Art Education
This step-by-step guide explores the fundamentals of shading and light in sketching, from understanding light direction and tonal values to mastering hatching, blending, cast shadows and highlights for more convincing, three-dimensional drawings.
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The inaugural fair will bring together more than 80 galleries from 36 countries and regions, alongside new commissions, UAE-focused presentations, public sculpture and a three-day talks programme.
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The Museum of Modern Art and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art present 'Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies', the Indian artist’s first solo presentation in New York, bringing together two decades of paintings exploring history, memory and displacement.
On View
Through 135 photographs made over 15 years, Sarker Protick traces the shifting landscape of Dhaka, exploring how absence, memory and everyday details can reveal the deeper histories embedded within a changing city.
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'Significant Form' brings seven decades of South Asian art to Hong Kong, connecting modernist pioneers and contemporary artists through shared histories of migration, memory, identity and cultural exchange across generations and geographies.
Art Education
Art education can be more than learning techniques and artistic skills. By encouraging self-expression, reflection and empathy, creative classrooms can help young people develop emotional awareness while discovering new ways to communicate experiences that words cannot always capture.
Interviews
Founder Toshiyuki Inoko discusses teamLab's immersive installations in 'Second Nature', explaining why art extends beyond the screen, how AI is reshaping creativity, and why true transformation happens only through physical, shared experience.
Ellora is not a monument frozen in stone but a living conversation across faiths, centuries and disciplines. In this deeply personal dialogue, Deepanjana and Arno Klein reflect on cross-fertilisation, unfinished histories and belonging to a site that continues to astonish.
At Experimenter Kolkata, Chanakya School’s debut solo in India unfolds textile as archive, memory, and monument, foregrounding women’s labour and generational knowledge through layered embroidery, stone sculpture, and immersive installation.
In an age obsessed with novelty, art history remains essential to contemporary practice. It sharpens critical thinking, deepens artistic intent, and enables artists to engage meaningfully with the past while shaping the cultural future.
Opening Ishara House in Kochi, 'Amphibian Aesthetics' brings together twelve artists to reflect on migration, oceanic histories and ecological precarity, proposing amphibious ways of thinking and living across land, water and multispecies worlds.
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Christie’s will offer Wassily Kandinsky’s Das bunte Leben in London this October, bringing an exceptionally important early modernist painting back to market after restitution to the heirs of Hedwig Lewenstein-Weyermann following decades of museum display.
The National Pavilion of India will extend its presence across Venice this September with performances, music and poetry, bringing contemporary Indian artistic practices into the city’s public spaces and cultural institutions beyond the pavilion itself.
Justin Caguiat transforms Serpentine South into a responsive environment where paintings shift with heat and light, bronze bells sound through programmed sequences, and architecture becomes an active instrument connecting technology, ritual and memory.
Yayoi Kusama, whose dots, pumpkins, nets and infinite mirror rooms transformed contemporary art, has died aged 97. Her extraordinary career turned deeply personal visions into a globally recognised language of repetition, infinity and self-obliteration.
The Rijksmuseum has received the rare Van Eeghen Drawing Book, a remarkable collection of 17th-century drawings attributed to Dutch artist Rombout Uylenburgh. Preserved by one family for centuries, it offers new insight into a largely forgotten artist.
London Sculpture Week returns from 19 to 27 September 2026, transforming the capital into an open-air gallery with major sculpture exhibitions, public art trails, guided tours and events exploring the evolving role of sculpture in the city.
Contemporary art prices are shaped by far more than materials or labour. Scarcity, reputation, collectors, galleries, museums and institutional recognition all contribute to a complex market where cultural significance can translate into extraordinary financial value.
At Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Shreya Pate brings together seven artists to explore objects, urban landscapes and the human longing to rise, revealing unexpected connections between memory, materiality, aspiration and everyday life.
The art market is surrounded by myths about money, investment, exclusivity and artistic value. From auction prices to emerging artists, we separate fact from fiction and explore what really determines the value of art.
Long before blue paint became affordable, artists prized ultramarine above almost every other pigment. Made from rare Afghan lapis lazuli, it travelled thousands of miles and was sometimes worth more than gold, transforming the history of Western art.
Goodwood Art Foundation's Summer 2026 programme features the first major UK exhibition of Nancy Holt alongside works by Yayoi Kusama, Lee Ufan, Eva Rothschild, Polly Apfelbaum and Hélio Oiticica, transforming its Sussex landscape into a major contemporary art destination.
At Second Nature in Mumbai, Simon Heijdens’ weather-responsive Lightweeds and A.A.Murakami’s mist-filled New Spring explore transience, entropy and what happens when artists surrender control to nature.