From the slums of Kenya to the Paris banlieues, the guerilla photographer JR aims to put a human face to the most impoverished areas of the world. Just don’t ask him who he is
The Parisian photographer JR is a man routinely touted as the hippest street artist since Banksy. His …

From the Troubles to Iraq, from Thatcher to Blair, no one can reinvent a contemporary news image like pop art veteran Richard Hamilton
Mordechai Vanunu is disappearing through the Jerusalem streets in the back of a police van. He is on trial for exposing Israel’s covert nuclear arsenal to the west. …

National Gallery, London WC2
Don’t look! It is a sight too cruel to take: the teenage queen, blindfold, in her petticoat, bravely groping for the block on which to lay her young neck. Behind her, one maidservant swoons while the other turns away. Even the executioner averts his gaze. Our eyes …

There are now so many companies selling photos on canvas online these days that it’s hard to know which direction to turn in.
To help you we have put together this brief buyers guide.
1) Choose a photo on canvas specialist
Ask yourself, is this is a company that specialises in printing photos on …

Art techniques for painting in watercolor, whether on canvas or on paper:
Unlike other mediums then, decisions at the start of the painting must be done where the whites are placed and apply the lightest of shades first. Common practices of watercolorists are to leave the white areas for later.
To paint …

A review of the artist Veronikah and her upcoming art gallery exhibition:
Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature English artist, VéroniKaH, in Portals of Perception.  The exhibition is scheduled to run from March 23, 2010 through April 13, 2010 (opening reception: Thursday, March 25, 2010).
While a range of subjects appear in VéroniKaH’s …

Nude art has always been an important mainstay of many of the great artists, and lots of talented emerging artists and contemporary artists today follow in their footsteps, creating inspiring and artistic renditions of nude art, artistic impressions of both the female and the male nude form. Human beauty is …

Jenny Holzer, Gateshead
The most extensive Holzer show ever in the UK presents a selection from the last two decades of text artworks in the form of LED installations, billboards, T-shirts, condom wrappers and paintings. Holzer infiltrates the mass media sloganeering signage of our city streets with pithy truisms, knowing cliches …

Jenny Holzer holds her biggest-ever UK show in Gateshead, while Alex Katz’s mysterious, minimal portraits are unveiled in London

Building on the long tradition of Polish-language versions of Hollywood posters, these posters from Warsaw-based studio Homework are deadpan masterpieces.