Cartoonist Charlie Mackesy: ‘Don’t give up, the storm ends’
Cartoonist Charlie Mackesy dedicated his drawings to the people on the front line tackling Covid-19....
Nottingham street dancer: ‘Why I dance in front of strangers’
Jamal Sterrett performs a style known as bruk up....
Artists paint New York shops boarded up after looting to raise hope
Boarded-up shops, a depressing sight for New Yorkers after looters infiltrated anti-racism marches in the city’s trendiest neighborhoods, are being transformed into canvases of hope...
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay aims to hold police accountable through art
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is urging writers, dancers, poets and other artists to help make the names of abusive police officers as well known as their...
Grief over virus deaths sets Hungarian artist on darker course
Hungarian artist Jozsef Szurcsik lost four of his friends in a matter of weeks to COVID-19 and the tremendous pain and grief he feels has...
Ukrainian lawmaker says he has Gutenberg Bible fragment in his private collection
A wealthy Ukrainian politician has made public a manuscript in his private collection that he says is a fragment of the Gutenberg Bible, the world’s...
Van Gogh-Gauguin letter describing brothel visits sells for 210,000 euros
A letter written by Vincent van Gogh and fellow artist Paul Gauguin describing visits to brothels and discussing the future of art has been sold...
May flowers: Where the U.S. retail blooms are and are not
No denying May’s $73 billion rebound in U.S. retail sales was an eye-popper and is the latest fodder to fuel the red-hot “V” vs “U”...
Anti-racism protest signs, murals destined for U.S. Smithsonian
Days into nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd, demonstrators began to fill a tall fence in front of the White House with posters,...
Artists around the world pay tribute to George Floyd
Protests against racism triggered by the death of African American George Floyd have inspired art around the world, from murals in Syria and Pakistan to...
