News
Nigerian Artists Offer to Swap Work for British Museum’s Benin Bronzes
"We never stopped making the bronzes even after those ones were stolen," said a founding member of the Ahiamwen Guild. "I think we make them even better now."
London
Art
Charting Black Resistance in the UK Since the 1940s
A carefully curated exhibition at ICA London lays bare the insidious nature of the subjugation of Black people in Britain.
Art
Paula Rego’s Raging Women
Rego’s women are always independent spirits, and they are often raging.
Art
What Does It Mean to Create Afrofuturistic Art?
In this apocalyptic future that Sedrick Chisom so vividly builds, all people of color have left Earth.
Opinion
Critics of the New Princess Diana Statue Are Missing the Point
The question we should be asking of the sculpture is not whether it is a great work of art but whether it’s effective at defining a legacy.
News
Citing Pro-Israel Ties, 25 Artists Disaffiliate From London Collection
Artists and cultural workers are withdrawing their work from the Zabludowicz Collection "in solidarity with Palestinian liberation."
Art
Over 100 Unpublished Hokusai Drawings Resurface in New Exhibition
Created nearly 200 years ago for the artist’s unpublished The Great Picture Book of Everything, the works will go on view at the British Museum.
Art
Unraveling Rodin’s Artistic Mystique
A corrective to the sculptor’s self-aggrandizing, The Making of Rodin draws attention to the hidden figures who made his work possible.
Art
Jean Dubuffet’s Highs and (Controversial) Lows
Curiously, Dubuffet’s anti-hierarchical approach to art did not translate to similar views on society.
Art
JR, Down the Barrel of the Camera
This is a public, political art that invites us to see the world differently, and even encourage the spirit of community.
News
Newly Unveiled Princess Diana Sculpture Prompts Criticism
The larger-than-life statue shows the late princess surrounded by three children.
News
Artist-Activists Arrested at “Cut the Crap” Protests in London
Extinction Rebellion cheekily called the action at Daily Mail offices its "Submission for the 2021 Turner Prize."