80 days ago

Nnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prize ⊕⊕

found 2025 › Dec › 09 (Tue) @ 20:50 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Chair of 2025 judging panel says win ‘begins to erase that border between the neurotypical and neurodiverse artist’

Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winner

Nnena Kalu…

2 months ago

The Guardian view on Turner and Constable: radical in different ways | Editorial ⊕

found 2025 › Nov › 28 (Fri) @ 18:50 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Capturing the changing landscapes of the 18th century, the rivals transformed British art. The climate emergency gives new urgency to their work

JMW Turner appears on £20 notes and gives his name to B…

Turner v Constable: Tate Britain exhibition invokes long history of artistic rivalries ⊖

found 2025 › Nov › 28 (Fri) @ 18:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

From Michelangelo and Leonardo to Picasso and Matisse, bitter feuds have defined art. But are contemporary artists more collaborative than their renaissance predecessors?

“He has been here and fired a…

4 months ago

‘Out on a damn limb’: the daredevil photography of Lee Miller – in pictures ⊖

found 2025 › Sep › 30 (Tue) @ 06:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

A fearless war photographer, a peerless surrealist, a chronicler of Egypt and Syria … a new exhibition at Tate Britain explores how Lee Miller became one of the most urgent voices of 20th-century art

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8 months ago

Jazz, Paris and war’s brutality: the radical watercolours of Edward Burra, British art’s great unknown ○

found 2025 › Jun › 05 (Thu) @ 07:25 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

He called art ‘fart’ and hated talking about his work, but a rare retrospective offers the chance to celebrate the radical visions of the 20th-century British painter

On any objective reading, Edward …

9 months ago

UK’s largest Lee Miller retrospective to be held at Tate Britain ○

found 2025 › May › 22 (Thu) @ 14:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Exhibition will showcase her entire career, from French surrealism to fashion and war photography

The UK’s largest retrospective of the American photographer and photojournalist Lee Miller, who produc…

10 months ago

Dolls 'salvaged' from thrift shops, VHS tape sculptures and war trauma paintings: The four artists shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize are revealed ○

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 16:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Announced today at Tate Britain - on what would have JMW Turner's 250th birthday - the shortlist has attracted criticism for failing to be revolutionary in the same way as previous years.

Henry Gibbs painting looted by Nazis to be returned to Jewish art dealer’s family ○

found 2025 › Mar › 29 (Sat) @ 08:31 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Samuel Hartveld’s great-grandchildren to welcome back stolen 17th-century painting that was sold to Tate Britain

A 17th-century painting by Henry Gibbs that was looted by the Nazis and has been in the…

11 months ago

Note perfect: Ed Atkins’s daily Post-it drawings – in pictures ○

found 2025 › Mar › 22 (Sat) @ 18:06 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

In 2020, the English artist Ed Atkins started drawing on Post-it notes and sticking them to his daughter’s school lunchbox. As well as “little hellos”, they were also, amid the power-down of the pand…

12 months ago

Burberry draws a VERY glitzy crowd as Brooklyn Beckham and his wife Nicola Peltz join Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Geri Halliwell and Orlando Bloom attending heritage brand's LFW show ○

found 2025 › Feb › 25 (Tue) @ 07:15 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The stars were out in force for Burberry's London Fashion Week show on Monday held at the Tate Britain.