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Russian pavilion to stay closed as outcry over Israel’s inclusion also grows – but nesting seagull provides some light relief The 61st Venice Biennale vernissage began on Tuesday under grey clouds and rain showers, as political tension, parties and protest dominated proceedings at one of the art world’s biggest events. Lubaina Himid, the British entrant, who has spent a career creating work that …

Amid a calming soundtrack of lapping waves and cooing birds, workers in brightly coloured paintings share glances that say: ‘What the hell are we doing here?’ But isn’t there more to not belonging than this show suggests? Home comforts aren’t always all that comfortable. Here at the Venice Biennale, Lubaina Himid paints an awkward, tense, uncomfortable portrait of our damp old home nation. Her in…

Together with the Performance Art Museum, six artists staged their covers in honor of the magazine, which ran from 1978 to 1997.

The Cuban-American artist likes to paint pretty young white men – inspired by his fascination with Holden Caulfield. So why do his portraits have a sinister edge? Hernan Bas has been living in Venice this year, painting tourists. He’s aware of the ironies. (He is the kind of tourist, he tells me, who started looking at Venetian property prices, oh, about a week into his stay.) The Cuban-American …

In the 1980s, she had to show her work in a corridor by the ICA’s toilet. Now she’s representing Britain at the ‘art Olympics’. So is the artist feeling a bit establishment? Quite the reverse The Venice Biennale opening is just days away but Lubaina Himid isn’t in a rush. The artist, who will represent Britain at the “Olympics of art”, is at home in Preston, where there’s an air of calm. Her wife…

Project to refurbish ‘Angels’ hailed huge success as dean says it will ‘lift spirits and rekindle hope’ Sam Kelly admitted there had been some nights of broken sleep as he led a two-year project to restore one of Salisbury Cathedral’s treasures, a stained-glass window by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris. “It would be wrong to say I didn’t lie awake sometimes,” said the head glazier. “You are…

From gigantic goat hair costumes to small hidden rooms in houses, this year’s photography festival takes a turn for the spectral Continue reading...

With its striking images and experimental soundtrack, artist Aura Satz’s film is an endurance test that might work better in a gallery This film from the London-based artist Aura Satz is an exploration of sirens – as in the warning devices, not the mythical creatures that lure unsuspecting men to their doom. Really it’s an art film, and might have been more at home in a gallery where audiences wo…

Melissa Bohn’s paintings don’t begin with a plan, they begin with feeling. And sometimes, they begin with her son. In one of her most personal works, she lets him paint freely on the canvas, then returns to echo his marks, building a shared visual language between instinct and experience. What emerges is something deeply alive—layers of emotion, movement, and connection that can’t be forced. Her …

Artist commends jury for resigning over inclusion of Russia and Israel but says reasoning should also have included US Anish Kapoor says the US should be excluded from the Venice Biennale because of the country’s “abhorrent politics of hate” and its “incessant warmongering”. The artist, who represented Britain at the 1990 edition , told the Guardian that he commended the biennale jury’s decision …

Arts Collective, Northampton An overdue celebration in her home town of this funny, direct, critical, satirical conceptualist shows her spiky social commentary is as fresh and relevant as ever Rose Finn-Kelcey wanted to make art that was neither pompous nor condescending. Those are pretty rare ideals in conceptualism, where pomposity and condescension come with the territory, but Finn-Kelcey was …

This story is part of a series highlighting the university’s outstanding graduates crossing the stage on May 16. A life in art was never a far-off dream for Arwen Addison. She grew up in a creative environment, shaped in part by her mother’s artistic influence and the example she set as Addison began to imagine […] The post Double major builds a life in the arts through scholarship support appear…

José Luis Rey Vila’s powerful sketches of street battles and wearied soldiers brought the conflict to the world. A new show in Barcelona celebrates his overlooked legacy Pablo Picasso may be the artist most famously associated with the Spanish civil war, but as the rifles fired in revolutionary Catalonia, it was those on the frontlines who first captured the conflict. One of the most important wa…

A new statue possibly by the artist Banksy was erected this week in the middle of the night in central London. The artwork depicts a suited man, blinded by the wind-blown flag he is carrying and walking unknowingly off the ledge of a tall pedestal. When the sun came up on the statue Wednesday morning, people were quick to note Banksy’s signature scrawled along the base of the statue’s plinth. On …

Exclusive: Scale model found in Christo’s studio leads to London realisation of internally lit Package on a Ceiling Christo once wrapped up the Reichstag, suspended a curtain across a Colorado valley and covered up the Pont Neuf in Paris. Now, six years after the artist’s death, a London gallery is to create a monumental installation he designed in 1968, using a detailed scale model and drawings …

How Color in Art Quietly Shapes the Way We Feel We don’t just look at art anymore. We… The post The Art You Hang Is Affecting You More Than You Realize appeared first on Arts To Hearts Project .

Sofía Ruiz’s work begins where memory breaks down. Growing up with her mother’s amnesia, she learned early that identity is not something fixed, but something assembled from fragments—some real, some imagined, some missing entirely. That understanding runs through her paintings, where children coexist with strange, ambiguous creatures that feel both unsettling and familiar. By stitching thread di…

Georg Baselitz, an acclaimed and award-winning neo-expressionist German artist with a penchant for provocation, has died. He had a career retrospective at LACMA in 1995.

Leading up to May Day, L.A. artist Edgar Ramirez drove through the streets of L.A. County to exhibit his latest artwork, a 40-foot shipping container that shares a message that all workers can get behind: "I Want to Be Free."

A revelatory Zurbarán show proves him the equal of Goya and Picasso, Angel Otero takes up a Somerset residency and Daiga Grantina brings nature to abstraction – all in your weekly dispatch Zurbarán A mind-bending, revelatory exhibition packed with extraordinary loans from the Prado and other top museums that prove this painter belongs with Goya and Picasso as a Spanish great. Read the review . •…