The block of Great Jones Street between Bowery and Lafayette in Manhattan now carries a new name: Jean-Michel Basquiat Way. The Bowery has been home to many influential artists since the mid-20th century, with famous figures from the Abstract Expressionist, Pop Art,...
Legacy comes in different forms. It isn't by chance that some are remembered a year, a decade, a century or 1000 years later than others. How can you be remembered? That isn't up to you, but those who are left behind. The Romans and the Greeks had marble busts made of...
The March Art Diary first highlights exhibitions in Essex (Firstsite, Focal Point and Beecroft Galleries) followed by group shows engaging with spirituality and social issues (St John's Waterloo, National, Halcyon and Fitzrovia Galleries, Cambridge, Norfolk and...
The Royal Academy's first exhibition of 2025 will be Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism. This major new exhibition in the Main Galleries will feature over 130 works from the 1910s to the 1970s by ten important Brazilian artists. It will capture the diversity of...
The Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke worked for two years with staff across the British Museum to select objects with which to explore the cultural impact of British Imperialism. Locke, most well-known for his celebratory installation, The Procession, shown in the...
August's diary highlights a range of shows which engage with art as a form of storytelling by revealing hidden histories and telling lost stories. These include Tavares Strachan at Hayward Gallery, Lonnie Holley at Camden Art Centre, Elias Sime at Hastings...
At 86, Nil Yalter is a star of this year’s Venice Biennale, where she is showing ‘Topak Ev’ and has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. She also has a solo show at Ab-Anbar Gallery in London, ‘The Story Behind Each Word Must Be Told’. Much of the...
British-Trinidadian artist Zak Ové will unveil his first glass mosaic artwork in Notting Hill Gate, London. The artwork, called Jumbie Jubilation, is inspired by carnival and masquerade traditions, mythology, and the vibrant atmosphere of the area. It celebrates the...
A proposal to officially move the statue of transatlantic slave trader Edward Colston into the M Shed museum in Bristol as a permanent display is set for approval. The unveiling of the toppled statue of the 17th-century slave trader has reignited controversy...