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Kelvin Okafor: accuracy beyond the point of art?

Kelvin Okafor: accuracy beyond the point of art?

Iona Thompson takes a look at Kelvin Okafor's hyper realist drawings...

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‘Women don’t paint very well’: gender discrimination in the art world

‘Women don’t paint very well’: gender discrimination in the art world

Frances Marsh responds to Georg Baselitz recent dismissal of female artists...

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Public art and its place in the public’s heart

Public art and its place in the public’s heart

Cressida Peever considers the recent rise in local councils selling their public art....

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Tracing the Nymph through art

Tracing the Nymph through art

Priyanka Hutschenreiter traces the artistic motif of the Nymph from ancient Greece to the 21st Century...

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The ‘Art’ of 3D printing

The ‘Art’ of 3D printing

Cressida Peever argues that 3D printing technology undermines creativity...

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Kate Middleton’s portrait: a glimpse of the future?

Kate Middleton’s portrait: a glimpse of the future?

The first official portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge has provoked uproar in the art world. Jack Humphries considers the dangers of its photo realis...

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Artists against the Ebacc

Artists against the Ebacc

Frances March argues that art is important and must remain on the curriculum...

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Palatine Centre: art and academia

Palatine Centre: art and academia

Lucy Edwardes Jones takes a tour of the Palatine Centre’s new art collection with its curator, Dr Henry Dyson....

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Welcome to ‘Empty Shop’

Welcome to ‘Empty Shop’

The quirky organisation attempting to invigorate Durham's art scene with little more than a disused building...

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Review: Bojan Fajfric at BALTIC, Gateshead

Review: Bojan Fajfric at BALTIC, Gateshead

A historical exhibition of film and installation at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art...

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