Ricky Swallow miraculously makes wood look like crumpled paper or scales on a fish, just as he makes plaster look like a backpack.

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We're in the season of the new. As the Turner Prize exhibition opens, and Regent's Park squirrels quake at the imminent arrival of the Frieze art fair, it seems that art's rage for revolution is as passionate as it was 100 years ago when Picasso was dismantling reality.

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If you live in the Southeast and love visual art, a trip to Atlanta may be well worthwhile. The High Museum of Art has had some excellent programming in the past several years. It is also a wonderful facility.

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Just as Monroe understood that you don't have to act for the camera in the way the stage-trained Olivier defined acting, so Warhol realized that you don't need to make art for an audience brought up on film and television in the way Kenneth Clark defined art.

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Francis Bacon is an artist for our time. You may love or hate his work, which is still vigorously polarizing after all these years. But more than that of any other artist who emerged at the end of World War II, his work tells us about the strengths and weaknesses of the...

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A colletion of priceless and culturally sensitive Aboriginal paintings that has languished unseen in vaults for almost 40 years will soon be exhibited in the Northern Territory.

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Critics of the Turner prize are used to harrumphing crossly about the absence of painting or drawing from the award's shortlist and condemning a perceived preponderance of video or film work.

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Having invested in the popular Apple device only four months ago, Hockney is hooked and has even invested in a mini wooden easel to sit his phone on. He has painted everything from flowers to landscapes.

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From the hapless, lost hitchhiker to the grotesque carnival clown, Cindy Sherman has photographed herself playing a host of characters.

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HAVANA—Cuba's 10th Havana Biennial is an overwhelming, scattered affair. For starters, like the past several editions, it's not a biennial at all, but rather a triennial, though no one has bothered to update the name.

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Modeled on the protests and celebrations that erupt on the National Mall, Jean Shin's latest installation — a roiling, shoulder-to-shoulder crowd in miniature — will carpet a 45-foot-long rectangular space at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington beginning May 1.

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Twenty-first century technology is enabling visitors to Hampton Court to view one of Henry VIII's tapestries in its "dazzling" original colours. Scientists have managed to "virtually restore" the faded hues of his 28ft long tapestry using coloured light beams.

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If a Martian came to earth and tried to understand what human beings do from just reading most literature published today, he would come away with the extraordinary impression that what we mostly spend our time doing is falling in love and, occasionally, murdering one another.

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They were the symbols of unimaginable horror: twisted car bodies, burnt children's toys, memories melted beyond recognition. Seven weeks after the February 7 bushfires, the debris of the worst natural disaster in Australian history is already deemed worthy of artistic display.

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The 16th century master used modern darkroom techniques to create his masterpieces, more than 200 years before the invention of the camera.

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Known as 'Light Graffiti', these images look like they are showing illuminated neon sculptures, when in fact they are 'drawn' on to a night sky with only a torch.

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Banksy and other urban artists have fun infiltrating their work into museums, as when Banksy put a modern "cave painting" into the British Museum and Cartrain put Damien Hirst's "portrait" in the National Portrait Gallery.

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So far six audience members have stormed out midperformance of the Broadway show "You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W Bush," the comedian Will Ferrell's lampooning of the 43rd president, according to those keeping count at the Cort Theater.

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Human Emotion Project documented visually by international artists using film or video, for the first physical screening in Melbourne Australia and launch of HEP.

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CHICAGO, IL.- Indie pop darlings Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, now recording as Dean & Britta, bring their languid lyrics and hypnotic harmonies to Andy Warhol's Screen Tests, rarely seen silent film portraits of celebrities from the 1960s New York art scene, including Edie S …

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The 40th edition of Art Basel takes place in the museum-rich city of Basel, Switzerland from June 10 through June 14, 2009.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Lurid figures of Iranian prostitutes and images of semi-naked men posing provocatively are among works at a new London exhibition of Middle Eastern art that may test the tolerance of some.

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The BBC is to put every one of the 200,000 oil paintings in public ownership in the UK on the internet as well as opening up the Arts Council's vast film archive online as part of a range of initiatives that it has pledged will give it a "deeper commitment to arts and music".

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Brazil teems with jungles, forests and all sorts of exotic plants, flowers and trees.

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