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Paris food
fromwww.theguardian.com
15 hours ago

Martin Parr: Global Warning review the great photographer in all his gluttonous, giddy glory

Martin Parr's exhibition 'Global Warning' showcases his unique perspective on everyday absurdities and reflects a sense of impending doom.
#va-east-museum
fromConde Nast Traveler
2 days ago
London

A First Look at the V&A East Museum-London's Most Exciting New Cultural Addition

V&A East Museum opens in London, expanding the V&A's influential collection and focusing on community engagement.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago
London

The Guardian view on a much-needed boost for the arts: rebuilding England's cultural landscape

The V&A East Museum opens in Stratford, London, revitalizing the cultural landscape amid challenges faced by arts organizations across the UK.
London
fromConde Nast Traveler
2 days ago

A First Look at the V&A East Museum-London's Most Exciting New Cultural Addition

V&A East Museum opens in London, expanding the V&A's influential collection and focusing on community engagement.
London
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

The Guardian view on a much-needed boost for the arts: rebuilding England's cultural landscape

The V&A East Museum opens in Stratford, London, revitalizing the cultural landscape amid challenges faced by arts organizations across the UK.
Photography
fromThe New Yorker
3 days ago

David Armstrong's Probing Gaze

David Armstrong's retrospective at Artists Space showcases over ninety works, emphasizing portraits and desire, revealing his artistic evolution and impact.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future review some of these insights into AI are just mindblowing

Artificial intelligence's impact on relationships and society is explored through personal stories and expert insights in Grayson Perry's documentary.
London food
fromianVisits
4 days ago

First look inside the new V&A East Museum

A new architecturally distinctive V&A building in East London features a sculptural design inspired by fashion and Japanese concepts of space.
Music production
fromItsnicethat
6 days ago

The Pet Shop Boys book Volume is a visual feast, exploring every inch of the icons' creative legacy

Pet Shop Boys celebrate 40 years of influence with a comprehensive visual record, showcasing their artistic evolution and impact on pop culture.
#art-fairs
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 week ago

carsten holler on the 'most powerful architect' and collective experience at MIT museum

The dream is the confusion machine I didn't have to build, a space where perception slips beyond authorship. Within Communal Dreams, influence operates as a subtle signal rather than a directive force.
Berlin
#va-east
London food
fromTime Out London
4 days ago

First look: Time Out's review of London's spectacular new V&A East Museum

V&A East opens as a creative hub showcasing diverse art and design, emphasizing accessibility and community engagement.
London food
fromTime Out London
4 days ago

First look: Time Out's review of London's spectacular new V&A East Museum

V&A East opens as a creative hub showcasing diverse art and design, emphasizing accessibility and community engagement.
London music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

We want people on the edge of their seats': Royal Opera boss Oliver Mears on the new season and the controversies of the last

Oliver Mears outlines the upcoming season at Covent Garden, featuring new productions and the challenges of financial commitments in opera.
Philosophy
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

This is 160-million-year-old Jurassic clay': inside Es Devlin's bid to reshape AI ethics through pottery

Es Devlin's conference blends art, AI, and spirituality, fostering dialogue among diverse participants in a creative, hands-on environment.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
3 days ago

Tom Prochaska: Through the Open Door * Oregon ArtsWatch

Tom Prochaska distinguished himself in many mediums: He was a masterful printmaker, an intuitive painter, a builder of papier-mâché figures, a creator of fused glass panels, and graphite-on-paper drawings.
Arts
fromTime Out London
3 days ago

This free London art festival is massively expanding this summer - it'll take over a whole borough

Hackney Art Week will take place from June 4 to 14, featuring 60 artists and creatives across 50 venues in the borough, including Dalston and Clapton.
London
fromArtnet News
2 days ago

What Not to Miss at the San Francisco Art Fair

"I love the range in this booth, from large-scale ceramic totems to more intimate neon paintings. I'm always impressed by the artists Freeburg represents and the clarity of her program's mission."
Arts
London
fromTime Out London
5 days ago

These spectacular London cultural institutions are receiving millions in government funding

London's major arts venues will receive £130 million from the Arts Everywhere Fund to enhance access and improve cultural infrastructure.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Museums have a duty to inspire the creatives of the future. At V&A East, I've made that my mission | Gus Casely-Hayford

A stained-glass window by Tania Bruguera embodies community aspirations and reflects the evolving role of museums in engaging with local populations.
London
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

V&A East collection review a dazzling wealth of inspiration to fire up the geniuses of the future

A new sculpture in east London reflects youth culture but risks oversimplifying individual differences, while the museum's collection celebrates cultural diversity.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 days ago

A View From the Easel With Celia Paul

Celia Paul's studio is a personal, quiet space that enhances her artistic process and allows for introspection.
fromOpen Culture
1 week ago

Explore 1,000,000 Digitized Artworks from Across the UK: Paintings, Sculptures, Street Art & More

Art UK has taken it as its mission to digitally unite one million artworks from 3,500 institutions. This free-to-all portal connects everyone with the UK's public art collections.
London
Arts
fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

The Marsden Hartley Legacy Project Launches Online

The first comprehensive catalogue of Marsden Hartley's artworks is now available online.
London
fromTime Out London
1 week ago

London is getting a mind-boggling new illusion museum

The Museum of Illusions is opening a second UK location in London this May, featuring unique exhibits like a 'Ghost Room' and gravity-defying illusions.
fromLondon On The Inside
1 month ago

Alexander McQueen's Sarabande Foundation Has Opened a Cafe in Tottenham

Established by Lee Alexander McQueen in 2006, Sarabande is a foundation that supports creatives with scholarships, subsidised studio programmes, mentoring and events. Sarabande's Tottenham location features 15 studios and an exhibition space across two Grade II-listed townhouses, and now it's added a cafe.
London politics
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
4 days ago

Artist interview: Sarah Rosalena

I see myself first and foremost as a weaver working at the intersection of craft and technology. As an Angeleno, I grew up learning how to weave in the Wixárika tradition of my matriarchal bloodline by watching my mother and my grandmother.
Arts
fromArtnet News
5 days ago

7 New Art Books to Step Into Spring | Artnet News

Casa Kahlo offers an unprecedented look into the famed Mexican painter's family home, Casa Roja, which stands just blocks away from Casa Azul in Mexico City. Kahlo would retreat to Casa Roja when Casa Azul got crazy.
Arts
#art
Arts
fromIrish Independent
2 weeks ago

'You have to step in and experience it' - artists on the rise of AI-generated art and the 'essential' gallery visit

Miriam Fitzgerald Juskova's exhibit combines paper quilling with mathematics, showcasing intricate art that engages viewers and emphasizes the value of handmade creations.
#david-hockney
London
fromTime Out London
1 month ago

London's Tate Modern will be transformed by a vast David Hockney exhibition in 2027 to celebrate the artist's 90th birthday

Tate Modern will host an immersive exhibition of David Hockney's opera set designs in 2027, leading to a retrospective at Tate Britain.
Arts
fromTime Out London
1 month ago

A landmark free David Hockney exhibition is opening in London this week

David Hockney's 90-metre digital artwork 'A Year in Normandie' debuts at London's Serpentine Gallery this spring, featuring 220 iPad panels depicting seasonal changes in his French garden.
London
fromTime Out London
1 month ago

London's Tate Modern will be transformed by a vast David Hockney exhibition in 2027 to celebrate the artist's 90th birthday

Tate Modern will host an immersive exhibition of David Hockney's opera set designs in 2027, leading to a retrospective at Tate Britain.
Arts
fromTime Out London
1 month ago

A landmark free David Hockney exhibition is opening in London this week

David Hockney's 90-metre digital artwork 'A Year in Normandie' debuts at London's Serpentine Gallery this spring, featuring 220 iPad panels depicting seasonal changes in his French garden.
fromArtnet News
5 days ago

Painting Has Entered Its Performance Era | Artnet News

Much of Instagram's video content is organized around transformation-the virtual magic of the before-and-after and clips that show cause and effect. A person makes pasta from scratch in 20 seconds via edits that compress time-intensive labor.
Arts
Berlin music
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

walk through the fantastical world of david hockney's immersive opera stage designs

David Hockney has designed complete immersive opera stage environments since the 1970s, transforming stages into architectural artworks where actors perform within his painted worlds of vibrant colors and forced perspective.
fromianVisits
5 days ago

Denim gardens and gauze portraits feature in free London textile exhibition

Ian Berry's Secret Garden, constructed entirely from recycled denim, showcases the innovative use of materials in textile art, emphasizing sustainability and creativity.
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

Historic Architecture Emerges from Stone in Matthew Simmonds Ethereal Sculptures

From unassuming hunks of Carrara marble and limestone, Matthew Simmonds carves realistic, miniature gothic cathedral arches, stairwells, and colonnades. Often based on architectural details of real places, such as cities around Tuscany and Germany's Bamberg Cathedral, the sculptures portray intimate details of corners, vaulted ceilings, arcades, and stairwells that can sometimes be peeked through additional apertures.
Berlin music
Arts
fromTime Out London
1 week ago

Last chance! Three excellent London exhibitions close this weekend

Several major art exhibitions in London are closing on April 12, including those featuring Turner and Constable.
fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Jasper Johns Keeps Looking

Jasper Johns seemed to reject the tortured, in-the-moment 'I' of Abstract Expressionism, ironically commenting on the heroism and spontaneity associated with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning in his early work.
Arts
London
fromTime Out London
1 month ago

The world's biggest gallery for illustrations will open in London in May - and it's just revealed its first exhibitions

The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration opens in May 2024 as the world's largest illustration gallery, featuring debut exhibitions on Blake's theatrical influences, LGBTQ+ comics history, and emerging artist Murugiah.
UK news
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Museum's building plans too flashy, critics say

Proposed British Museum security pavilions and a Mediterranean lawn exhibit face conservation objections for harming Greek Revival symmetry and appearing "too flashy".
Design
fromDesign Milk
1 month ago

Sandscape Lighting by Studio Haran Breathes Water Into Wood

Sandscape Collection transforms coastal ripple patterns into wooden and ceramic lighting and objects that celebrate grain, depth, and customizable ceramic finishes.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The Southbank Centre is striking, polarising and now protected | Letters

Fiona Twycross, the heritage minister, is to be congratulated for finally giving London's Southbank Centre Grade II listing (Campaigners welcome long overdue' listing of brutalist Southbank Centre, 10 February). I remember being shocked when I first saw it in the 1960s, but it has become a remarkable symbol of the zeitgeist. Its grey concrete and its childlike composition together express the fatalism and despair of a nation in economic and political decline.
Renovation
Gadgets
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

An Ark showed me augmented reality's true artistic potential

An Ark uses augmented reality glasses to create an intimate, face-to-face mixed-reality theatre experience that personalizes storytelling through direct eye contact with actors.
Arts
fromColossal
2 weeks ago

Explore Art UK's Digital Database of More Than 6,600 Street Art Murals

Art UK archives over 21,000 public artworks, including street art and murals, to preserve ephemeral experiences and document local history.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 weeks ago

'As an artist I have a duty to reflect the times': photographer Misan Harriman explores protests and solidarity in new London show

Misan Harriman states, 'this exhibition isn't about one cause', highlighting that it reflects a broader social impulse to protest during times of upheaval.
Arts
Arts
fromTime Out London
3 weeks ago

The ten London art exhibitions we're most excited about in spring 2026

Spring 2026 features exciting art exhibitions in London, including major shows at new venues and highlights from historical and contemporary artists.
fromwww.amny.com
3 weeks ago

How Basil Barrington Watson moves classical sculpture forward | amNewYork

Bronze, when shaped by the right hand, holds time in suspension—an argument against decay, against disappearance, against the quiet erasure of the human story.
Arts
London music
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Harry Styles named as curator of 2026 Meltdown Festival

Harry Styles will curate and headline the Meltdown festival at London's Southbank Centre, highlighting emerging British talent across genres and marking the venue's 75th anniversary.
Arts
fromwww.amny.com
3 weeks ago

A fever dream in Chelsea: The Outsider Art Fair | amNewYork

The Outsider Art Fair 2026 showcases art that exists outside traditional narratives, emphasizing raw expression and instinctive creation.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Cecily Brown: I was too shy to talk to all these super cool kids like Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst'

Cecily Brown admires the YBAs but feels more at home as a painter in New York, facing nerves ahead of her museum show in London.
London
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

London Underground's public art celebrated

Transport for London released an updated map featuring 26 permanent artworks across the Underground network, with new commissions added since 2016 to encourage exploration of public art during daily commutes.
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

Peter Halley Returns to Austria with First Solo Show in Two Decades

In many ways working in the tradition of Kazimir Malevich and Josef Albers, his compositions employ a language of squares and rectangles known as "Cells" and "Prisons," connected by bold lines called "Conduits." Together, these geometric and linear arrangements tap into the inherent geometry that structure reality, and conceptually refer to the construction of everyday life, both public and private as well as physical and psychological.
Arts
Arts
fromBerlin Art Link
1 month ago

An Interview with William Joys | Berlin Art Link

Theater exposes hidden power dynamics through the body's presence, with artist William Joys exploring these relations through 'The Actress' character who transgresses social hierarchies and blurs distinctions between subject and object.
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1 month ago

Tate announces major David Hockney, Edvard Munch and Sonia Boyce exhibitions for 2027

Tate announces its 2027 programme featuring major exhibitions including Lynda Benglis and Edvard Munch at Tate Modern, Sonia Boyce retrospective at Tate Britain, and David Hockney celebrations across multiple sites.
Arts
fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Cathrin Hoffmann "Sill" @ Public Gallery, London

Cathrin Hoffmann's exhibition explores psychological fatigue and information overload through monochromatic paintings and sculptures depicting figures in sustained tension, resistance, and existential weariness.
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 month ago

King Charles Portraitist Jonathan Yeo's Paintings Get the A.R. Treatment

British portrait artist Jonathan Yeo collaborates with Snap to animate his paintings using augmented reality technology, debuting his exhibition at SXSW in Austin, Texas.
#contemporary-art
fromArtnet News
2 months ago

How the Mayor Gallery Has Helped Define Contemporary Art for 100 Years

In the story of art history-the art and artists, movements and trends-a select number of galleries have played a defining role in the evolution and trajectory of art itself. Among them, the Mayor Gallery in London is surely one, as it has maintained a position fostering and promoting some of the most significant developments in art for an astounding 100 years.
Arts
Arts
fromTime Out London
2 months ago

One of London's most unmissable art exhibitions in 2026 will open this week

The Courtauld presents Seurat and the Sea, the first UK exhibition solely focused on Georges Seurat's seascapes, running February 13–April 12, 2026.
Arts
fromianVisits
2 months ago

Free outdoor exhibition turns parks, shopping centres and churches into open-air galleries

Thirty large National Gallery reproductions are installed across Croydon in public locations, free to view until 5th July 2026.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

It's about hurling yourself into the unknown': Charmaine Watkiss on turning a UK museum upside down

Charmaine Watkiss connects Caribbean, African and UK botanical knowledge and diaspora histories through portraits and sculpture emphasizing medicinal plants and ancestral herbal traditions.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

We've scratched the surface': mission to digitise UK public art reaches 1m entries

Art UK's million-record digital catalogue reveals the UK's vast, diverse public art collection and has appointed Ben Terrett as its new chair.
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Art Critic Sebastian Smee Laid Off From the Washington Post

The Washington Post has laid off Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee and made sweeping employee cuts across its Arts section in what's been described as a "bloodbath" at the Jeff Bezos-owned paper. All of the paper's staff photographers were also eliminated, raising questions about the future of the paper's visual strategy. Staffers began receiving layoff notices on Wednesday, February 4, after weeks of rumors of a mass downsizing.
Arts
fromHi-Fructose Magazine - The New Contemporary Art Magazine
2 months ago

Pedro Pedro transforms The Everyday into Vibrant Inanimate Portraits - Hi-Fructose Magazine

One of the great things about making art is discovering something that sprang from seemingly nowhere. In retrospect it looks logical but in the moment it's an epiphany and suddenly it's exciting to explore it. My studio is across the street from Creative Woodworking and they have a box where they put scrap wood for anyone who wants it and it's irresistible to me.
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months ago

A brush with... curator James Lingwood

One of Vija Celmins's wonderful Night Sky works. Maybe one of her charcoal drawings of the cosmos, with a comet flaring across the surface. She conjures up such immensity, and such intimacy, with countless tiny points of light shining out of the darkness. Which cultural experience changed the way you see the world? In a word, Paris. After I left school, I spent several weeks working in Paris and discovered the pleasures of looking, on my own, for myself.
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