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Georg Baselitz: Controversial German Neo-Expressionist Painter Dies Aged 88
Georg Baselitz, who has died at the age of 88, was one of those artists whose significance resists easy summary precisely because his work resists...
Jack White Is Now A Visual Artist Should We Care?
For the past two decades, Jack White has been making sculpture and furniture in relative privacy, a parallel practice running alongside one of the...
Marina Abramović: Historic dell’Accademia Exhibition Announced During Venice Biennale 2026
When Marina Abramović first visited the Venice Biennale as a fourteen-year-old girl, travelling by train from Belgrade with her mother, she stepped...
Desmond Morris: Zoologist, Author And Surrealist Painter Dies Aged 98
Desmond Morris, who died on Sunday aged 98, was a rare figure who lived several significant careers in a single lifetime. He was a zoologist of...
Jim Jarmusch, Patti Smith & Brian Eno Feature In Venice Biennale’s The Holy See Pavilion
The Holy See Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale has announced its exhibition, and it is unlike anything the Biennale has staged before. Curated by...
Christine Ruiz-Picasso Co-Founder of Museo Picasso Málaga Dies At 97
Christine Ruiz-Picasso died on 6 April at her home in Provence, France. She was 97. The museum she helped bring into being, the Museo Picasso...
David Armstrong: Portraits Artists Space New York – Paul Carter Robinson
David Armstrong died in Los Angeles in 2014 at the age of sixty, leaving behind a body of work that has taken time to receive the sustained critical...
Art Meets Hip-Hop Royalty Rashid Johnson Shoots Jay-Z
GQ, under new editor Adam Baidawi, has announced its first major global special issue, featuring Jay-Z, who is now styling his name JAŸ-Z in honour...
Agosto Machado: New York Performance, Visual Artist And Activist Dies
The Artist Agosto Machado died on 21 March 2026, following a brief illness. Agosto has never disclosed his age, but he was thought to be around the...
Helen Legg Appointed New Royal Academy of Arts Artistic Director
The Royal Academy has found its new Artistic Director. Helen Legg, currently Director of Tate Liverpool, will take up the role in June 2026,...
King Charles Visits Tate Britain’s Turner and Constable Exhibition
This week, Tate Britain had a visitor who didn’t need to queue. King Charles III came to see Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals on 10...
Zanele Muholi Wins The 2026 Hasselblad Award
Since 1980, the Hasselblad Award list of laureates has included a syllabus for anyone interested in photography. Zanele Muholi, born in Umlazi,...
