By James Brewer A walk among the fertile wheat fields of Harran – once a Mesopotamian cultural, commercial and religious centre, now in southeast Türkiye – kindled instant inspiration for…
By James Brewer George Stubbs devoted years to producing beautiful, finely wrought paintings of champion racehorses. While doing so, the 18th century artist remarkably found time to compile a 50,000-word treatise…
Fashionality.nyc By Elena Sendona on April 21, 2026 During Milan Design Week 2026, La DoubleJ unveils a transportive installation that reshapes the language of design through scale, spirit, and sensory wonder. Titled Size Matters, the experience…
Hello my friends, I hope you are well. I would love to invite you to my upcoming solo exhibition in London, Remember What You Forgot. The exhibition includes a new video art, alongside photography and mixed…
By James Brewer Tracey Emin lives for art. Grateful for flourishing in what she calls her second life, having survived the ordeal of major surgery – surgeries – in 2020…
At this year’s Hellenic Engineers Society of Great Britain gala in London, guests were presented with a truly distinctive commemorative piece, a finely crafted rocking horse in solid cast handmade…
By James Brewer At the age of 91, Rose Wylie is the first British woman painter to have a solo exhibition at the Royal Academy – appropriately showing 90 works…
compiled by Anny Zade and John Faraclas of allaboutshipping.co.uk With just over 800 participants – a figure approaching last year’s record of 842 and representing 40-plus nationalities, this year’s 31st Annual…
by Gina Koutsika, Director, Audiences & Content, Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology, and Fellow, St Edmund Hall, Oxford. What role do audiences think that contemporary art plays in one…
By James Brewer A headland where the waters of two great seas – the North Sea and the Baltic – collide has always been a dangerous locale for navigation. Hans…
By James Brewer As a child, Mrinalini Mukherjee would describe flowers for her artist father, who had lost his eyesight. She dreamed of a career as a botanist, but she…
By James Brewer The sky… governs everything, said the great painter John Constable in response to those who criticised his constantly sketching the moods of the firmament, for to him…
by Arietta Pouliou* 83 masterpieces, 45 leading figures of modern and contemporary art, 15 artistic movements, brought together in a singular visual panorama Like a thread that begins with Monet’s…
by Gina Koutsika, director, Audiences and Content, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology A heartfelt thank you to our incredible audiences and to our dedicated teams at the Ashmolean Museum,…
By James Brewer We can thank the shipping and iron ore trades for the genesis of one of the world’s greatest collections of art in the style known as Neo-Impressionism,…
With celebratory participation and a quorum that exceeded the historic threshold of 2,392 authorized votes, HELMEPA’s 47th General Assembly successfully took place on Thursday 13 November 2025, hosted at the…
By James Brewer It is an ‘impossible’ design. True, it looks like a handkerchief, 30.5cm square, and is made from linen backed by the very utilitarian material Tetra Pak, the…
By James Brewer (Almost) all you ever wanted to know about Pablo Picasso is to behold in a new exhibition at Tate Modern. The show is billed as Theatre Picasso to celebrate…
By James Brewer A group of young Black children squat on the floor of an art gallery, gazing attentively at the paintings. They are pictured in an artwork that is…
MESMERIK LAUNCHES THIS WEEK! MESMERIK LIGHTING I am thrilled to be launching MESMERIK, a new sculptural lighting collection in collaboration with lighting designer and maker Riya Panchal. MESMERIK is a…
Good Morning Monaco Friday, September 12, 2025 Disabled student hospitalised after Sanremo assault, Monaco resident in custody Italian police are investigating a shocking assault that left a 21-year-old university student…
By James Brewer “Ah Millet! Millet! How that fellow painted humanity and the ‘something on high’, familiar and yet solemn… to think that that fellow wept as he started painting.”…
Good Morning Monaco Wednesday, September 3, 2025 Monaco launches annual vehicle registration renewal campaign Monaco has officially launched its annual campaign for vehicle registration renewal, a key step for all…
By James Brewer A silk batik crafted in 1988, an artwork without a title, hangs doubled and scroll-like from ceiling to floor, stopping visitors in their tracks at the latest Tate…
Good Morning Monaco Tuesday, August 26, 2025 Monaco gears up for Yacht Show 2025: Major port disruptions begin late August Preparations for the Monaco Yacht Show 2025 are officially underway,…