The Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Awards for Artists is a rare beast in the UK: serious money, no strings, and an attitude that suggests artists deserve oxygen rather than more hoops to jump through. This year’s cohort, announced tonight at a buoyant gathering in central...
Miami power collectors Jorge and Darlene Pérez have donated 36 works by artists from Africa and the African diaspora to Tate — along with a multimillion-dollar endowment to fund curatorial research. It’s a significant gesture, one that strengthens Tate’s increasingly...
A colourful celebration of heritage, resilience, and unity, the Windrush Generation Black History Month exhibition at several locations, including Westfield Stratford City, showcases over 100 artists whose works honour cultural pride, community, and the enduring...
The Dutch Survey of American Photography is the first in Europe. It traces America’s self-documented history with cool detachment, bearing witness to an adolescent country and art forms developing side-by-side. The extent to which American imagery permeates our daily...
Lorraine O'Grady, a pioneering conceptual artist whose bold works challenged the conventions of Contemporary Art while fiercely advocating for the representation of Black women, has died aged 90. Her death was confirmed by the Lorraine O'Grady Trust and her gallery,...
The world's largest Polaroid camera has been removed from mothballs and restored for a collaboration with contemporary artists in Venice. The Polaroid Foundation and Berggruen Arts & Culture are sharing new images of artworks created by nine contemporary artists...
Women artists are taking centre stage in the UK's exhibition scene this summer. Exciting shows include Turner Prize nominees Heather Philippson and Claudette Johnson, international artists Beatriz Milhazes and Sylvia Snowden, and 20th-century trailblazers Louise...
Five years ago, curator and writer Ekow Eshun embarked on a mission to formulate a new narrative from the Black perspective for a 21st-century audience. Historically, the Black figure in Western art has often been portrayed as an accessory to their European...
Sussex, a tranquil and moody countryside of varying beauty, has long attracted artists and thinkers. Turner, Constable, Sickert and Ravilious painted its watery landscapes, chalk downs, genteel seasides and gritty ports: Chichester, Petworth, Brighton, and Newhaven....