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Protesting the World’s Biggest Arms Fair with an Art Show

Art the Arms Fair, a pop-up exhibition in East London, runs concurrently with the massive Defence and Security Equipment International fair happening nearby.

Art

In London's Reopened Garden Museum, Horticulture History Is Told Among Tombs

The Garden Museum in London has reopened, showcase a recreation of a 17th-century curiosity cabinet, horticultural art, and the tombs of the deconsecrated church in which it's located.

Art

The First Sculptures of Dinosaurs

In 1854, the first sculptures of dinosaurs debuted in London's Crystal Palace Park, where they remain on view today and recall an age of Victorian science.

Art

Five Centuries of Robotic Machines Reflect Human and Technological Change

Five centuries of robots, from clockwork monks to mechanical actors, are explored in a major exhibition at London's Science Museum.

Art

Seeing Beyond Alberto Giacometti’s Bronzes

Tate Modern's retrospective of the Swiss sculptor, which gathers some 250 pieces, highlights his multi-pronged process and sustained work in plaster, wood, terracotta, oil paint, and more.

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Artist Khadija Saye Dies in Massive Fire in London Apartment Building [UPDATED]

The artist, who lived with her mother on the 20th floor of the 24-story building, was last heard from at 3am this morning.

In Brief

In Ongoing Crusade for Privacy, Residents of Glass Condos Sue Tate

Five residents of a luxury apartment complex claim Tate is violating the European Convention of Human Rights by letting visitors photograph their glass-walled flats.

Art

How Michelangelo and Sebastiano’s Roman Chapel Was Recreated in London

For its current exhibition on the Renaissance artists, the National Gallery collaborated with Factum Arte to create a complex reproduction of one of their most famous collaborations.

In Brief

Artist Traffics in Road Signs that Land Him in a Jam

Franck Allais drew controversy for installing a yield sign with the silhouette of a Hasidic man in an ultra-Orthodox London neighborhood.

Art

When English Arts and Crafts Met Japanese Woodblock Prints

The William Morris Gallery in London recalls the printmaking collaboration between Yoshijiro Urushibara and Frank Brangwyn in the 1920s.

Art

See the Original 1958 Sketches for the Peace Symbol

Gerald Holtom's rarely exhibited original sketches for the peace symbol will go on view this March at the Imperial War Museum in London.

Art

Why Victorian Men Had Glorious Beards

The Age of the Beard at the Florence Nightingale Museum in London examines through photographs the Victorian mania for elaborate facial hair.