Photographic memory is a myth – here’s what research really says about remembering
Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can remember…
Remembering Pat Steir, one of the 20th century’s late-blooming great artists – The Art Newspaper
In the early 1970s, while teaching painting at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Pat Steir found…
How the adoption of canvas in Venice changed the way artists painted – The Art Newspaper
In 14th-century Siena and 15th-century Florence, paintings were largely on walls or panels. Then, over the course of…
miriam van der lubbe on shared attention in design
Over the years, I must have written hundreds of them. Letters for people facing serious injustice and violations…
Filippo Lippi painting—once the centrepiece of Florence’s Palazzo Medici Chapel—to undergo two-year restoration – The Art Newspaper
The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums) has announced that Filippo Lippi’s 1459 painting The Adoration in…
‘I paint the kind of people I’m attracted to’: Hernan Bas on hiding from the world in Venice | Art and design
Hernan Bas has been living in Venice this year, painting tourists. He’s aware of the ironies. (He is…
Van Gogh Museum in funding mediation with Dutch government following threats of closure – The Art Newspaper
The Van Gogh Museum and the Dutch government are in mediation talks after the world-renowned museum began legal…
Twentieth Century Society calls for Farrell’s Embankment Place to be listed
In March, the AJ revealed designs by Hopkins Architects for the overhaul of the central London building, which…
‘We put our heads above the parapet’: Lubaina Himid on winning her 40-year battle to storm the Venice Biennale | Art and design
The Venice Biennale opening is just days away but Lubaina Himid isn’t in a rush. The artist, who…
The world’s greatest photography flea market returns to this small French town this June
There are camera fairs, and then there’s Bièvres. Now in its 62nd year, the Foire Internationale de la…
‘It’s really important that the public is not just a silent witness’: Marina Abramović on her Venice Biennale exhibition – The Art Newspaper
In 1997 Marina Abramović was the first woman to win the Biennale’s Golden Lion Best Artist award for…
New Grand Central Station sculpture ‘poor substitute’ for loss of heritage, Sandy Row residents group insists – The Irish News
Claims that a new sculpture at Belfast’s Grand Central Station was “community inspired” have been questioned by a…