Art

Simone Leigh is doing the 2022 U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Here's why she's important.

Viola Davis plays the “Mother of the Blues” in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” a jazzy, soulful and musical drama in which she and Chadwick Boseman together tackle race, art, religion and a white-dominated recording industry.The first trailer for the film shows the lush period setting of 1920s Chicago, where

Editors picks from a chat with Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova and Me Too founder Tarana Burke to Gagosian's spotlight on Rachel Whiteread.

The art world rebels have spent 35 years fighting against sexism and inequality in the art world and they have only just begun

The Monument Avenue statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, in its current graffitied state with overlaying condemnations of police violence and white supremacy, has been named the most influential

These eight individuals are working outside the bounds of traditional institutions and shaking up the status quo for the better.

The Billion Dollar Art Hunt 9pm, BBC Four Reported to be one of the largest art heists in history, in the early hours of 18 March 1990, $1bn-worth of paintings were stolen from the walls of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, including a Rembrandt and a Vermeer. Then, 29 years later, the journalist John Wilson received a tipoff that the works were about to be recovered – not in Boston, as the FBI had assumed, but in west Dublin. This...

12 multiracial people discuss the messy, complicated conversations they’re having about identity in this political moment.

Konstance Patton and Trevor Croop, who founded a collective known as the SoHo Renaissance Factory, are in Detroit this weekend to help create a mural