News
Man Vandalized a Picasso Portrait of Dora Maar at Tate Modern
Shakeel Massey, a 20-year-old from north London, was arrested for allegedly ripping the $26 million painting. The damage to the artwork is being assessed by a Tate conservation team.
United Kingdom
Art
The Raucous and Frenetic Energy of Nam June Paik
As a recent retrospective at Tate Modern demonstrates, even fitted with decades-old circuitry, Nam June Paik’s work still pulses with energy, breakneck and experimental.
In Brief
Turner Prize Will Be Split Among All Four Nominees, at Their Request
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Tai Shani, and Oscar Murillo told the judges in a letter, "The politics we deal with differ greatly, and for us it would feel problematic if they were pitted against each other."
Film
The Documentary Project That's Followed the Same Subjects for Over 50 Years
63 Up is the latest installment in the Up series, which has revisited a set of British people every seven years since they were children, tracking their lives and development.
Film
North Korea as a Multifaceted State Instead of a Boogeyman
Filmmaker Soon-mi Yoo is getting her own focus at the London Korean Film Festival. Her 2014 documentary Songs from the North takes a neutral approach toward a nation that is usually reviled or laughed at.
In Brief
UK Cultural Institutions Get a Major £250 Million Boost
The development fund for cultural institutions — including libraries, museums, and “creative industries” — is the government’s biggest-ever investment in the cultural sector.
Art
Designing a Sculptural Synthetic Skin
Holly Hendry’s works offer an innovative view on the repurposing of materials in art, exploring how things usually considered to be trash can be recycled.
Art
Antony Gormley Explores the Body as a Space Within a Space
This exhibition, Antony Gormley returns repeatedly to the motif of the artist’s own body to explore the significance of differences in scale and the negative space around an artwork.
News
Kara Walker Satirizes Britain's Public Sculptures with a Monument to Trans-Atlantic Slavery
Kara Walker upends the Tate Modern with a massive fountain, renewing the debate about the nature of public monuments in the heart of violent empire.
News
Hundreds of Art Workers Join Global Climate Strike in London
On Friday, September 20, around 200 art workers, many of whom have been staunchly urging UK institutions to divest from oil sponsorship, left work and took to the streets to take part in the world’s largest-ever climate protest.
News
Rubens and Hirst Among 46 Objects Donated to British Museums in £58.6 Million Tax Deal
The "cultural gifts" and "acceptance in lieu" schemes arrange tax breaks for the wealthy in exchange for valuable artworks going to the nation's museums. Some say the arrangement has saved local cultural institutions.
In Brief
The Hidden Secrets of Leonardo da Vinci's "Virgin of the Rocks"
Advanced imaging techniques have revealed Leonardo's original design to be vastly different from the final product.