Art

Minimalist artist Carl Andre, accused of killing his wife, dies at 88

Andre, who was accused of killing his wife Ana Mendieta in 1985, was an early pioneer of the Minimalist art movement, reducing sculpture to its most simple form.

25/01/2024

Culture news

Marina Abramović has launched a moisturiser - or has she?

The artist who started her career experimenting with knives, fire and unconsciousness has now released a moisturising cream. We suspect something deeper is at play.

17/01/2024

Culture news

Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant wins 2023 TS Eliot prize for poetry

Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant won the coveted T.S. Eliot Prize for his second collection of poems, ‘Self-Portrait As Othello,’ which reimagines Shakespeare’s hero in a modern landscape.

16/01/2024

Art

Nigerian artist Ken Nwadiogbu on migration and working with Burna Boy

Euronews Culture sat down with Ken Nwadiogbu, a visionary artist who is preparing to showcase his solo presentation 'Journey Mercies: A Migration Symphony' at ART SG later this month.

12/01/2024

Art

Long-lost amusement park designed by Dalí and Haring reopens in LA

Dali, Haring, Basquiat... In 1987, these famous artists all created attractions for Luna Luna, an amusement park that opened in Germany for a few weeks. More than 30 years later, the park has been reassembled in Los Angeles.

29/12/2023

Creators

Mountain murals: meet the world’s most famous snow artist

Artist Simon Beck is known for his incredible snow drawings that span between 100 and 150 metres in diameter. He creates them armed only with a magnetic compass and his snowshoes.

28/12/2023

Culture news

Robert De Niro and French artist JR team up for upcoming documentary

‘The Past Goes Fast’ examines the life of Robert De Niro’s father, a talented but unknown artist who struggled with his identity and loneliness.

15/12/2023

Culture news

Poland’s new government must restore artist freedoms, NGO says

Poland’s nationalist government dismantled artistic freedoms over eight years but Donald Tusk’s coalition can and should undo the damage, according to the Artistic Freedom Initiative.

15/12/2023

Art

Jesse Darling wins Turner Prize 2023 with 'delirious' everyday objects

One of Britain's most prestigious contemporary arts awards has been won by the Berlin based artist Jesse Darling for an 'outstanding exhibition' of commonplace objects.

06/12/2023

Culture news

Euroviews. Afghanistan’s art and artists are on the brink of obliteration

We urge both UNHCR and individual governments that have ratified the 1951 Refugee Convention to acknowledge the inherent vulnerability of Afghan artists and cultural workers at risk under Taliban rule, and as such, accord them prima facie refugee recognition, Sanjay Sethi and Johanna Bankston write.

01/12/2023

Culture news

Listen: Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave’s words about ChatGPT

"We should fight it tooth and nail, for we are fighting for the very soul of the world."

23/11/2023

Culture news

Banksy’s real name revealed?

A lost BBC interview with Banksy – one of the earliest known radio interviews with him - has been unearthed. And with it, possibly the secretive artist’s identity.

21/11/2023

Culture news

Roger Kastel, the artist behind the ‘Jaws’ movie poster, dies aged 92

A great name in the history of cinema is no longer with us...

16/11/2023

Art

Ai Weiwei London exhibition 'cancelled' over Israel social media post

Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei has said his new exhibition at the Lisson Gallery in London has been cancelled after he posted comments on social media referencing the Israel Hamas war.

16/11/2023

Art

Picasso sells for €130 million and breaks 2023 art auction record

'Femme à la montre' sold for €130 million and is the second most expensive painting ever sold by Picasso.

09/11/2023

Creators

A 10 metre sculpture made of chocolate? Meet Patrick Roger

With chocoholics from around the world gathering in Paris this weekend for the annual Salon du Chocolate, we revisit the French artisan Patrick Roger to admire his incredible talent of transforming the glorious confectionery.

28/10/2023

Lifestyle

Would you get your loved one's ashes tattooed into your skin?

In a growing trend, people are finding solace by incorporating the cremated ashes of their loved ones into tattoos.

27/10/2023

The Dialogue

Khalid Albaih, or the art of fighting injustice

In partnership with Media City

Khalid Albaih is a Sudanese political cartoonist and civil rights activist. He has earned international recognition as one of the most influential political cartoonists. His fight has no frontiers and his goal has never changed: using art to make the world a better place, as he told The Dialogue.

14/10/2023

Culture news

Danish artist ordered to repay €67,000 for empty frame artworks

58-year-old Danish artist Jens Haaning has been ordered by a Danish court to repay the Kunsten Museum after he delivered blank canvasses to them in 2021.

19/09/2023

Culture news

Major retrospective of Pierre Soulages in New York opens this week

Soulages, dubbed “the painter of black,” died in October last year aged 102.

15/09/2023