When Grayson Perry stood to accept the Turner Prize in 2003, he said, with characteristic irony, that it was high time the award went to “a transvestite potter from Essex”. …
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New tax relief to facilitate access for international galleries to the inaugural edition of Tokyo Gendai
Japan’s first major international art fair, Tokyo Gendai, is pulling out all the stops to ensure the success of its first edition. Last month, the fair announced that it had …
Take a magical and mysterious tour of the surrealist paintings of Remedios Varo in a great exhibition
Artist Remedios Varo (1908-63) was an avid reader and fan of science fiction authors such as Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury. His paintings can also resemble scenes …
When the Young V&A development team asked kids what they thought of museums, the overwhelming response was: “boring.” From July 1, the museum hopes to change that perception by opening …
Artists are getting creative to counter the visual language distorted by image-generating apps that turn stock photos and salvaged social media files into “mean images”.
The legacy of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship has become a flashpoint in political debates ahead of Spain’s snap elections on July 23, with conservative opposition leader Alberto …
David Adjaye creates his first permanent public sculpture at the St Louis Museum
Ghanaian British architect and artist David Adjaye created Asasius III (2023), his very first permanent public sculpture, in front of the Griot Museum of Black History in St Louis, Missouri. …
An exhibition of inflatable works by Yayoi Kusama at Aviva Studios, the centerpiece of the Manchester International Festival (until July 16), is full of delights for those dedicated to the …
Ryan Gander’s coin hunt gives Manchester International Festival a competitive edge
It is amazing how competitive the luminaries of the art world can be in the quest for an art object. THE best of the best culture writers and other leading …
Artist Adebunmi Gbadebo had never made clay before his exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Before being selected to exhibit alongside Simone Leigh and Theaster Gates, Gbadebo primarily focused …