A Keith Haring carousel, a Basquiat ferris wheel: long-lost pop art carnival gets new life in New York
In 1987, the great and good of the art scene designed rides for an avant garde ‘theme park’ in Hamburg. Decades later, Luna Luna has been lovingly resurrected
Stitched: from high-born women to crofters’ daughters, exhibition showcases two centuries of Scotland’s finest embroidered art
Showcasing Scotland’s finest handcrafts reflects the growing interest and market for embroidered textiles, as well as their increasing visibility in the arts.
Paul Gauguin was a violent paedophile. Should the National Gallery of Australia be staging a major exhibition of his work?
Should a public art gallery exhibit his work, highlighting the fact he was a seriously flawed human being? Or is this to quietly condone domestic violence and paedophilia? I do not know the answer.
As we welcome you to London this October, I am especially excited for everyone to discover a refreshed Frieze London. With a reimagined layout over a year in the making, it is a delight to see this new geography materialize and I can’t wait for you to explore it.
Historical auction results show centuries-old demand for women artists
Our exclusive analysis of auction records in Paris until 1850 reveals around 500 sales of works by women, and striking parallels to the art trade today
Artist Insights: Shanti Panchal - Jackson's Art Blog
In this Artist Insights film, Shanti Panchal shares his story, what inspires his work today, and how he developed his unique method of watercolour painting.
Joseph Cornell: how the reclusive artist conquered the art world – from his mum’s basement
Thinking inside the box: romantic, obsessive and shy, Cornell never moved out of his mother’s house, yet his strange, exquisite art brought him fame and friendships with Duchamp, Dalí and Warhol
Lonnie Holley review – America’s wreckage made into magical art
The artist and musician reclaims beauty and meaning from rubbish, decay and death, using materials from rusted padlocks to old organ pipes. It’s raw, inspiring and absolutely joyous
Béatrice Coron's cut stories: Béatrice Coron is an artist specialized in papercutting used in artist books, illustrations, and public art. Her cut designs are made of paper, glass or metal from small to monumental. Her works are in numerous collections such as The Metropolitan Museum NY, The Getty, and The Walker Art Center.
Where the Leaves Fall on Instagram: "Photographer Tamary Kudita’s powerful portraits aim to retell and recentre the often-obscured histories of Zimbabweans and other African cultures. Drawing from fabrics and mixing African and European histories, she uses fantastical imagination to explore identities. Tamary Kudita was born in Zimbabwe while her ancestry can be traced back to the Orange Free State, historical Boer state in Southern Africa. She studied fine art at the University of Cape Town and subsequently established herself in fine art photography. She maintains an active studio practice and has exhibited in Zimbabwe and outside the country. Her work attempts to convey a truthful narrative and demonstrate how she engages with issues of invisibility, re-contextualisation, appropriation, and subversion to preconceived ideas of Black personhood. Through portraiture, she merges her contemporary aesthetic with a historical aesthetic as a way of showing how the old informs the new. @a...
257 likes, 18 comments - wtlfmag on May 3, 2024: "Photographer Tamary Kudita’s powerful portraits aim to retell and recentre the often-obscured histories of Zimbabweans and other African...".
The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’
In the last four years, she has survived an aggressive cancer, opened her own art school – and produced stunning work. And she’s just getting started. She discusses sobriety, suffering and second chances
Art unlocked: critics on the one work that explains the great artists, from Turner to Basquiat
Expressionism, sculpture, video: the art world is so vast and varied it can be difficult to know where to start, even with its biggest names. Our writers suggest the one piece that can help you understand masters old and new
Who killed Caravaggio and why? His final paintings may hold the key
A killer himself, Caravaggio died at 38 – desperate, disfigured and on the run from the Knights of St John. His greatest works – with which he bargained for his life – cast light on one of art’s darkest mysteries