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Dallas Whale Mural Artist Wyland Sues FIFA After World Cup Paint-Over
The legal battle follows weeks of public anger after a nearly 30-year-old downtown landmark was mostly covered up to make way for a World Cup-related project.
‘An endless silent scream feeling’: artist Roni Horn on horror, hope and landing in a lake in Iceland
She’s famous for sculptures that seem both solid and liquid. Now she has created a show amidst the ‘downfall of America’ inspired by a phrase from a comedy routine that…
Was Churchill a Serious Artist? This Exhibition Says, ‘Yes.’
In the first major British retrospective for over 60 years, a London museum seeks to recast the wartime leader as a painter with emotional depth.
Edinburgh College of Art Graduate Show 2026 review: ‘thought and craft’
This year’s ECA degree show sees skills and imagination combined with impressive results, writes Susan Mansfield
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2026 review: ‘clear ideas, well executed’
This year’s enormous GSA Degree show will leave you bewitched, bewildered and footsore, writes Susan Mansfield
‘A new way to express myself’: Harlem teens share their lives through photography – in pictures
For the past 25 years, Expanding the Walls program has allowed teenagers to express their identities and their lives via photography. In Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History,…
Art and design
My latest masterpiece – a house for toy farm animals! What my son learned from a day making art at home
Fed up with dragging your children out the door to visit famous artworks they’re too grumpy to appreciate? Channel your inner Miffy and you’ll find inspiration all around the houseThere’s…
Painting
Elizabeth Blackadder exhibition reveals wintry Tuscan landscapes and minimalist still lifes
Early works show a less familiar side to the Scottish artist celebrated for her flower and cat paintingsShe may be best known for accessible paintings of flowers and cats but…
Museums
The hill I will die on: Let me tell you the one big problem with art galleries. There’s too much art | Isabel Brooks
They often boast thousands of great works – but who needs that? I can only really engage with one or two before feeling exhaustedVisiting an art gallery always goes the…
Photography
Vegemite, VB and Hills hoists: Drew Hopper’s scenes from outback Australia – in pictures
Drew Hopper’s photographs of inland New South Wales reveal a cinematic Australia shaped by long drives and fleeting encounters. His series West of Somewhere East is showing at Yarrila Arts…
Art and design
Green and pleasant views, digital dreams and a White Stripe sculpts – the week in art
British landscape painting from Gainsborough to Hepworth, Wendy McMurdo’s uncanny portraits and Jack White’s debut exhibition – all in your weekly dispatchBritish Landscapes: A Sense of PlaceThe romance and mystery…
Art
Don’t: Camille Henrot review – surreal sexual psychodrama for the digitally overwhelmed
Perimeter, LondonTesticles have faces and a fox licks a phallus as the French artist mixes online anxiety, family life and saucy erotica in works charged with meaningCamille Henrot used to…
Painting
‘I lived near a serial killer’: Steven Shearer on turning teen angst and death metal into high art
He rarely gives interviews and hates explaining his work – yet his stunning paintings, inspired by subcultures and German Romanticism, reveal a lot about this reclusive CanadianSteven Shearer is a…
Real Estate and Housing (Residential)
How to Make Wallpaper Art
Start out with a low-stakes installation on an art canvas. You’ll learn the basics, and you can easily undo it.
The new Noida International Airport is graced with Paresh Maity’s paintings
Paresh Maity’s paintings and installation at the recently-inaugurated Noida International Airport let you creates a sense of place to unwind and carry back a slice of cultural memory
Art
Firelei Báez Harvests Trickster Energy to Remap Stories of the World
In her new exhibition, the Dominican painter retooled graphics from the past to reimagine the future.
Art
Florentina Holzinger’s 9-Hour Spectacle Pushes the Limits of Body Art
The choreographer-provocateur followed a hit show at the Venice Biennale with one in Vienna. “Violence is something we’re used to,” she said.
Art
Magnus Linklater on ‘a hugely important moment’ for Little Sparta
Ian Hamilton Finlay’s garden Little Sparta has been described as ‘the most important work of art made in Scotland in the second half of the 20th century’. Now its future…
Art
For Rent: A One-Bedroom Coyote House
The artist Johnny DeFeo reimagined his wildlife paintings as a tiny adventure house that he constructed high in the New Mexican desert. (Vacationers, check Airbnb.)
Photography
Coke can hair rollers and Puerto Rican pride: the street photography of Janette Beckman – in pictures
Four decades of Janette Beckman’s images will be on view until 18 April 2027 at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP). The exhibit Rebels + Icons: The Photography of Janette…
Lifestyle
Inside Studio Puyu, Langkawi’s hidden artistic retreat
Tucked away in Kampung Bohor Merah, this once-abandoned house is now filled with Suhaimi Fadzir's paintings, sculptures and salvaged treasures.
Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington work painted during psychiatric confinement to go on show for first time
Exclusive: Villa Pilar, painted in 1940 during the surrealist artist’s stay in a Spanish sanatorium, will be displayed at London’s Freud museumA recently discovered painting by the surrealist artist Leonora…
Art
Bringing Courbet’s ‘A Burial at Ornans’ Back to Life, While Visitors Watch
The Musée d’Orsay demystified art conservation by turning the meticulous, yearlong restoration of a 22-foot Gustave Courbet painting into a public event.
Books
How Garry Trudeau’s Doonesbury cartoons captured America: ‘One of our nation’s greatest journalists’
A new book looks back at the work of artist and journalist Garry Trudeau and how he told the story of a country’s highs and lows through a comic stripIn…
Leïla Slimani
‘Writing is exactly like love – you need to do it in the dark’: novelist Leila Slimani on why literature is erotic
Now in residence at the Madrid Prado, the author talks about its dark, inspirational Goyas, the clandestine nature of her writing – and why she finally wrote about her jailed…
Art
Ben Morea, Principal Provocateur of 1960s Anarchist Group, Dies at 84
An abstract painter who wanted to creatively destroy the gap between art and revolution, he loosely led a band of radicals with a profane name.
Photography
Stripteases, ecstatic embraces and a dog in a dress: the full-on photos celebrating queer dancefloors worldwide
A thrillingly unsanitised new photo book captures the liberating power of queer clubs in all their sexy, messy, kinky, cacophonous glory. ‘I wanted it to feel like a night out,’…
Art
Tess Jaray obituary
Influential artist and teacher who explored architectural and pictorial space in her workIn 1960, on a travelling scholarship from the Slade School of Fine Art, Tess Jaray, who has died…
Painting
‘Shocking? It’s only what you see in ancient temples’: painter T Venkanna on his joyous carnivals of copulation
Penises, vaginas and breasts abound in the Indian painter’s work. As the son of a Hindu priest, he says his orgasmic scenes give us a way to consider religionT Venkanna’s…
Art
Duncan of Jordanstone Degree Show, Dundee review: ‘digs deep into inner landscapes’
The best work in this year’s Duncan of Jordanstone Degree Show manages to be personal while also remembering its audience, writes Susan Mansfield
Travel
Fancy a European art break with fewer crowds? Try one of these five cities
Forget queuing at the Louvre or the Uffizi. You’ll find a fresh perspective on everything from medieval to modern art in places like Lille, Verona and ZurichZurich may be known…
Lifestyle
Ryzalman wants you to fall in love with wet markets all over again
Johor artist's first solo exhibition celebrates the nostalgic rhythms of this Malaysian culture.
Belgium
Rare Rubens notebook sheet goes on display in artist’s home city of Antwerp
Double-sided page featuring a sketch and text sheds new light on the baroque master and his time living in RomeMore than 400 years ago, the up and coming Flemish painter…
Art
How Art Auctions Choreographed a $2.5 Billion Comeback
After four years of uneven sales, the auction houses engineered a successful season by redefining the expectations of buyers and sellers.
Forests and Forestry
Traveling the Hudson River Valley With Art as a Guide
Artists like Thomas Cole and Frederic Church left us evidence of what America’s landscape was like 200 years ago. Using science, and art history, a writer follows their trail through…