On the eve of the re-opening of museums around the UK, from nationals Tate and the V&A to Turner Contemporary and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the UK's largest arts charity, Art Fund, today launched a campaign for museums, with the announcement of plans for a special...
This exhibition comprises carefully selected works that reflect—with both humour and seriousness---our collective human experience during the global pandemic and lockdown. The exhibition touches on both the physical and psychological impact of isolation; it bears...
London was never invaded, but London has been at war. The look of London during the Blitz and after is captured in this marvel of a picture book, Wartime London in Paintings by Suzanne Bardgett, which reminds us of the superb collections of Modern British art held at...
A new public art project, Breath is Invisible (7 July – 9 October 2020), will be launched by the MP David Lammy in Notting Hill on Tuesday 7 July with an installation of works by Khadija Saye, the young Gambian-British artist who tragically lost her life in the...
The ten artists selected to receive one-off £10,000 bursaries in place of this year's Turner Prize has been announced at Tate Britain. Artists Arika, Liz Johnson Artur, Oreet Ashery, Shawanda Corbett, Jamie Crewe, Sean Edwards, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Ima-Abasi Okon,...
The Cure Parkinson's Trust, in association with Bonhams and Artwise, has announced the complete list of participating artists for Cure3 2020. This is the 3rd edition of the acclaimed selling exhibition, devised to raise awareness and funds for curative Parkinson's...
The BLM protests in recent weeks have shown us how relevant issues of race still are. It's shocking to see that racial discrimination still exists in this day and age. It is our role as cultural influencers to give our attention and support to the fight against...
Here's a handsome new volume, well-illustrated, but more social history than art book, which tells of the emergence of London as an international art scene, during the years that followed World War II. Its subtitle is Art and Culture in the 1960s. Its weakness, if it...
The coronavirus has been responsible for a major crisis in the art world. Museums and galleries have slammed their doors shut. Increasingly the only way to look at art, in the present situation, is to look at it on a computer screen - or, at a pinch, on the screen of...