions over its provenance and renewed debate over who gets to claim rocks fallen from the heavens.

International Business Times · Aug 13, 2025

Anna Sorokin claims she’s received hundreds of death threats over bunnies abandoned in New York park

In the aftermath of the kerfuffle, Sorokin said she donated $1,000 to a nonprofit dedicated to rabbit rescues

The Independent UK · Aug 13, 2025

World’s swankiest manhole covers? A thrilling tour of the new embankments concealing London’s £4.6bn super sewer

Built to tackle 18m tonnes of rising excrement, the Tideway project has also generated dramatic new public spaces dotted with giant artworks. Our writer takes the ‘stink tower’ tour of the capital

The Guardian - UK · Aug 12, 2025

Jury considering verdicts in trial of priest accused of sexual assaults

Christopher Brain was leader of evangelical movement the Nine O’Clock Service between 1986 and 1995.

Evening Standard · Aug 12, 2025

Sziget 2025 review – Post Malone is a lively, unserious showman, while Chappell Roan is at the top of her game

4/5 Watching the 30-year-old ping between country rock, pop-rap, and balladic R&B ought to be whiplash-inducing, but there’s a strange unity to his set

The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2025