12+ hour, 31+ min ago   (170+ words) MARY HEILMANN Neo Noir 1998 Oil and acrylic on canvas Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Heilmann described her life as a solitary pursuit of artistic purpose. In her Catholic upbringing, she had loved reading about the saints, she said, because in their stories…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (277+ words) The La Tourette exhibition opens on 16 September and runs until 18 November. The Koblenz survey, titled Bridge, opens on 30 August and continues until 1 November. Although distinct in scale and approach, the two shows illuminate each other in ways that make seeing…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (335+ words) Abu Dhabi has appointed Dr Valerie Hillings as the first director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, marking a significant step towards the opening of the long-awaited museum on Saadiyat Island. Hillings is no stranger to the project. Between 2009 and 2018, she served…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (173+ words) Everyone loves a cushion, don’t they? To prop you up when you’re reading, or breastfeeding a baby, to rest a swollen ankle or place worn feet upon, to have pillow fights against today’s sworn enemies, to build nests and encampments…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (252+ words) Turkish artist Hasan Yiğit’s recent solo exhibition at Versus Arts London (from 27 June to 3 July 2026) – titled Trace, Transfer, Transform – marked a significant development in the artist’s ongoing visual exploration of abstraction, memory, and printmaking processes. Curated by Ilayda Uzunarslan, the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (206+ words) Artlyst Spencer Tunick Stages Nude Rainbow Pride Installation In Las Palmas The action took place in the early hours of the morning with no public spectators present, only Tunick and his production team on site. The cathedral, a sixteenth-century Roman…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (210+ words) Morgan holds an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art and undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from Cambridge. She was a Mellon Fellow at the Yale Centre for British Art and a Contemporary Art Curatorial Fellow at the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (178+ words) Artlyst Leibovitz’s became aware of the alleged infringement four years after it occurred. In May 2024, they sent Observer.com a letter demanding the image be removed from the site. The outlet did not respond. Further attempts to make contact with…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (194+ words) One hundred years after Willem de Kooning left Rotterdam and stowed away on a cargo ship bound for America, the Rijksmuseum is bringing him home. Willem de Kooning at Work, opening on 9 October 2026 and running until 17 January 2027, is the largest…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (605+ words) Looking at one of John Constable’s sketchbooks and seeing one of his drawings of a fir tree on Hampstead Heath, the poet William Blake exclaimed, “Why, this is not a drawing, but inspiration.” (1) And in the words of John Constable,…...