Art Education
Can creativity really be measured with a grade? This article explores the challenges of assessing artistic work, examining subjectivity, technical skill, feedback and the evolving role of assessment in nurturing creativity rather than limiting it.
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British Indian sculptor Bharti Kher brings four major works to the V&A South Kensington, including the unveiling of the monumental 'Gaia'. The display explores mythology, identity, transformation and belonging through sculptures placed in dialogue with the museum's historic collections.
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Marking fifteen years since his secret detention, Ai Weiwei's 'Sewing a Button' transforms his imprisonment into a 24-hour live performance at Manchester's Aviva Studios, accompanied by a major exhibition and a programme of public events.
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Spanning more than six decades, Frank Bowling: Driven to Draw at the Royal Drawing School explores the celebrated artist's lifelong engagement with drawing through sketches, paintings and archival material, while inaugurating a new annual exhibition series dedicated to drawing.
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A major retrospective at TRI Art & Culture explores seventy years of Gulammohammed Sheikh’s printmaking, revealing a remarkable parallel practice that spans little magazines, traditional printmaking techniques and pioneering experiments with digital image-making.
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Monumental new installations, mirrored sculptures and enigmatic voids transform the Hayward Gallery as Anish Kapoor presents an ambitious exhibition that challenges perception and invites audiences to look beyond the visible world.
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Visitors are invited to walk through Jesús Rafael Soto's luminous Pénétrable BBL Jaune as Serpentine launches a summer season featuring major exhibitions, family activities, technological projects and the 25th edition of its annual Pavilion.
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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A new participatory artwork by Es Devlin and Google Arts & Culture Lab invites people across the UK to contribute their own digital portraits, creating an evolving collective portrait displayed at the National Portrait Gallery until October 2026.
A major new volume marking the centenary of Claude Monet's death brings together more than 400 letters, offering rare insight into the artist's creative process, personal relationships and professional struggles through his own words.
Installation art has transformed contemporary practice by prioritizing experience, participation, and immersion. Discover why artists increasingly use large-scale environments, interactive technologies, and site-specific works to engage audiences and address the complexities of modern life.
Jack White makes his public art debut with 'These Thoughts May Disappear' at Newport Street Gallery in London. Featuring sculpture, furniture, installations, and found-object assemblages, the exhibition reveals three decades of creative exploration beyond his celebrated musical career.
An art history degree can lead far beyond museums and galleries. From luxury branding and film consulting to digital media and UX research, this article explores ten unexpected career paths where art historians are building creative, modern, and rewarding careers.
Shireen Gandhy reflects on more than three decades leading Chemould, the artists who shaped its programme, and how one of India’s most influential galleries evolved from a small Jehangir space into a globally recognised platform.
The Courtauld’s 'Hepworth in Colour' reconsiders Barbara Hepworth through her lifelong engagement with colour, bringing together painted sculptures, drawings, and rare works that reveal how deeply colour shaped the emotional and spatial language of her modernism.
Concurrent exhibitions in Washington, Cleveland and Cincinnati are bringing renewed attention to Pahari painting, the emotionally rich miniature tradition that flourished across India’s Himalayan kingdoms between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
From Renaissance workshops to contemporary art schools, the debate over whether artists are born or made has shaped art history for centuries. Examining figures from Picasso to Frida Kahlo reveals how talent, education, society and experience together shape artistic genius.
An ambitious new exhibition at Palazzo Manfrin sees Anish Kapoor transform sculpture into architecture, bringing together monumental installations, unrealised projects, pigment voids, mirrors, and immersive environments during the 61st La Biennale di Venezia.
Art education often discourages failure, yet meaningful artistic growth depends on risk, uncertainty and revision. Teaching students to fail gracefully reframes error as a critical tool, shaping more resilient, thoughtful and ambitious creative practices.
As contemporary artists move beyond medium-specific practice, photography, painting and sculpture no longer function as stable categories. Instead, artworks operate across forms, demanding new ways of seeing, interpreting and understanding visual culture today.