Arts courses are a soft target. When the going gets tough, they are the first area to suffer university funding cuts. That has proven to be the case yet again, with the Government announcing a 50% funding reduction last week. The arts and culture sector contributes...
10,000 NFTs by the Turner Prize winning artist Damien Hirst launches today to correspond to 10,000 unique physical artworks by the artist. The NFTs contain high-resolution images of the front and back of each of the 10,000 artworks. The physical works, which are...
Welcome to the first of a new series of monthly artist interviews by critic Paul Carey-Kent. There’s an aura of mystery to Ena Swansea. Her big, impressive paintings are now on show at Ben Brown Fine Arts (‘green light’ to 30 July), and I wanted to know more. Just how...
Seventy exhibitions and events from over 100 artists. Sounds a lot? Yet, the overall result of Glasgow International is disappointingly thin. Today's restrictions don't help. Covid prevents international artists jetting in and gallery-goers now have to book a ticket...
Why do I feel so much vitriol towards the Sackler family when I have never met them? Could it be that after 450,000 opioid-related deaths, mainly in the US, the family-owned Perdue Pharma Corporation has never accepted responsibility for their part in the opioid...
There are three keys to the work of Arthur Jafa. The first is Black potention, an awareness that for Jafa derives from the act of cutting and pasting in collage. Since childhood, Jafa has cut pictures out of books and magazines, pasting them into new contexts in his...
Duggie Fields, who died yesterday, was one of the new figurative painters that defined Britain in the 1970s and 80s. His work was internationally influential, especially his graphic sensibility. His fashion sense was second to none. He emerged in the early seventies...
Last Sunday, the Times carried not one but two pieces by Waldemar Januszczak, its resident art critic, who is certainly one of the best in that slightly esoteric line of business. One was in the Culture Supp - the place where Sunday Times art reviews usually appear....
The long-awaited opening of British Art Show 9 has been announced by Hayward Gallery Touring. Aberdeen will be the first stop then touring to Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth. The artists presented in the exhibition respond in critical ways to this complex...