News
Strikingly Preserved Roman Statues Discovered During Railway Dig
Archaeologists excavating along the route of the new HS2 railway in England unearthed three Roman busts in a find they describe as "once in a lifetime."
United Kingdom
Opinion
The Problem With Exhibitions About "The Times We Live In"
The noble ambitions of these shows doom them to be listicles, box-ticking exercises struggling to meaningfully speak to the issues of our sociocultural moment.
News
Curator Discovers What May Be the World's Earliest Depiction of a Ghost
"Everybody in Mesopotamia, as far as I understand it, believed in ghosts," said Irving Finkel, a curator of the British Museum's Middle Eastern department.
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."
Opinion
What Public Art Might Look Like After the Pandemic
Our approach as an organization with 25 years of experience in producing digital community arts has been to reverse the power relations.
Art
Pro-Palestinian Artwork by Forensic Architecture Was Censored by University of Manchester
After learning that its statement had been removed from the exhibition, Forensic Architecture requested that its works be withdrawn from the exhibition.
News
Swirling Images of the Cosmos, as Seen From Earth
See the encapsulating images shortlisted for the 2021 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.
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Over 100 Unpublished Hokusai Drawings Resurface in New Exhibition
Created nearly 200 years ago for the artist’s unpublished The Great Picture Book of Everything, the works will go on view at the British Museum.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.