What I’m Reading: Apples, Private Actors and Marina Abramovic
A retrospective of the performance artist’s work at the Royal Academy of Arts in London captures boundaries being violently tested and redrawn.
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Guernsey museum brings Renoir’s art to island that inspired him
Exhibition honours French impressionist whose landscapes have helped island create jobs and forge global tiesThe island of Guernsey may be best known as a tax haven for the super-wealthy, a pleasant holiday destination, and for the rich milk its docile…
Scotland’s national galleries have ‘long way to go’ to be inclusive, says outgoing chief
Exclusive: Sir John Leighton says galleries still need to broaden audience beyond Edinburgh middle classes and touristsScotland’s national galleries, which house some of the country’s greatest works of art, need to do far more to make themselves access…
Arkansas moves to install ‘monument to unborn children’ on state grounds
Designs for the commemoration to ‘unborn children aborted during the era of Roe v Wade’ must be turned in by SaturdayArkansas is building a “monument to unborn children” on the grounds of its state capitol, and Saturday marks the last day for its would…
New gallery spaces showcasing Scottish art to open in Edinburgh
Much-delayed £38.6m project brings works from 1800 to 1945 together for the first time as single collectionA suite of new galleries built to present work by many of Scotland’s most famous artists, including the Glasgow Boys, Phoebe Anna Traquair and Ch…
Forgotten Artemisia Gentileschi painting found in Hampton Court storeroom
The very personal work, owned by Charles I, discovered after being left in storage for years“A woman’s name raises doubts until her work is seen,” wrote the artist Artemisia Gentileschi to a collector of her paintings in 1649, going on to assure him th…
An old master? No, it’s an image AI just knocked up … and it can’t be copyrighted
US ruling on works created through artificial intelligence gives boost to creative workers fighting for livelihoodsThe use of AI in art is facing a setback after a ruling that an award-winning image could not be copyrighted because it was not made suff…
Cartoonists create colouring book for refugees in rebuff to UK government
Welcome to Britain produced after minister ordered mural at Kent migrant centre to be painted overUK politics live – latest updatesIt was an act of mean-spiritedness that shocked people across the political spectrum. In April, a UK government minister …
Bob Ross’s first TV painting goes on sale for nearly $10m
Minneapolis gallery puts A Walk in the Woods, the first of over 400 paintings Ross produced for The Joy of Painting, up for saleBob Ross was an artist who brought painting to the people, his works completed for PBS viewers in less than a half-hour with…
London church unveils artwork to commemorate African-born abolitionist
Che Lovelace paintings in St James’s church are first permanent art commission to honour Quobna Ottobah CugoanoA permanent artwork to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the baptism of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, one of Britain’s most important abolitioni…