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The first thought that comes to mind when you enter the Balloon Museum for the “Let’s Fly” exhibit is the massive scale of the art

The great Renaissance artist exploded into England on the run from anti-art crusaders – and his spellbinding portraits of 16th-century grandees are going on display at last

The international art world is celebrating the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui in London. On 9 October, a gigantic installation of three new works – Behind the Red Moon – opened at the Turbine Hall at the prestigious Tate Modern, displaying what Anatsui is most famous for: unique, large scale sculptural…

PLANS for a state of the art community space, research hub and art storage facility have been granted permission to go ahead by City of Edinburgh…

Couturiers, spirit-makers and neon-sign merchants are among the 600 artisans opening their ateliers next month to showcase their traditional trades

Was a double chin really highly fashionable once? Is social media ranking your looks? And how did Iran become a nose-job world leader? We go behind the scenes at The Cult of Beauty

Artist Laurence Leenaert's newly opened Riad Rosemary showcases the best of Morocco's next-gen creative scene

From the end of Antiquity (5th century CE) until about 1250, image-makers were more or less anonymous craftspeople. Traditional images from the Byzantine world dominated art in this period. When it came to art, what mattered was the skilful repetition of familiar icons, a model that left little room for…

On April 13, 1944, thousands of people clashed with police on the steps of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Grammy-winning musician and his filmmaker husband are loaning 300 rare prints to the museum

The weight of history hovers over this American postwar figurative artist, with an increasing focus on the experience of Jews