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UK Galleries Mount Virtual Shows on Lockdown Using New Digital Tool

19/05/2020

Art UK's Curations initiative enables 'anyone anywhere with internet access' to create an exhibition using the national image database....

Submissions Open for Isolation Mastered

15/05/2020

A committee will make their selections based on whose work presents an innovative dialogue with this isolation period....

Sixth Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize Awarded to Kam Wa Magus Yuen

12/05/2020

The still life brings to mind the civil unrest by the anti-extradition law amendment bill proposed by the Hong Kong government....

Spaceship Hype: Global Stakes Trapped in Story

07/05/2020

Usually the truth is weirder than the hype, but in this case the truth is realer than the reality. Spaceship Earth a documentary on Biosphere 2....

Leading Writers Take Up ‘Darkness Residencies’ for Art Project

06/05/2020

Bernardine Evaristo, Max Porter and Raymond Antrobus rise to artist Sam Winston’s challenge in A Delicate Sight to submit to time in blackout....

Cache of Russian Avant-Garde Works Surfaces in Basement

05/05/2020

Art historian Andrey Sarabyanov is planning a new exhibition of forgotten pieces by Kandinsky, Rodchenko and Stepanova....

Revealing the Creative World of the City of London

25/04/2020

A photography commission goes behind the scenes across the City of London to reveal its untold stories, hidden gems, and undiscovered creative champions....

Whitechapel Gallery Launches Artists’ Film International Programme

25/04/2020

Language is the common theme for this year's AFI programme, with every artist's film using language to intensify place. ...

Earth Day Prompts First Ever Global Stealth Street Art Event

25/04/2020

For the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, more than 500 artists bring passion and protest to the first ever global stealth street art event....

UK Science Museum Group Building Coronavirus Collection

25/04/2020

Curators are amassing material and considering how to “collect important objects on behalf of the nation as a record of the medical, scientific and cultural responses to the outbreak”....

Looted Benin Art Treasures to Go Online

17/04/2020

The project will unite pieces from the former kingdom of Benin that were spread around the world after being looted by British troops....

Oldest Ever Piece of String Made by Neanderthals

10/04/2020

The discovery suggests that Neanderthals knew how to make cords, and raises the question of whether modern humans learned some of their skills from Neanderthals....

The Other Art Fair Presents Online Studios

09/04/2020

In partnership with online art gallery Saatchi Art, Online Studios will roll out city-specific features in line with the original spring fair schedule....

Bagri Foundation Launch Open Call for Asian Creatives

07/04/2020

At Home in the World is inspired by Vietnamese philosopher and Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s collection of autobiographical stories of the same name....

Archaeologists Discover Trove of Silver Coins Hidden in Slovakian Renaissance Church

03/04/2020

The significant historical find was made after construction workers discovered ruins underneath the 19th-century church they were renovating....

Sotheby’s Announce Sale of Rare DC Comics from Private Collection of Music Producer Ian Levine

01/04/2020

The selection comprises over 40,000 comics released between 1935 – 2014, featuring iconic American comic book characters such as Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Batman. ...

Scientists Turn Ancient Egyptian Pigment Into Vital New Biomedical Tool

31/03/2020

The pigment behaves as a fluorophore, a light-emitting material used to stain samples so they can be seen at clearer resolution under modern microscopes....

Artist Releases Paintings Responding to the Coronavirus From Lockdown

25/03/2020

David Downes, a landscape painter who amplifies the sense of place and time through the lens of autism, is painting one piece a day throughout isolation....

New Platform Allows Galleries to Create Virtual-Reality Exhibitions Using 3D-Scanning Technology

24/03/2020

Vortic offers galleries customisable virtual gallery spaces to show their art using virtual and augmented reality technology....

NFTS Releases Key Findings of Graduate Impact Report

20/03/2020

The National Film and Television School has evolved to become a leading global institution, developing some of Britain and the world’s top creative talent....

Genesis P-Orridge Dies After Battle With Leukemia

17/03/2020

The pioneering cult hero, who adopted a third gender, is known for reinventing he/r own body as a work of art....

Acclaimed American Artist Dale Chihuly Returns to London

13/03/2020

Sims Reed Gallery present an exhibition of fine art prints and original works on paper by the internationally renowned American artist Dale Chihuly....

Not Without My Ghosts: The Artist As Medium

06/03/2020

Major exhibition explores the changing historical and aesthetic terms of artistic engagement with mediumship from the 19th century to present day....

LOVE, ART, LOSS: The Wives of Stanley Spencer

04/03/2020

Show seeks to shed light on the effect Spencer’s two wives had on his artistic practice while also examining the love triangle that existed between them....

Major John Hitchens Retrospective

03/03/2020

Aspects of Landscape features more than 50 works spanning nearly six decades, charting Hitchens' evolution from a descriptive to unique form of abstract painting. ...