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Launceston, TasmaniaFrom giant inflatable swans to watching films as the smell of a urinal wafts up your nostrils, Mona’s summer festival is a heady cocktail of absurdities As my Uber pulls up in the empty car park of the Elphin Sports Centre, the driver and I both look around warily, unsure if his map has […] More
Only known painting by Dutch master while he had psychosis is ‘unmistakably’ his work After decades of doubt, a gloomy self-portrait has been authenticated as a genuine work by Vincent van Gogh and the only known work painted while he had psychosis. Self-Portrait (1889) has been in Norway’s national collection since 1910 but its authenticity […] More
From London to California, architects are helping museums provide interactive learning experiences that can’t be found on screen Last year, the Hoxton-based architecture practice AOC set up the Open Studio at the V&A Museum of Childhood in nearby Bethnal Green, east London. The 147-year-old institution was set to be renovated and initial consultation of local […] More
The delay to the London Symphony Orchestra’s planned new home is growing. And unrest in Iran could trouble a V&A show Wanted: a philanthropist to cough up about £145m towards London’s proposed Centre for Music. For that amount – about half the total cost of what will be the London Symphony Orchestra’s new home – […] More
Gardeners discovered Portrait of a Lady while clearing ivy at gallery in Piacenza A painting found hidden in an Italian gallery in December is an authentic Gustav Klimt piece stolen almost 23 years ago, experts have confirmed. The Portrait of a Lady was one of the world’s most sought-after stolen artworks before it was found […] More
At an expansive new exhibition in New York, the director’s defining science fiction opus is explored in detail with help from those who made it with him Though the calendar reads 2020 we’re still waiting for the future promised in 2001. Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film, created concurrently with Arthur C Clarke’s novel, is recognized as […] More
Sir David Attenborough says exhibition of Thames oil paintings at restored Sandycombe Lodge pays ‘proper respect’ to artist Oil paintings by JMW Turner have gone on display in the artist’s former west London home for the first time since 1826. The exhibition, at the meticulously restored Sandycombe Lodge in Twickenham, which was designed by Turner […] More
Items made from 28,000-year-old mammoth tusks among artefacts at British Museum Rare 28,000-year-old archaeological finds excavated from rapidly thawing ground in Siberia are to go on display for the first time at the British Museum as part of an exhibition on the history of the Arctic and its people. Sewing needles and jewellery made from […] More
