Sylvain Amic, recently appointed director of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, has died suddenly at the age of 58. The news was confirmed on Sunday by France’s Culture Minister, Rachida Dati. According to ...

President Trump has issued a new Executive Order directing that classical architecture serve as the default style for Federal civic buildings.

A Banksy Piranha installation awaits its next appearance: a prime spot in the newly refurbished London Museum in Smithfield.

A sculpture by Barbara Hepworth of tremendous aesthetic and historical importance has been saved for the nation following a ...

September provides an opportunity to look back as well as look forward. The celebrations for the centenary of Francis Newton Souza’s birth culminated in the first half of 2025 ...

Double Vision brings together two paintings, both known as The Guitar Player. One painting, a treasure from Kenwood’s Iveagh Bequest, is signed by the great Johannes Vermeer (1632-75). The origin of ...

Jean-François Millet began his career painting imitations of 18th-century French painters but became moved by social injustice.

The BLM protests in recent weeks have shown us how relevant issues of race still are. It's shocking to see that racial discrimination still exists in this day and age. It is our role as cultural ...

Contemporary Art collides with culture to ignite something extraordinary. Nowhere is this fusion more electrifying than at art fairs.

Peter Doig: White Canoe 1990/1: According to the critic Harold Rosenberg, writing in 1952: ‘At a certain moment, the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which ...

Greenpeace climbers have mounted a provocative artwork on a North Sea gas rig as heatwaves ravage the UK and beyond. In a protest, Greenpeace activists have installed a monumental new work by the ...

For the February 2025 Art Diary, I begin with Peter Howson, Jonathan Anderson, Barbara Hepworth and Theaster Gates.