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How to achieve expressive life drawing an an iPad

Artist Rick Graham shows us how he captures a live figure session using an iPad app that replicates real paint.

Creative Bloq · Jun 20, 2025

Inside a deserted Melbourne shopping mall is a bizarre XR journey into psychosis

The Door in Question uses VR headsets, sound and even smells to create an immersive experience inspired by its creator’s experience with mental illness

The Guardian - AU · Jun 20, 2025

Abstract Erotic review – artworks as beguiling as they are compelling

With works by Alice Adams, Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois, this exhibition revisits a 1966 show of pieces delving into the psychosexual and the human body

The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2025

Portraits so powerful they override reality – Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting review

Saville’s colossal canvases are filled with bloodied mouths, epically thrusting nipples and meaty legs – and her tender Degas-like drawings are truly lovely

The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2025

Teenager arrested for vandalizing San Francisco’s massive Pink Triangle, symbol of LGBT rights

This is the 30th year the Pink Triangle has gone on display

The Independent UK · Jun 18, 2025

‘The surf’s up and the patriarchy is down’: Kirsha Kaechele takes Ladies Lounge to the Gold Coast

With butlers wearing ‘probably not much’ – but no fake Picassos – the Mona performance art installation that won a court challenge is heading north to Bleach* festival

The Guardian - AU · Jun 18, 2025

Tributes paid to charity worker found fatally stabbed in her London home

Annabel Rook, 46, who helped refugees and women fleeing domestic violence, described as ‘profound force for good’

The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2025

Billion-to-one DNA match links man, 92, to 1967 rape and murder, court hears

Ryland Headley is accused of forcing entry into the home of Louisa Dunne, 75, in Bristol in June 1967 before raping and killing her.

Evening Standard · Jun 18, 2025

"I paint in the hope of removing anguish" artist Yuka Sakuma discusses her nihonga-inspired paintings

The illustrator tells us how the beauty of manga and anime influenced her dreamlike work.

Creative Bloq · Jun 18, 2025

That muscular back! Those fleshy breasts! The National Gallery’s ‘fake’ Rubens looks very real to me

How can anyone call Rubens’ sumptuous masterpiece Samson and Delilah a ‘fake’ and ‘a shoddy artefact’? The Flemish master is simply doing a superb job of copying his own favourite outlaw artist

The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2025