3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (117+ words) The Fourth Plinth is funded by the Mayor of London with support from Arts Council England and Bloomberg Philanthropies. The production of Self’s work was also backed by her London-based gallery, Pilar Corrias. The Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, chaired by…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (290+ words) Jacopo Robusti—better known as Tintoretto—was revered by French painters from Jean-Honoré Fragonard to Paul Cézanne. His facility for narrative drama inspired Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix, and provoked Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, who was enthralled but troubled by the Venetian…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (669+ words) We are living in a second Gilded Age. At least, a very, very select few of us are. Economists have crunched the numbers charting the growth of extreme wealth in the US over the last 120 years and have come to…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (157+ words) Andy Goldsworthy and Jenny Holzer have been recognised for their work in sculpture and painting respectively Holzer: © The Japan Art Association; Goldsworthy: Courtesy of Andy Goldsworthy The British Land artist Andy Goldsworthy has won the 2026 Praemium Imperiale Award for sculpture,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (422+ words) The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) has formed a new institutional partnership with the Ethiopian Heritage Authority (EHA), which will see five objects from a private collection returned to Ethiopia. “It’s left this donut hole where you end up with…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (544+ words) Geles Cabrera © and courtesy Geles Cabrera and OMR Gallery Over seven decades, the pioneering Mexican artist Geles Cabrera turned human forms into intimate, sensuous volumes in stone, terracotta and bronze. Recognised as Mexico’s first professional female sculptor, Cabrera died on…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (182+ words) The Bienal de Arte Paiz in Guatemala has appointed the Mexican critic, curator and historian Cuauhtémoc Medina as the curator of its 25th edition, to be held from November 2027 to February 2028 in Antigua and Guatemala City. The upcoming edition will mark…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (264+ words) A still from Beverly Buchanan’s film Cherry Blossom Festival Ocmulgee River Happening (1982) Courtesy of Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution “There’s a way in which we can think of divination as a kind of uncovering of hidden histories, giving us…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (335+ words) Rembrandt’s Youthful Self-portrait (1629) was smuggled out of Gotha by a former director of the Ducal Museum The self-portrait will be included in the exhibition Rembrandt 1632: The Creation of a Brand at the Ducal Museum (5 September-6 December). The show explores the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (132+ words) Frida: The Making of an Icon is organised into seven thematic sections, with the first two rooms devoted to Construction/Self-Construction. In what may be the most coherent and persuasive (if expected, conventional) part of the show, there are some…...