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By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - Visitors to London’s Trafalgar Square over the next few years will be transported to Malawi during the colonial period with one art work and shown impressions of trans people across the world in another. Slideshow ( 4 images ) On Monday, Samson Kambalu and Teresa Margolles were announced as the Fourth Plinth’s newly commissioned artists. Kambalu impressed with a mock-up of a sculpture called “Antelope”, which he told Reuters is based on a “photograph taken in 1914 of a Malawian pan-African Baptist preacher (John Chilembwe) ... next to h...

Email is invalid Artists Baker and Borowski will take over a section of Warwick Road with an installation based on Victorian Pleasure Gardens . Part of the inaugural  Kensington + Chelsea Festival 21 June – 31 August Kensington + Chelsea Art Week (KCAW) will launch the inaugural Kensington + Chelsea Festival in West London as part of the summer-long festival season of arts experiences in venues and unusual spaces, putting culture at the heart of pandemic recovery. Starting in June, Art Week’s eleven days will once again refocus our attention on the exceptional cultural offering i...

An in-depth podcast conversation on the artist's big influences, from T.S. Eliot to Leonard Cohen

BORN into the first generation of free Malawians, the leading East African contemporary artist Samson Kambalu this week became one of six…

Curator Martin Goldberg with one of the Viking-era discoveries Photo: Neil Hanna This week: Viking-age treasures—what the medieval gold, silver, textiles and even dirt in a hoard found in 2014 in Scotland can tell us about the Viking age, its people, its art and its international networks. Ben Luke talks to the curator Martin Goldberg about the Galloway Hoard, which has just gone on view at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh (until 12 September). Paloma Vargas Weisz's Bumpman proposal for Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth © James O Jenkins...