Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News on Art

Painting by surrealist painter Leonora Carrington fetches $28m at auction

Late British painter’s Les Distractions de Dagobert, ‘the apotheosis of Carrington’s oeuvre’, was inspired by Hieronymus Bosch

The Guardian - US

Leonora Carrington painting auctioned for £22.5m in record for UK-born female artist

Les Distractions de Dagobert was the surrealist’s ‘definitive masterpiece’, says Sotheby’s expert in New York

The Guardian - UK

I’m getting married but my father isn’t invited. How can I ensure he doesn’t crash the wedding?

You can’t cordon off every weird dynamic on the big day, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. But you can be clear you won’t accept trespasses without consequence

The Guardian - AU

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Artist in Residence: inside the bustling studio of Marvel, Netflix and Disney artist Charles Ratteray

Library meets laboratory in this artist’s studio.

Creative Bloq

‘OnlyFans, drugs and 9/11 taunts’: Dublin to New York portal taken offline over ‘inappropriate behaviour’

The innovative sculptures linked the two cities together but were soon hijacked by people intent on anti-social antics

The Independent UK

How the world could have looked: the most spectacular buildings that were never made

A mega egg in Paris, a hovering hotel in Machu Picchu, an hourglass tower in New York, a pleasure island in Baghdad … we reveal the architectural visions that were just too costly – or too weird

The Guardian - UK

Vicken Parsons review: Tiny works of delicacy and seduction from a hidden gem of an artist

No painting is bigger than a foot, but Parsons’ works of luminous colour call to mind the vivid images of Matisse, Mondrian and Howard Hodgkin

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

‘An incredible phallic landmark!’ The grain silo gallery, a gift from the trillion dollar man

Le Corbusier called grain silos ‘the magnificent first fruits of the new age’. But what can be done with these soaring industrial cathedrals when they’re redundant? A Norwegian tycoon has the answer

The Guardian - UK

Redone, hidden, burnt: seven famous subjects and the portraits they hated

Mining tycoon Gina Rinehart has asked the National Gallery of Australia to remove her portrait, painted by Vincent Namatjira. Others have gone much further

The Guardian - AU

‘Uncomfortable’ and ‘innovative’: King Charles’s first portrait draws mixed reactions online

Opinion divided by the painting’s red backdrop

The Independent UK

King Charles "blood portrait" reactions

Whether you see the gates of hell or a tampon, the latest depiction of Charles is raising eyebrows

Salon

Not all culture was lost during the war

Brief letters: Paintings kept safe | The red king | A heart-stopping euphemism | Uses for olive oil | Useless tools

The Guardian - UK

Jonathan Yeo’s portrait of Charles III review – a formulaic bit of facile flattery

A psychedelic sea of lurid reds and a clunking monarch butterfly cannot save this superficially observed and carelessly executed bland banality

The Guardian - UK

“Incredibly disturbing”: the internet is terrified by King Charles’ new portrait

Why does it look like he’s emerging from a hell portal?

Creative Bloq

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Wallpaper

Photo London 2024: what to see at this year's photography fair

Photo London 2024 returns to Somerset House bringing together over 120 exhibitors worldwide. With so much to see, we have put together a round-up of highlights during the fair and around the city

The Guardian - UK

Artists shouldn’t be political? Here’s a show that challenges Britain’s creeping censorship

Cutting the Tightrope: The Divorce of Politics from Art, at the Arcola in London, tackles freedom of expression – with particular focus on Gaza, writes Brian Logan

Bored Panda

“This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things”: New Yorkers’ Rude Behavior Gets Dublin Portal Shut Down

After the grand debut of the Portals in New York and Dublin, people began flashing their privates and displaying Swastikas during the live 24/7 video feed. The post “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things”: New Yorkers’ Rude Behavior Gets Dublin Portal Shut Down first appeared on Bored Panda.

The Guardian - US

From $120,000 bananas to gold toilets: art provocateur Maurizio Cattelan is back

The Italian artist, who has gained fame by poking fun at the art world, opened his first solo gallery show in over two decades, now with a more serious edge

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

AAP

Mining mogul demands NGA remove her portrait

The National Gallery of Australia has rebuffed demands from mining billionaire Gina Rinehart to remove a portrait of her from an exhibition.

The Guardian - UK

Graffiti-covered door from French revolutionary wars found in Kent

Markings include public executions and a sailing ship chiselled into door in 1790s by bored English soldiers

Wallpaper

Egg Collective pay homage to Eileen Gray at New York Design Week

For New York Design Week 2024, Egg Collective is back with the fourth iteration of its exhibition series, Designing Women, focusing on trailblazing modernist Eileen Gray (on view until 14 June)

Evening Standard

Fragile Beauty at the V&A review: a breathtaking exhibition of photography's greatest hits and hidden gems

It’s a vast show and a deeply rewarding one

Wallpaper

The Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2024 winner is Mexican ceramic artist Andrés Anza

As the winner of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2024 is announced at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo this evening (14 May 2024), Loewe creative director Jonathan Anderson talks to Wallpaper* about the continuing importance of the prize as an ’incubator of individuals’

Wallpaper

The Dalmore and Zaha Hadid Architects’ whisky collaboration up for auction

The Dalmore 49 Year Old Luminary No.2 The Rare, a collaboration with Zaha Hadid Architects is to be auctioned at Sotheby’s

Evening Standard

Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 at Tate Britain review: strikingly powerful

This comprehensive show might be wide-ranging, but there are some real gems here

1 … 167 168 169 170

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

National Gallery of Australia

65 stories

Somerset House

60 stories

The National Gallery of Australia

50 stories

Slade

42 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.