An architectural project hailed by an expert design judge as “major turning point” in the history of American race-relations has scooped top prize at this year’s Beazley Designs of the Year for 2017. Continue reading →

Think you might resemble Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’? Or perhaps you and Van Gogh were separated at birth? Google is offering you the chance to see which famous portrait you look like with its Arts and Culture app. Continue reading →

Five drawings produced by one of Britain’s most notorious prisoners will not go under the hammer after they were withdrawn from auction at the eleventh hour. Continue reading →

Plans to unveil a new artistic installation in a Toronto subway have been halted following concerns that it will be misused as a platform for hate speech. Continue reading →

She has been described as second only to Caravaggio among 17th century Italian artists, and now Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1652) has smashed her own record at auction. Continue reading →

An art historian has proved there is more than one way to research a missing painting after he found a lost Monet via a Google search.
Continue reading →

Fears that the Met’s specialist art crime squad would be disbanded forever have been allayed following the announcement that the unit has reformed. Continue reading →