Despite portraiture’s enduring appeal in art, novelty isn’t necessarily an attribute we associate with such a well-worn genre. In his solo exhibition at Cecilia Brunson Projects, Oisín Byrne delves into this form through …

    As far as art fairs go, you don’t get bigger than Art Basel. And that’s saying something when almost every week in global calendar heralds some kind of major art event. Barely had …

Slinakachu, the artist who has been ‘abandoning’ his miniature people on the streets of cities around the world since 2006, is exhibiting a new body of work at Andipa Gallery. Entitled Miniaturesque, the exhibition features seventeen …

    Diogenes of Sinope, the Greek philosopher, was one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy. An irascible yet formidable character, Diogenes displayed his disdain of Athenian convention by living a spartan lifestyle and …

Hot on the heels of their exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, the Chapman brothers return to enthral us with their idiosyncratic trademark comic horror, this time at the Jerwood Gallery in their hometown of …

A light box with an almost silent motor creates a movement reminiscent of sunlight dappling through a tree; a door recreated with frosted acrylic, a black ring where the handle used to be, is both …

Exploring The Surreal is the latest film in Tate’s Unlock Art Series, supported by Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts. The film, which is presented by the latest Dr Who actor, Peter Capaldi, offers a whistle-stop …

Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, will be unveiling a a major survey exhibition of painting by artist Ansel Krut. The exhibition will feature new paintings as well as work previously unseen in the UK. Krut’s painting focuses …

Flying elicits a smorgasbord of responses. Most people’s reactions tend to languish somewhere between fear and boredom; for some travellers, being buoyed thousands of feet in the air free from the constraints of place and …

      I have to admit, when I heard that the mighty Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince of the Kills were presenting Tate’s latest film series on art, I thought they would be tackling …

The opening performance by Luna Montenegro and Adrian Fisher, Rites for Gods and Dogs, Cecilia Brunson Projects, photo by Patrick Dodds     In 1471, after obtaining leave from the Pope to live in solitude …

Why are there so few good women artists? How many times have we heard that said, and often by people who claim to possess some knowledge of art? The struggle by women artists to achieve …