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Digital art is a billion-dollar business, with everyone from Paris Hilton to Damien Hirst trading in ‘non-fungible tokens’. But are NFTs just a get-rich-quick scheme masquerading as culture?

A brand new, specially-commissioned artwork by Andrew Mackenzie has now joined pieces by Antony Gormley, Eduardo Paolozzi, William Turnbull and David

New Delhi: The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art is restarting the Art x Food series on June 6, 2021, after a pause in light of the second wave that profoundly affected many people in our city and our country. With this episode, we continue the quest to expl

© Supplied by Tatha Gallery, Newport Art college graduates exhibiting at Tatha Gallery in Newport have not allowed their creative talents to be curtailed by the pandemic. Having had their final year of study cut short – as well as missing out on the rite of passage that is a degree show – these 12 artists demonstrate that creativity can continue to flourish even in the most trying of times. Tatha owner and director Lindsay Bennett says the gallery decided to branch out for its first exhibi...

Updated: March 2, 2021, 7:41 pm © Supplied by Robbie Bushe Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up During a childhood spent in rural Aberdeenshire and raised by parents invested in the arts, Robbie Bushe dreamt of becoming a comic book illustrator. Now almost four decades later, the established and award-winning artist is in ...

During a childhood spent in rural Aberdeenshire and raised by parents invested in the arts, Robbie Bushe dreamt of becoming a comic book illustrator.

The term “art critic” implies a negativity which by and large doesn’t exist in the writers who sally forth into the art world to create vivid pen portraits of the art they see and the artists they meet. Art critics tend to be art lovers. Not fighters. So it was with the late W Gordon Smith. Smith wrote about art for the likes of Visual Arts Scotland and Scotland on Sunday in an accessible and upbeat fashion from 1980 until his death in 1996. But writing was just one of the many string...

Christian art retreat planned for Keswick A creative retreat for Christian artists is planned for Keswick in April. The three-day Art Retreat is being organised by Keswick Ministries with Morphē Arts, a mentoring charity for Christians in the creative arts. The retreat is for artists who work in the visual arts, but all are welcome. It gives artists an opportunity to take time out from the pressures of life to meet together for a creative weekend. Alastair Gordon, founding director of Morph...

Wick artists painting like a LSD trip By David G Scott Published: 07:37, 17 January 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the days newspaper A painting featuring in a new online show by an artist from Wick was lauded by a scientist who had worked in psychedelic therapy in the 1950s. Professor Ian Charles Scott, who now lives in New York, has work in the show hosted by Edinburghs prestigious Open Eye Gallery – an online-only e...