Art News

This week, the Royal Institute of British Architects awarded Sir David Adjaye with the 2021 Royal Gold Medal, the UK's highest honor for architecture.

The White House hosts a unique and historic collection of artwork: Portraits of the men who have held the highest office in the land. Portraitist John Howard Sanden talks with Mo Rocca about the pressures and pleasures of committing the likeness of a U.S. president or first lady to canvas. Rocca also explores the long-held and bipartisan tradition of artfully preserving the occupants of the White House.

The Nile’s flooding is out of control, and Sudan is struggling to save its people and its historic sites.

Ashmolean curators decided to reexamine a neglected painting in the Ashmolean’s own storage, once thought to be an original Rembrandt, now discredited.

The ArtCurious podcast continues to be a hit, and now, Jennifer Dasal has parlayed its extraordinary success into a book of the same name, available in September.

Among the $10–15 billion dollars of property damaged were museums, galleries, libraries, and historic sites in downtown Beirut.

In the middle of Trafalgar Square in downtown London, the National Gallery sits, with a main collection on display that is owned by the British people. Thus, entry to the main collection is free.  As of 2019, the National Gallery was the seventh-most visited museum in the world. Here are ten interesting facts to take you inside history of the illustrious museum and its collection.

Artist Sacha Jafri isn’t afraid of a good challenge, and the British artist has taken on a big one: to raise $30 million dollars for charity by creating the world’s largest painting on canvas.

For archeologists working at Oxburgh Hall, a fifteenth-century manor in Norfolk, England, lockdown has given them the opportunity to delve a little deeper into their work.

The family of Lilly Cassirer, the painting’s owner prior to World War II, has sought to reclaim Camille Pissarro’s Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain (1897) from Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection since 2000.