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Arts
A City Through Many Lenses
The Baltimore Museum of Art is presenting "Flashback: Two Centuries of Baltimore Photography," featuring over 200 images spanning 185 years that illustrate the city's historical…
ICA’s 90-Year Journey Through Art
The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston is celebrating its 90th anniversary with an exhibition that traces its history, artistic impact, and community involvement since…
Mark Dion: ‘Being Surrounded by Things is to be Inspired by Things’
The Concord Museum is hosting “Mark Dion: Eccentric Collectors Like Us,” an exhibition running through March 7 that features installations combining natural history, found objects,…
Venetian Summers Through a Misty Lens
Photographer Adolphe de Meyer and his wife Olga spent formative summers at Venice’s Palazzo Balbi-Valier in the early 1900s, restoring the mansion and hosting influential…
Le Large: A New Modern Art Museum on Former Renault Site
Paris has opened Le Large, a new modern art museum on the former Renault factory site on île Seguin, featuring a distinctive aluminum-scaled exterior and…
A bolt from the blue
Dulwich Picture Gallery is showcasing the first full UK presentation of Katsushika Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, featuring all 46 prints completed in…
‘I just don’t really have any fear’
Anthony Roth Costanzo, a renowned American countertenor, has released an autobiographical book and companion album that explore his personal journey and the cultural history of…
The world’s most famous chamber orchestra is showing the arts world how to thrive
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields has acquired a permanent headquarters in a Victorian warehouse near Waterloo, providing new studios, offices, and space…
Singapore scenes shine at Tate Modern art photo show
Tate Modern in London has opened "Light And Magic: The Birth Of Art Photography," an exhibition featuring 200 vintage prints by over 80 photographers from…
Blurring the Line Between Dimensions
Torkwase Dyson's exhibition "Seeing in Blue" at Pace Gallery presents 13 paintings that merge painting and sculpture through layered acrylic washes and attached brass hardware…
Peter Nagy, Artist Turned Art Dealer Who Left New York for India, Dies at 66
Peter Nagy, a pioneering artist and gallerist who fostered connections between the New York and Indian contemporary art worlds, passed away on October 13 in…
‘Shakespeare was a Black woman’: the playwright’s under-recognized connection to Black culture
The Folger Shakespeare Library has opened *To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare*, an exhibition exploring over four centuries of Black women’s engagement with…
‘A key artist in her own right’: wallpaper and fabrics designer emerges from William Morris’s shadow
New research and an upcoming exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum are recognizing Kate Faulkner as a key designer behind many of William Morris’s iconic wallpapers…
A Self-Reflective Survey That Spans Centuries at China Institute Gallery
The China Institute Gallery in New York is celebrating its 60th anniversary with an exhibition featuring nearly 90 works spanning three millennia of Chinese art,…
Other lives: Brian Case music writer and arts editor tribute
Brian Case, a renowned British music and arts writer and editor, has died at the age of 88 after a distinguished career contributing to publications…
Will Burnham back culture?
Andy Burnham’s government has yet to present a clear national arts strategy despite his background in culture and ongoing sector challenges from funding cuts, Brexit,…
A marriage of freedom and constraint
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has opened *Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,* an exhibition examining the complex personal and artistic relationship between Lee Krasner and…
Photo show has negative effect
Tate Modern’s "Light and Magic" exhibition surveys the global development of pictorialism and its intersections with modernist photography from the late 19th to mid-20th century,…
A tour around Amy Winehouse’s private junk: five free art exhibitions to see
Multiple new art exhibitions in London explore themes from celebrity culture and urban decay to technological change and environmental issues through varied media, running until…
Berlin show revisits the artist who turned the Queen into a Nazi
Berlin’s Gropius Bau gallery is hosting an exhibition of Christoph Schlingensief’s provocative works, including his controversial 2006 theatrical production *Kaprow City*, which explored media spectacle,…
‘I must continue until I die’: inside the fight to bring Iran’s thriving art scene to the world
Iranian artist Elham Issari and many others face severe material shortages and financial hardship as military strikes and sanctions disrupt the country’s art market. In…
Jeff Koons is selling US$100 million of his art collection
Jeff Koons is auctioning a $100 million collection of artworks in November at Christie’s New York, featuring nine paintings by masters including Picasso and Manet.…
A Fidai Film review - Palestinian collage film transforms suppressed footage into works of art
Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari’s *A Fidai Film* repurposes censored archival footage seized during the 1982 Lebanese civil war to highlight ongoing Palestinian struggles through a…
Pine cones, glitter and a hip-hop head for sale: red-hot artists reveal their Frieze stunners
The Frieze art fair returned to Regent’s Park, London, featuring prominent British-based contemporary artists such as Kira Freije, Mohammed Z Rahman, Alvaro Barrington, Louise Giovanelli,…
BBC’s Choral Evensong Celebrates 100 Years
Westminster Abbey held a special service to celebrate 100 years of the BBC’s Choral Evensong broadcasts, featuring performances of both historic and newly commissioned choral…
Can young theatre-makers act for 50 hours straight, fuelled by pizza and determination?
Australia’s Shopfront Arts Co-op is reviving its signature 50-hour act-a-thon fundraiser this weekend, featuring young artists performing original works in hour-long blocks, livestreamed for the…
‘It’s not about sex but empowerment’: why I picked a ‘naked’ frock as dress of the year
The Fashion Museum Bath has selected a daffodil yellow mesh dress from Julia Fox’s Givenchy debut and a menswear ensemble from the late Giorgio Armani’s…
Patel and Peake do Booker readings
Actors Himesh Patel and Maxine Peake perform excerpts from Luke Kennard’s *Black Bag* and Elizabeth Strout’s *The Things We Never Say* in a series of…
‘If it’s too slick, it looks like a fashion mag’: Peter Zumthor on his £110m rammed concrete gallery
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has completed a £110 million extension to the Beyeler Foundation museum in Riehen, near Basel, his first project in his hometown.…
Play that funky Turbine Hall! How artist Tarek Atoui aims to take the Tate on a sonic odyssey
Lebanese-born artist Tarek Atoui will launch an interactive sound installation in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall from October 13, 2024, to April 11, 2027, inviting visitors…