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Other lives: Lecturer on art history who travelled far and wide on behalf of the Arts Society

International art project will visit Manchester, where 30 people will be tattooed with one letter of 1948 UN document

A series of steel artworks sitting off the coast of Nacula Island is growing coral in hope of creating more climate-resilient organisms

“I do my best to live in harmony and connection with the natural world,” the Jefferson Park artist says. “And thinking of my ancestors doing the same was a comforting place to be as I designed this piece.”

Former BBC arts editor who is currently artistic director of the Barbican will take over in the new year

Brands love to use the work of late, great artists just as much as late, great artists’ estates like to cash in. But that hasn’t stopped a slew of Succession-size squabbles

When it comes to creative expression, adults could learn from the playfulness, humour and imagination of children, writes Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

A revealing look at centuries of art fakes, an art movement’s obsession with hands and Louise Bourgeois in Blackpool – all in your weekly dispatch

An exhibition of late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury's possessions, titled Freddie Mercury, A World of His Own, is now open at Sotheby’s in London

Grayson Perry is arguably the most famous artist working in Britain today, said BBC Scotland. Since the 1980s, he has gone “from taking pottery evening classes to winning the Turner Prize”, and presenting programmes on Channel 4. He is now held in high esteem by both the art establishment and…

A panorama of sketches embodying artist Chandrasekaran Gurusamy’s interactions with the world