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Ryan Gosling plays a stunt double searching for a missing Hollywood star, while Britain’s biggest pop star offers some Glastonbury-ready bangers

Tony Cragg’s cosmic forms grace a Yorkshire manor, while the Lion of the Punjab roars back to life – all in your weekly dispatch

A Young Woman Standing at a Virginal is one of Vermeer’s most important paintings and is on display at the National Gallery in Edinburgh.

Today I visited the 53rd international art exposition at the Biennale di Venezia, which this year is titled "Fare Mondi" (making worlds). I am posting below a few pictures I took of the installations I saw there, for those of you who are not insensitive to contemporary arts. But before I do, let me add a personal note.

“Many students and staff watched in tears Friday as flames tore through the sandstone Art Nouveau building, designed by architect Charles Rennie…

The Herald is to re-examine the two fires that devastated Glasgow School of Arts Mack building in a special series as we approach the 10th…

IS TRUE FRIENDSHIP POSSIBLE in the art world? It’s a question rarely asked out loud in an industry famously riddled with self-interest, opportunism, and backstabbing. It also serves as the launching point for Isabelle Graw’s On the Benefits of Friendship, the author’s second piece of autofiction and her first since 2020’s In Another World.

The Polish artist is best known for her fashion-inspired paintings of women that playfully juxtapose Eastern Europe’s socialist history with American consumerism.

The Polish artist is best known for her fashion-inspired paintings of women that playfully juxtapose Eastern Europe’s socialist history with American consumerism.

The Recent takes us into a conceptual world of geological, evolutionary, human and environmental time, exploring what art can do to stretch the human imagination, and situate our actions and impact in a deeper, future-oriented timeframe.