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Shepard Fairey's mural, Forward (2024), at Ella West Gallery in Durham, North Carolina Photo: Wyatt ClossLast week, a new mural by the artist Shepard Fairey appeared on the streets of…
In BEN GAZZARA, Arthur Jafa’s reinterpretation of Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle’s white victims are replaced with Black characters© Arthur Jafa, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone GalleryOne of art’s superpowers…
Eyes on the prize: Rojava FIlm Commune was awarded an Afield fellowship in 2020Courtesy Afield If a poll was taken for the term that best defines the art of the…
Paul Gauguin’s Self-portrait Jug (spring 1889)Design Museum Denmark, Copenhagen (photograph Pernille Klemp)Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent and expert on the artist.…
Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian at Perrotin's stand at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana caused an uproar at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019 and quickly went viral…
Carol Cole Levin Photo by Carolyn de Berry, 2024The North Carolina-based artist and philanthropist Carol Cole Levin, known for her feminist drawings and sculptures inspired by the human breast and…
The vast new open-access working store will house more than 250,000 objectsInternal render view showing the David Bowie Centre in V&A East Storehouse © IDKThe Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)…
Metropolis Island (2024) is one of Yu Hong’s new paintings that draw inspiration from the decaying seaside structures depicted in the Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin’s late 19th-century work Island of…
The Smithsonian Castle will temporarily reopen to the public in 2026 as part of the Smithsonian's celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the US’s founding Photo: Robert Lyle Bolton, via…
Van Gogh’s Head of a Woman (Gordina de Groot) (March-April 1885)Het Noordbrabants Museum, s’Hertogenbosch. Photograph Peter CoxAdventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing correspondent…