News about visual arts, exhibitions, painting, sculpture, photography, and artistic expressions. Top story: Down by the Hudson – ode to a New York swimming...
For more than a decade Caleb Stein has been photographing a communal swimming creek in Poughkeepsie, New York. Returning every summer, he documented the community at a timeless spot. He...
When Jackson Pollock painted Blue Poles, his masterpiece of American abstract expressionism, little did he...
At about 8.47pm on the evening of 15 August, while tens of thousands of worshippers filled the streets of...
Stavroula Adameitis, AKA Frida Las Vegas, is an Adelaide-based artist and designer known for her camp, pop...
I hear the Golden Girls of Eastbourne before I see them – hooting laughter leaking out of a house in the East...
A family day in a Florida back yard was the setting for a summertime memory it would be impossible to recreate Trace Meek is abundantly proud of his Florida back yard. For the last 10...
The Nepal-Tibet flood disaster, Russian strikes in Kyiv, Israeli settlers in the West Bank and tributes to Dolly Parton – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading...
The British Museum’s landmark cultural exchange is a symbol of post-Brexit rapprochement between Britain and France “Harold Rex interfectus est”: King Harold is killed. As every British...
A street artist has defended his mural of the snooker player Ronnie O’Sullivan in Sheffield after critics suggested the world champion looked like a zombie. Chris Ashmore was commissioned...
Moving Blue Poles is never straightforward. At more than 2m high and nearly 5m long, the legendary Jackson Pollock painting has almost always been too big for wherever it needs to go. When...
Exhibition of the week Victory Over the SunA Russian futurist spectacle from 1913 gives this grand survey of light art its title. Luminous works by Olafur Eliasson, Ceal Floyer and many...
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Even one of her own bugs takes the mic as the wild card comedian delivers these disconnected bits There’s an excellent joke about art school in Marty...
Thieves have stolen the Treasure of Villena – one of the greatest bronze age gold collections – in the latest high-profile heist of a European museum, officials said. The early morning raid...
With dots that dizzied the viewer, the giddy sensory overload of seeing the grandest installations of her octopuses and giant pumpkins was hard to resist • Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who...
Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese outsider artist who became a global superstar, has died aged 97. Kusama died in a Tokyo hospital on 14 August, her company Yayoi Kusama Inc announced in a...
In his trailblazing work, paint is pushed through the back of hemp to create spare, striking paintings. Abstraction is a form of rebellion, he says – and he has no intention of slowing down...
The South African photographer documented her country’s harrowing Truth and Reconciliation Commission. These pictures form part of a new exhibition – alongside intimate images of actors,...