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Belgium has a century-old fling with surrealism and is always proud to flaunt it

The actor had previously attempted to visit the exhibition when the gallery was closed.

The city’s art jamboree rivals its theatre and comedy onslaught, the traditional garment gets a playful makeover and a tribute to Sex Pistols artist Jamie Reid

The Wolfson Gallery at Charleston, East Sussex is holding the exhibition of examples of Hockney’s early works.

The 55-year-old Aurukun artist has taken out the First Nations art prize in Darwin, for a playful work that was praised for its ‘remarkable execution’

The architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron met at primary school in Basel back in 1957, said Robert Bevan in the Evening Standard. Since then, they have produced 600-plus buildings all over the world, ranging from luxury apartments to “cultural institutions”: in the UK alone, the cutting-edge projects they…

The New York artist who applied himself to the medium’s reinvention was painting until Saturday and ‘lucky to live a long life doing what he loved’, his daughter said

Smash Hits, the new Grayson Perry retrospective at Edinburgh’s National Galleries, spans the 40-year career of the recently knighted artist. It’s an exhibition packed with scrutiny of the entanglements of self and society, as Perry casts up snippets of the institutional landscapes that formed him: family, England, the art world.

The model of democracy in the 1920s is sometimes called “the melting pot” – the dissolution of different cultures into an American soup. An update for the 2020s might be “open source,” where cultural mixing, sharing and collaborating can build bridges between people rather than create divides.

Pedro Pascal, best known for his roles in “Game of Thrones”, “Narcos” and “The Last of Us”, turned up to a fan’s art show based on him last weekend – only to find it closed. 

Sir Billy Connolly has unveiled four new drawings for sale.