Arts

Thomas Kong, an artist who made whimsical and cheerful collages skillfully composed of food wrappers, plastic bags and other scrap materials, often from the convenience store he operated in Chicago …

Irish musician Bono isn’t just a rock god, he’s also a deft hand with pencil and paintbrush. The U2 frontman was asked to illustrate the June cover of Atlantic featuring …

Istanbul Modern, which opened in 2004 as Turkey’s “first modern and contemporary art museum”, reopens this week (May 4) after a five-year reconstruction. The 10,500 m² building was designed by …

A giant digital portrait of King Charles III, made up of drawings from 11,000 (and counting) people across Britain, was displayed during the King’s coronation week on Outernet’s four-storey interactive …

The myth is that British monarchs and art don’t mix. The bills accumulated by Charles I, who bought more than 1,500 paintings, contributed to make him lose his head. On …

On March 31, a Hindu religious holiday and during Ramadan, an extremist mob set fire to a Muslim school, the Azizia Madrasa, and its library in the eastern city of …

Invited by the Getty Museum Challenge – which involved using household items to re-enact famous paintings on social media during Covid-19 shutdowns – famed British opera singer Peter Brathwaite began …

“Over the years, I have researched how different cameras open up different possibilities,” writes American photographer Stephen Shore (b. 1947) in his recent memoir, Modern instances. “Sometimes getting a new …

“My secret heart searches for dusty, moldy, forgotten recesses./It haunts, hunts, collects, constantly gathers objects, images, feelings. In his 1993 poem my secret heart, Betye Saar – whose sculptures, using …

British seaweed (1843-1853) by Anna Atkins is considered the first book illustrated using photographic images. The English botanist (1799-1871) made her collection using the cyanotype technique, which she learned about …