Astonishing Things, the RA show's title comes from a comment Vincent van Gogh made on seeing Victor Hugo's drawings.

One of the most exciting aspects of the show, put together with love and care, is the coming alive of the ‘kasturi’ of musk deer, which has often featured on his canvases, spreading fragrance in delig ...

That period culminated in “Birmingham 1964”, a work Whitten accurately described as a “wound”. Through a hole gouged out of ...

Also: the audacious Andy Kaufman; Richard Learoyd’s haunting new photography; and the Wooster Group gets wistful.

Buyers report their budgets are up as they snap up new takes on ‘80s office dressing, with big shoulders and opulent outerwear.

Artlyst has selected ten exhibitions that will take place out of London this Spring, 2025.  Stephen Cox at Houghton Hall ...

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skulls, taxidermy specimens and assorted oddities. Art gets a designated space in the first-floor gallery but, unsurprisingly, shows tend towards the eerily surreal. Its ground floor is home to a ...

More surreal promotional antics (such as appearing on ESPN’s College GameDay and Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast, or surprising fans with a performance-art-style Instagram livestream ...

Half documentary, half surreal, Smith’s 1976 New York picture ... a plastic dome replacing his broken skull, and his childhood sweetheart Renee Kline. The bride appears grief-stricken, the ...

Local archaeologist Julio Asencio with one of the skulls.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer ... as complex as any in the ancient world, and an art tradition that was as bizarre as it was beautiful.

A captivating show celebrating the institution’s bicentennial highlights the creativity of the borough, outlines the history ...