One of England’s greatest painters is to become the country's first-ever fine artist immortalized on a banknote.
October 2019 Art News
For the past thirty years, master printmaker Sarah Amos has bounced back and forth between Australia and Vermont, an unlikely melding of vastly different environments.
What is the role of a flower? It just exists. And those who like to go and look at it, smell it and like it, say, what a beautiful flower it is, it exists.
The autumn sales series at Sotheby’s Hong Kong attracted a new generation of art collectors, with 25% of all buyers aged under 40 years old.
On a Bank Holiday Sunday in August 2017 two metal detectorists, with a combined 40 years’ experience, stumbled across one of the most intriguing hoards of Roman artefacts to be discovered in Britain in recent memory. Under the cultivated earth of a farmer’s field in Gloucestershire in south-west England, the pair discovered an unusual deposit of broken hinges, buckles and studs, as well as 20 fragments of a four-foot tall bronze figure, pieces of cast animal-shaped bowls, half a pair of tweezers and the handle of a frying pan.
A beautiful new volume from Phaidon gives us a rare glimpse at life inside North Korea.
When historian and journalist Eve Kahn encountered a trove of letters from artist Mary Rogers Williams in 2012, there were scarce references to the late painter online, and her work had barely been exhibited over the past decades.
This fall the Portland Art Museum presents Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal..., the first major survey of the work of one of America’s most important conceptual artists working today.
Native American artifacts that were taken nearly 130 years ago are finally set to be returned to their sacred lands.
Sixty works exploring the complex story of plastic, from drawings and photographs to video installations and sculptures fabricated from found plastic, will be featured in Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials.
