The Latest Breaking News on Art

London arts centre to amplify global majority voices and ‘urgent questions’

Founded by Lina Lazaar, Ibraaz will host challenging conversations amid growing concerns over freedom of expression in the arts

The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2025

Women born in East Germany have lived between two worlds. That’s why we’re shaking up art and politics

The stories of curator Kathleen Reinhardt and provenance expert Lynn Rother show how exclusion can be turned to powerful insight, says writer Carolin Würfel

The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2025

Aristocrat’s ‘evil’ partner should have been jailed for life for raping me, his first victim says

The victim has spoken out after she was attacked in her home by Mark Gordon, who was armed with a knife and hedge-clippers

The Independent UK · Jul 14, 2025

'How my life shaped my sculpting': meet Simon Lee, the artist who turns experience into art

The sculptor charts his journey and how it reflects in his work

Creative Bloq · Jul 14, 2025

How the elephant in the courtroom crashed into Constance Marten’s trial

The scene was set before the case began, as Mark Gordon’s defence team raised the thorny subject of the ‘white aristocrat and black rapist’.

Evening Standard · Jul 14, 2025

Man accused of suitcase murders claims he was ‘raped every day’

Yostin Andres Mosquera, 35, is on trial for the murders of Albert Alfonso, 62, and Paul Longworth, 71, on July 8 last year.

The Independent UK · Jul 14, 2025

How are these 3D characters so ugly yet so beautiful?

There's a reason we love ugly design.

Creative Bloq · Jul 14, 2025

Please do touch: sculpture exhibition curated by blind people to feature tactile works

Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, hosting Beyond the Visual, hopes to challenge ‘ocularcentric bias’ in galleries

The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2025

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire review – the legacy of a dissident and inspirational surrealist author

Brief film looks at the intense flowering of essays by the Caribbean feminist and anti-imperialist who saw surrealism as a revolutionary mode

The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2025

How I use comic book techniques to create striking black-and-white digital paintings

Karl Simon visits Highgate Cemetery to show us the importance of contrast in black-and-white painting on a tablet.

Creative Bloq · Jul 14, 2025