It is so nice to be delighted by a thing, especially if it is a small thing. For the artist Paul Lucien Maze, those small things were colours or feelings.
“Walking into Tate Modern’s huge Tracey Emin retrospective is like walking in on her crying, naked, sobbing and snotty,” said Eddy Frankel in The Guardian. It feels as though “you
Francisco de Goya, Saturn Devouring His Son Photo via Wikimedia Commons 1. Caravaggio (1571-1610) Baroque violence and drama dominated both life and art for this 15th-century Italian artist. In his
‘At the age of 13 I realised there was a danger in beauty and innocence – I could not have both,’ wrote Tracey Emin (born 1963) in her 1999 short
Juggernaut Tracey Emin show A Second Life opens at Tate Modern at the end of February. Here are our thoughts on what may prove to be one of 2026's biggest
It feels as if you’re intruding. Walking into Tate Modern’s huge Tracey Emin retrospective is like walking in on her crying, naked, sobbing and snotty, as if you have stumbled
Lashed to the mast of his ship, Odysseus throws back his head, his beard-garlanded chin jutting towards the entrancing singers he strains to join. His men, ears plugged with wax,
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These clothes are not “secondhand”, says Yin Xiuzhen, the Beijing-born artist known for creating large-scale installations out of found garments and keepsakes. “I prefer to call them ‘used’ or ‘worn’,” she
Art-House-Life announce a number of exciting and inspiring upcoming events taking place at their studios at the Osborne Stable Block, East Cowes, over the coming weeks. As well as poetry