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Nepal’s National Paddy Day – in pictures
Nepal celebrated National Paddy Day on 29 June. On this day, known as Asar Pandhra, farmers begin the annual rice…
Last Supper painting once adorned Shakespeare’s classroom wall, new research…
New research suggests a painting of the biblical scene the Last Supper once covered a wall of a room in which…
Faces of 850 trans people to follow anticolonial rebel on fourth plinth
Casts of the faces of 850 trans people are to be arranged around the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, central…
William and Harry unveil Diana statue at Kensington Palace
The sons of Diana, Princess of Wales have unveiled a long-awaited statue of her in Kensington Palace.
In the…
Giant horses’ heads and 10-metre sculptures: massive art to see right now
One aspect of art you really cannot get at home – not by looking at it online or even in the most XXL of art books,…
Jarman award shortlist 2021 tackles and transcends the Covid pandemic
A year locked up inside has done nothing to diminish the scale and scope of this year’s Jarman award nominees,…
V&A museum’s new 20th and 21st Century gallery is refitted
In November 2019, after almost 30 years, the V&A’s 20th Century gallery closed its doors. Split across the same…
Backdrops to a riot: JR on how his confrontational street art went global
His portraits of his Paris neighbourhood summed up its residents’ anger. Now his subversive installations…
Archibald prize turns 100: love it or hate it, it reflects a changing nation
In January 1953, a group of students marched into the Art Gallery of New South Wales to protest the Archibald…
Two UK galleries to share portrait of German doctor who resisted Nazis
A portrait of a German-Jewish doctor who became active in a circle of intellectuals secretly resisting the Nazis…