visual-arts

An exhibition in Florence that pairs his giant canvases with Renaissance religious art brought me to the edge of tears. It is the perfect refuge from the infinite scroll As an unbaptised agnostic raised with no religion, the closest I ever really come to a spiritual experience is when I’m standing in front of an artwork. Last week I went to Florence to do exactly that, drawn there not by Michelan…

Food is more than something we eat. It carries memories, traditions, comfort, and connection. This week’s Heart List celebrates five artists who use food as their subject, transforming ordinary meals, seafood spreads, fried eggs, and ice cream cakes into captivating works of art filled with color, storytelling, and emotion. The post 5 food paintings we’re savouring on our Heart List this week app…

Most wall art relies on paint, canvas, wood, metal, or photography. These pieces take a completely different approach. Artists used sharpened pencils, sewing buttons, bubble wrap, newspaper, paint tubes, coins, bullet casings, screws, and even nails to create works that look nothing like the materials behind them. Some resemble paintings, others look like photographs, portraits,... The post You W…

The artist on his need for order, an embarrassing Christmas costume, and the people he hopes to meet in heaven Born in British Guiana (now Guyana), Frank Bowling, 92, moved to the UK aged 19 and did national service in the RAF. In 1962, he graduated from the Royal College of Art with the silver medal for painting. He moved to New York in 1966, where he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, and exh…

The latest in the art world brings together major museum developments, record-setting market activity, public art initiatives, and… The post The Latest in the Art World: From Art Basel 2026 to London’s Frida Kahlo Celebration appeared first on Arts To Hearts Project .

For Debbie Moylan, animals have never been just subjects to paint. They have been companions, teachers, and quiet sources of understanding throughout her life. Through soft light, gentle colour palettes, and symbolic golden threads, her paintings explore those deeply personal moments of connection that can exist between humans and animals moments that often feel impossible to explain but are inst…

Harriet Gibson recalls an eye-opening encounter with the artist, while Andrew Keeley talks about the influence of California on his work, and Christine Hayes recalls his ‘letter’ to the Guardian about smoking In 1963, I was a naive 17-year-old on a week’s introduction to “art” at the Royal Court theatre with a group of about 10 sixth formers. We had an acting workshop with John Dexter, went to a …

Recent Van Gogh show was National Gallery’s most popular ever and British Museum gears up for arrival of Bayeux Tapestry When Tate Modern announced a major exhibition devoted to Frida Kahlo, few doubted it would be popular. The Mexican artist has become one of the most recognisable cultural figures in the world, with her image adorning everything from tote bags to T-shirts. But even Tate was unpr…

Rue Saint-Paul is one of the main shopping streets in Liège. In the middle of the street, a shop window stands out from all the others: it displays only contemporary works of art, which change regularly. The window and the works belong to the Uhoda Collection, the largest private collection of contemporary art in the city. The Uhoda Collection was founded in the 1970s by the brothers Stephan and …

Tate Modern celebrates everything Kahlo, the British Museum marks John Constable’s 250th birthday, while Claydon prepares for an invasion – all in your weekly dispatch Frida: The Making of an Icon The great surrealist and self-explorer Frida Kahlo gets a show that emphasises her influence and posthumous fame. • Tate Modern, London , 25 June to 3 January Continue reading...

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I went to check out the César Chávez murals on the Eastside avenue that bears his name.

The Inamori Foundation today announced experimental multimedia artist and musician Laurie Anderson to receive the 2026 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy.

Born in Poland and based in Florence, Ania Tomicka creates oil paintings that inhabit the space between reality, memory, and imagination. Her faceless figures become vessels for questions of identity, carrying emotions, uncertainties, and transformations that feel both deeply personal and universally human. Entirely self-taught, Ania has developed a practice that pairs technical precision with ps…

BackgroundAdolescence is a critical developmental period for cultural learning and the formation of aesthetic preferences. As adolescents increasingly encounter visual art from diverse cultural traditions through educational and digital contexts, understanding how cultural background, experiential factors, and individual psychological traits jointly shape cross-cultural aesthetic preferences is e…

Every June, the art world turns its attention to Switzerland. While Art Basel remains the week’s headline event,… The post 8 Zürich Art Weekend Exhibitions Worth Seeing During Art Basel Week appeared first on Arts To Hearts Project .

Stephanie Shih staged a rainbow of plants, flowers, fruits and a single real butterfly within the gallery itself and documented them over the course of two weeks late last year.

Each year, the LMB atrium hosts the Arts and Crafts Show, inviting colleagues to display their creative and imaginative projects. From sketches, painting and photography, to crochet, jewellery making and ceramics, a wide array of talents are displayed. The 2026 show was once again organised by HR Advisor Ashling Munday, supported by members of the […]

The artist has her most significant retrospective to date in a new exhibition that encourages attenders to take part For 50 years, the American artist Maren Hassinger has created fascinating site-specific sculptures out of the simplest of actions: tying a square knot, twisting metal into organic shapes, blowing breath into a plastic bag, walking through a room. With Maren Hassinger: Living Moving…

The artist takes visitors to the Hayward Gallery on a ‘metaphysical rollercoaster ride’

Helen Cammock says her comments blaming wartime leader for Bengal famine were intended to create ‘dialogue’ A Turner prize-winning artist accused of telling a “barefaced lie” about Winston Churchill in a video piece installed at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) has defended her work, saying it was intended to create a “dialogue” about figures in the gallery’s collection. Helen Cammock ’s 40-mi…