UCL Arts & Humanities is delighted to announce that renowned contemporary artist and lecturer in Fine Art, Mary Evans, will take up the post of Director of the UCL Slade School of Fine Art from 4 October 2023. She will succeed Slade Professor Kieren Reed, who has served a five-year tenure as Director since September

When Gabi Jimenez, a French Spanish Romani painter, first heard several years ago that a major museum in France was planning an exhibition on Romani culture and history, he said he thought it would be “a mess.” The story of the Roma, Jimenez said, has long been told by outsiders who depict them at best

Throughout the 20th-century the Czech art scene has battled censorship, as such, it hasn’t been given the international stage it deserved. A new wave of contemporary Czech artists are proving their worth and gaining global recognition. We profile contemporary Czech artists to know, from the controversial creations of renowned sculptor David Černý to the street

Mona Kuhn’s Kings Road and the adjacent Icons exhibition of Bastiaan Woudt and George Hoyningen-Huene, both at Jackson Fine Art through August 5, are distinctly European collisions of fantasy and reality, history and imagination. But the types of collision are very different. Kuhn moved to Los Angeles in 2005 and was transfixed by the 1922

Christie’s landmark Rothschild Masterpieces auction series — the first of its kind in North America — finished in triumphant style, totaling $62,656,516 and illustrating the continued global appeal of ‘le Goût Rothschild’ along the way. The series continues in Paris this Classics Week featuring seven sales, from 2–22 November, each containing lots from the Rothschild

A festival promoter told Delbert Anderson he didn’t present as Indigenous enough. The trumpeter and his group, DDAT, showed up to the State Fair of Texas in what he calls “the Native American section” — filled with dancers in traditional garb, among other signifiers. DDAT, for their part, donned suits.  “They immediately assumed that we had some

How to Read European Decorative Arts, the latest volume in The Met’s How to Read series, illuminates European artistry and ingenuity in decorative arts from the High Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution through forty exemplary objects. I spoke with curator and author Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide about the categorization of fine and decorative arts, the role of

An all-star extravaganza of outstanding art spanning four centuries, “Rembrandt to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the Armand Hammer Collection” is eliciting broad appeal among visitors attending the new exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. So many famous names adorn the list of artists as well as subjects in this show, a social media

Field research in ancient Rome Ramsey says she will use the funding from the scholarship to support a research residency at the CRETA ceramics centre in Rome from September 18 to October 22. “As part of my field research, I plan on taking tours of the ancient Roman sewer, the Cloaca Maxima,” she explains. “According

One of the most influential figures in European modern culture never set foot in Europe. Katsushika Hokusai, like all subjects in self-isolated Edo Japan, could not have left the archipelago if he wanted to, and his publishers could not export his prints of Kabuki actors, flowers and Mount Fuji. But a few years after his