NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday the name of the exhibit that will inform the theme of the 2026 Met Gala: Costume Art. The spring exhibit will “examine the centrality of the dressed body, juxtaposing objects from across the museum’s vast collection with historical and contemporary garments from the Costume Institute,”
Laska, Kira Freije’s glossy black labrador, enthusiastically greets me at the door to the artist’s east London studio. Freije, make-up free, dressed in a vintage T-shirt and jeans, appears behind. “Sorry! I hope you like dogs?” Her manner is warm, self-effacing and light, a soft counterpoint to the metal bodies and limbs strewn around her:
A field of blazing flowers bloomed in front of Durham cathedral, a net of pulsing green light arched over the market place, and the traffic control signs were warning of global warming and mass extinctions. Farewell to Arctic ice and the Queenwood shrub frog, they read, and they might have read farewell to Lumiere. For
The return of 130 gold and bronze artefacts from private collections to Ghana’s Asante Kingdom has been welcomed by heritage experts, who also warn that the move underlines the UK government’s lack of progress in allowing national museums to follow suit. The Asante items repatriated by British art historian Hermione Waterfield and South African mining
Hauser & Wirth gallery is being prosecuted in the UK for breaching Russian sanctions by allegedly making available a work by George Condo to a person connected with Russia. As first reported in The Times, Condo’s Escape from Humanity (2021) was allegedly made available to the collector, named in the Times as Alexander Popov, sometime between 14
Retired GP Margaret Borthwick has made the finals of the British Art Prize 2025 with her oil painting depicting a pond at the Calgary Art and Sculpture Trail in Mull. Margaret, from Kilbarchan, was inspired to create the painting after a family visit to Mull in September 2024. Read more: Women share powerful stories through
A POPPY installation was installed at a church in Woodcote to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The display, which has more than 570 poppies, can be seen hanging in St Leonard’s Church in South Stoke Road. Residents contributed their hand-knitted poppies of all shapes and sizes to the
Over time, street art has evolved from an underground form of rebellion to one that is now accepted in the business community. These objects, which once adorned subway tunnels and deserted buildings, are now displayed on the walls of high-end hotels and fetch millions of dollars at auction houses. The canvases have grown into profitable
The exhibition’s curator, Christine Riding thinks that Wright developed his Caravaggio-like handling of light and dark because the London art world at the time was so competitive. “He was entrepreneurial and came up with a signature style. And I don’t think anyone dared do the same because he was so good at it – it
Two projects, the North Stoneham Art Trail and one at Fleming Park, are already underway as part of the Together We Make Eastleigh town centre improvements programme. A brief to create murals celebrating Eastleigh’s identity and heritage, working with Barton Peveril college students, is also being finalised. They will be put in place at