UK Arts

Lucian Freud is one of the most formative artists in figurative painting. Before his death last year, he created unsettling portraits of mottled, swam...

Director Michael Glawogger has a knack for shadowing pimps and hookers through the city's armpits. The third part of his existential trilogy that began with Megacities and Workingman's Death culminates in the whorehouses of three metropolises.

LONDON — A performance artist who has staged works about the Incredible Hulk and Jabba the Hutt is among four finalists announced Tuesday for Br...

Not since a certain scene in "This is Spinal Tap" have we seen Stonehenge look so weird. Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller has created a 20-fo...

Rossellini was one of a pair of twins of the late actress Ingrid Bergman, who died in her 60's. I wondered if reaching 60 made Rossellini reevaluate her life and career.

Most often artwork made with a cardboard box is referred to as a diorama and is made by a third grader, but sometimes the humble material can yield in...

By Kiša Lala Kehinde Wiley's Benediter Brkou (The World Stage: Israel), 2011, oil and gold and silver enamel on canvas. Private Collection. © Ke...

When was the last time you saw a floppy disk in use? Nick Gentry makes gorgeous portraits from outdated technology with his social art project that tu...

Today is #WhyILoveMuseums day on Twitter, and we decided to spotlight an upcoming exhibition that shows what a museum is capable of: illuminating the ...

This year sees the Barbican Centre celebrate 30 years of contribution to the arts by crafting a spectacular season of cultural events.

Kerstin Drechsel's exhibition "If you close the door" captures the clandestine rituals that we all do when we think no one is watching. The Berlin...

By Kiša Lala Artist Not Vital in Agadez, Niger - Mekafoni. Camel, 2003 - Courtesy of the artist and Sperone Westwater Gallery New York Raised on...

Laura Lancaster brings dead or forgotten images back to life, reanimating them with paint. Yet the UK-based artist is not concerned merely with precis...

Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon, made visible the ambiguous realm between sleep and waking. The French symbolist painter blurred...

Whether they are forbidden or inaccessible, there is something inherently tempting about the unseen image. Thomas Ruff's new exhibition combines h...

Going into a photo booth undoubtably is a strange sensation. No matter how many times one has done it before, there is always frantic rush to pose tha...

Louise Bourgeois created haunting sculptural forms inspired by femininity and domesticity. But through her touch, these 'soft' subject matters morph i...

Diane Arbus's now famous black-and-white photographs made supposedly normal people look like freaks and supposed freaks look altogether normal. She sn...

Though they may be worlds apart in terms of geography, the UK and Australia share a perspective that is closer than one might think. The two locale...

Michael Raedecker gives us an unsettling look at spaces unreal and nearly forgotten. Traditional painting itself begins to unravel in Raedecker's proc...

Normally when we think of lines we think of order, structure, rigidity. Phrases like "get in line" or "stay within the lines" reinforce this notion. ...

Berlin artist Marcel Eichner creates haunting picture puzzles where distinctions between the banal and the surreal are chewed up and spit back out. Li...

Titian was exalted for his mastery of color and the luminosity of his works. His flesh glowed, his figures danced. The 16th century Venetian master fo...

When you think of an artist's tools of the trade, what comes to mind? Some paintbrushes, a canvas, a couple tubes of paint. How about... a chainsaw? ...