The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled an exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of male homosexuality in England and Wales. It uses portraits of prominent gay figures to illustrate how attitudes have changed. Singer Will Young...
This is a big year for the British artist Helen Marten. Not only has she been nominated for the 2016 Turner Prize but she has been awarded the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. The winner was announced at an award ceremony at The Hepworth Wakefield this...
Claudio Rasano has won the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016. His portrait of a Johannesburg schoolboy, on exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, has taken the prestigious £15,000 award. The Swiss-Italian photographer was at an awards ceremony last...
New work by the Turner Prize-nominated British action sculptor, painter and ceramicist, Bruce McLean has been announced by London's Bernard Jacobson Gallery. The show will be featuring works produced over the past year, including 6 ‘Shade’ Paintings; a series of...
A public appeal to acquire Sir Thomas Lawrence's unfinished final portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, has been announced today, Thursday 3 November 2016. The portrait has been offered to the National Portrait Gallery for £1.3 million. The appeal was...
Somerset House Studios is a new experimental workspace within Somerset House connecting around 300 artists, makers, and thinkers with audiences. Located inside the former Inland Revenue offices, the Studios are a platform for the development of new creative projects...
Dia Al Azzawi is in every way shape or form a painter’s painter. His application and layering of colour can be rich and sublime like Matisse or Leger but also his use of monochromatic elements resembling newspaper clippings are a most powerful vehicle for getting...
If you’re the sort of person that thinks money alone makes the art-world go around then leave this page immediately. However, if you are driven by curiosity and aesthetics and believe in the need for an alternative to Art Review’s Power 100 list which celebrates a...
The final A-level art history course in England has been axed as part of the legacy of Michael Gove’s stint as Education Minister. His 'cull of 'soft subjects’ has ended with the exam board AQA to hold final A-levels in 2018, as art historians warn decision...