Art
LONDON — Looking back at history, one encounters certain individuals who reflect the changing attitudes, social values, or cultural trends of their times, while certain others seem to define and embody them; they’re the ones who become the symbols of the spirit of an age.
Interview
LONDON — Dr. Brad Butler, radical filmmaker, contemporary artist, and international traveller, is bantering with the down-to-earth staff of a bustling London café.
Art
LONDON — In 2000 Mark Francis and Jay Jopling curated an experimental exhibition project with a simple formula: one exhibition per week for 50 weeks.
Art
MEXICO CITY — Last year, London-based polymath Nahum became the first artist recognized by the International Astronautical Federation as a young leader in space exploration.
In Brief
Are you a photorealist painter? Are you looking for a full-time job? Are you based in (or willing to move to) London or Devon?
Art
The name Bedlam is so evocative of chaos and madness, the real history of one of the world's oldest institutions for the treatment of mental illness often gets detached from its public presence.
Art
Nearly a century after all 2,600 pounds of it were cast into the murky water of London's River Thames, what remains of the lost Doves Press type has been recovered by divers.
Art
In the 1920s and ’30s, Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco painted murals that powerfully illustrated the issues of their day. Today, street artists rule the nation’s walls.
Art
Museum displays are constantly in flux, as institutions choose what identity they want to present to the public.
Art
LONDON — On February 4 from 9 to 11 am the National Gallery of London witnessed the second episode in a five-day strike by museum staff and members of the Public and Commercial Services Union
Art
LONDON — The best works on view in this seven-artist selection are "post-internet" experiments (sorry) that probe the ways in which the internet has reconfigured, and continues to reconfigure, such charged arenas as identity, surveillance, and labor.
News
As part of a major reuse project for London's Olympic Park, the Smithsonian Institution may create its first long-term, overseas exhibition venue.