The British Museum opens a major new exhibition presenting a history of Indigenous Australia opening to the public 23 April. This exhibition will be the first in the UK devoted to the history and culture of Indigenous Australians: both Aboriginal peoples and...
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was brought up in Lancashire but through the extraordinary turn of events in her life, she met Surrealist artist, Max Ernst and went on to become one of Mexico's most celebrated artists.Carrington explored her own...
In the second and final part of our featured discussion between Hans Haacke and Jon Bird at the ICA, we conclude that Mr Haacke's work crosses boundaries of Conceptual, Minimal, Pop and site specific Land Art. His latest work unveiled on the Fourth Plinth in...
To tie in with the General Election, the V&A is presenting 'All of This Belongs to You', a free exhibition about the museum as a public space and its role as a public institution in contemporary life. Distributed across both the physical and online spaces of the...
The Sir Eduardo Paolozzi mosaic arches that are incorporated into the top part of the escalators at Tottenham Court Road underground station, may be lost to redevelopment, by the new Crossrail link project. The two important murals make up a key part of the 1980s 'art...
Woman in Gold is a new film starring Helen Mirren based on the restitution of a masterpiece by Gustav Klimt. The American-British drama is directed by Simon Curtis (My Week with Marilyn) and written by Alexi Kaye Campbell. The film also stars Tatiana Maslany, Ryan...
For over a decade, the contemporary British artist Ryan Gander has been passionate about the work and persona of the Hungarian-born Brutalist architect Erno Goldfinger. In fact he has not only written a book on the master (The Boy Who Always Looked Up) but has also...
Katharina Fritsch unveiled her 'Fourth Plinth' commission in London’s Trafalgar Square this morning at 10:45 am. The 4.7m high sculpture titled 'Hahn/Cock' will occupy Trafalgar Square’s empty plinth for 18 months. The sculpture was revealed in the...
Tate Modern presents the UK’s first major exhibition of Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi (b.1930). Bringing together 100 works from across more than five decades of his international career, this retrospective highlights one of the most significant figures in...