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Titian at the Prado
17 August 2021Stephen Hitchins revels in the public reintroduction of Titian’s poesie series at a recent Prado show
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Brief Encounters: Art for healthcare
21 August 2020While healthcare buildings have been the focus of much-needed expansion and transformation to cope with the pandemic, the inspired and strategic use of art has a power all its own, writes Veronica Simpson
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Education: We need to talk about art
22 August 2018With arts education at school level massively depleted and deprioritised, art galleries in the UK and Europe are filling that gap with an exciting range of engagement and education activities aimed at broadening and diversifying who gets to talk about – and make – art. Veronica Simpson reports
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Brief Encounters
20 June 2018Veronica Simpson is riding on the Tube, looking at design legacies with Art on the Underground
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Bob & Roberta Smith is turning the whole town of Folkestone into an art school
26 September 2017Patrick Brill — better known as the artist Bob and Roberta Smith — is on a mission to turn the seaside town of Folkestone into an art school for all, for its fourth Art Triennial and beyond. Inspired by the parlous state of the UK’s art education system, what lessons does he hope it will provide for the wider world?
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Review: Robert Rauschenberg at Tate Modern
28 February 2017The work of Robert Rauschenberg, on show at Tate Modern, seems to have predicted almost every contemporary art movement that followed, finds Veronica Simpson.
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Performing Sculpture: Alexander Calder
2 February 2016American sculptor Alexander Calder was a radical pioneer of kinetic art, bringing movement to static objects, and for which the word ‘mobile’ was coined to describe his sculptures that moved of their own accord. As a major exhibition of his work opens at Tate Modern, running until 3 April, we feature an essay by curator Ann Coxon from the show’s accompanying catalogue
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10x10 London features FX Awards finalist
16 November 2015A finalist in the FX Awards’s Drawing category, Luke Adam Hawker, is debuting in 10x10 London to raise money for Article 25. Watch the time lapse video to see how his artwork came to life
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State of the arts: How to get a free creative education
13 October 2015Who can afford a UK arts education? As our art, design and architecture courses have become entirely bankrolled by fat fees from European and international students, resourceful educators are trying to find ways to ensure access, diversity and creativity are maintained. But it’s an uphill struggle.
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Rachel Wilberforce's Solaris features in Marina and the Diamonds music video, Dreamland
17 August 2015Margate's Dreamland hosts hit music video with Rachel Wilberforce’s Solaris installation
