http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/?service=Rss http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/artist-to-have-an-epileptic-fit-live-on-stage-1824122.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/artist-to-have-an-epileptic-fit-live-on-stage-1824122.html <p>A performance artist who suffers from epilepsy was facing growing criticism last night over her "dangerous" plans to induce a seizure in front of an audience live on stage. </p> News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/wife-of-wrapping-artist-christo-dies-1824649.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/wife-of-wrapping-artist-christo-dies-1824649.html ]]> <p>The artist Jeanne-Claude, who collaborated with her husband Christo in wrapping the Reichstag, erecting huge umbrellas in California and other monumental, often bizarre projects, has died.</p> News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-global-art-events-agenda-andreas-hofer-start-1824847.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-global-art-events-agenda-andreas-hofer-start-1824847.html <p>The arts agenda for the week of November 23  includes ST-ART, the second largest contemporary art fair in France will take place in Strasbourg, and the Sammlung Goetz gallery in Munich showing works by German artist Andreas Hofer.</p> News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/rare-footage-and-previously-unseen-tim-burton-artworks-to-be-shown-at-moma-1824918.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/rare-footage-and-previously-unseen-tim-burton-artworks-to-be-shown-at-moma-1824918.html <p>New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will delve into a visual feast of film and artwork when its comprehensive retrospective of famed American film director Tim Burton opens November 22.</p> News Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/prehistoric-masterpieces-the-swimmers-and-the-beast-1823637.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/prehistoric-masterpieces-the-swimmers-and-the-beast-1823637.html <p> The inhospitable plateau of Gilf Kebir in the far south-west Egyptian desert was once home to an early Egyptian civilization, who left behind spectacular cave art. </p> News Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:40:18 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/the-secret-of-mona-lisas-smile-is-revealed-in-manchester-1822256.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/the-secret-of-mona-lisas-smile-is-revealed-in-manchester-1822256.html ]]> <p> An exhibition celebrating the inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci opened at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry over the weekend. </p> News Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:14:58 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-art-websites-diy-designer-furniture-1822441.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-art-websites-diy-designer-furniture-1822441.html ]]> <p>This week's selection includes five art websites that will inspire you and show you how to create your own usable pieces of art and designer furniture.</p> News Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/shy-spanish-beauty-joins-rubens-catalogue-1820966.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/shy-spanish-beauty-joins-rubens-catalogue-1820966.html ]]> <p>She is undoubtedly Spanish and could, perhaps, be described as shy: after all, she has only been seen by a handful of people in 400 years. </p> News Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-global-art-events-agenda-paris-photo-chinas-terracotta-warriors-tim-burton-1820414.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-global-art-events-agenda-paris-photo-chinas-terracotta-warriors-tim-burton-1820414.html ]]> <p>Next week Paris warms up for an intensive display of photographic works with Paris Photo and the opening of a new branch of the Magnum Gallery. China's Terracotta Warriors will be on display in Washington, DC and MoMA will hold a special exhibition dedicated to film director Tim Burton.</p> News Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/shakespeares-macbeth-meets-africa-in-botswanas-first-opera-1818368.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/shakespeares-macbeth-meets-africa-in-botswanas-first-opera-1818368.html ]]> <p>Author Alexander McCall Smith has given Shakespeare's Macbeth an African twist blending wildlife and intrigue in Botswana's first ever opera, staged in a restored garage in the capital.</p> News Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/irans-kiarostami-tanavoli-exhibit-in-dubai-1818469.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/irans-kiarostami-tanavoli-exhibit-in-dubai-1818469.html ]]> <p>Art works of Iranian filmmaker and photographer Abbas Kiarostami as well as by sculptor Parviz Tanavoli have gone on display at a joint exhibition in Dubai.</p> News Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/un-declares-mandela-day-1819008.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/un-declares-mandela-day-1819008.html ]]> <p>The United Nations General Assembly has declared July 18 "Nelson Mandela International Day" to honor the South African leader's contributions to global peace.</p> News Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/berlin-wall-dominoes-in-hot-demand-1818196.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/berlin-wall-dominoes-in-hot-demand-1818196.html ]]> <p>German authorities reported on Tuesday strong demand for some of the more than 1,000 dominoes toppled along the route of the Berlin Wall in 20th anniversary celebrations the previous evening.</p> News Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/unveiling-the-new-warhol-1817011.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/unveiling-the-new-warhol-1817011.html ]]> <p>There have been many pretenders to the Pop art crown worn by Andy Warhol. Forget Damien Hirst or Jeff Koons. An unlikely contender has stepped forward to claim the throne. It is Tim Burton, the film director and animator whose darkly surreal vision has created modern fairy tales such as Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Beetlejuice.</p> News Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/caesar-rises-20-years-of-water-digs-on-display-1816824.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/caesar-rises-20-years-of-water-digs-on-display-1816824.html ]]> <p>In a dark space in a new exhibition at Arles museum in southern France, underwater sounds play over looped video footage of scientists on underwater digs along the Rhone riverbed.</p> News Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/the-little-prince-drops-in-on-brazil-1816985.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/the-little-prince-drops-in-on-brazil-1816985.html ]]> <p>The Little Prince, the intergalactic boy traveler part of many childhoods around the world, is visiting Brazil in a show also honoring his adventuresome creator.</p> News Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/sin-city-show-celebrates-the-paris-brothel-that-was-loved-by-cary-grant-1815759.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/sin-city-show-celebrates-the-paris-brothel-that-was-loved-by-cary-grant-1815759.html ]]> <p>It was sleaze all right, but sleaze of a refined and exclusive kind. Throughout their long heyday, the brothels of Paris were as alluring and luxuriously chic as any gentlemen's club or aristocratic salon. </p> News Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/picassos-japanese-erotic-inspiration-on-show-in-barcelona-1815988.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/picassos-japanese-erotic-inspiration-on-show-in-barcelona-1815988.html ]]> <p>The Japanese prints that inspired some of the erotic works of Pablo Picasso are the subject of a new exhibition that opened at Barcelona's Picasso Museum Thursday.</p> News Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/255-artists-to-meet-pope-to-revive-relations-1816028.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/255-artists-to-meet-pope-to-revive-relations-1816028.html ]]> <p>More than 250 artists including Ennio Morricone and Bill Viola will meet Pope Benedict XVI this month to revive the Church's relations with the art world, a Vatican official said Thursday.</p> News Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-global-art-events-agenda--kunst-zurich-lady-gaga-1816494.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-global-art-events-agenda--kunst-zurich-lady-gaga-1816494.html ]]> <p>Next week, Europeans can take advantage of the famous Salon d'Automne art fair in Paris, France, the KUNST Zurich contemporary art fair in Switzerland and a major exhibition of works by American painter David Hockney at the opening of the Nottingham Contemporary in the UK. Americans will be treated to a rare performance by Lady Gaga at the MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Los Angeles in celebration of the museum's 30th anniversary.</p> News Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/photos-by-wim-wenders-and-his-wife-on-show-in-madrid-1815187.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/photos-by-wim-wenders-and-his-wife-on-show-in-madrid-1815187.html ]]> <p>German director Wim Wenders and his wife Donata are showing more than 100 of their photographs taken over the past 14 years at an exhibition in Madrid that opened Wednesday.</p> News Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/louvres-mona-lisa-smiles-on-apple-1815636.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/louvres-mona-lisa-smiles-on-apple-1815636.html ]]> <p>Paris's Louvre museum on Thursday launched an application giving Apple iPhone and iPod touch users access to its collections.</p> News Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-art-websites-handmade-and-artinspired-christmas-gifts-1814179.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-art-websites-handmade-and-artinspired-christmas-gifts-1814179.html ]]> <p>This week's selection includes five art websites that offer hand-made art objects and unique art-inspired gift ideas for Christmas.</p> News Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/taylorwood-42-casts-leading-man-19-as-her-husband-1812257.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/taylorwood-42-casts-leading-man-19-as-her-husband-1812257.html ]]> <p>It is a rock'n'roll move befitting the woman once known as the "wild child" of the Young British Artists movement.</p> News Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/walkouts-put-art-sale-at-risk-1811700.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/walkouts-put-art-sale-at-risk-1811700.html ]]> <p>Artists and the Royal College of Art are among the victims of the postal strikes. Each year the RCA invites hundreds of world-renowned artists to design postcards, which are then mixed in with others by art students. The whole lot are then put on display and sold anonymously for £40 each. In the past, Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry and David Bailey have taken part. This year's Secret exhibition opens on 13 November.</p> News Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-art-websites-image-bookmarking-1810749.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-art-websites-image-bookmarking-1810749.html ]]> <p>This week's selection includes five art websites that feature online image bookmarking.</p> News Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/rodins-the-thinker-visits-brazil-1810090.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/rodins-the-thinker-visits-brazil-1810090.html ]]> <p>"The Thinker," the iconic sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, has a new home for the next three years: a museum in this tropical city in northeastern Brazil.</p> News Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-art-websites-image-bookmarking-1810493.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-art-websites-image-bookmarking-1810493.html ]]> <p>This week's selection includes five art websites that feature online image bookmarking.</p> News Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/american-icon-warhols-works-on-display-in-argentina-1809332.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/american-icon-warhols-works-on-display-in-argentina-1809332.html ]]> <p>With Andy Warhol exhibits currently at art museums from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Athens, Greece, a show displaying the pop artists' work is also traveling around South America.</p> News Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-global-art-events-agenda-sculpture-by-the-sea-1809633.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-global-art-events-agenda-sculpture-by-the-sea-1809633.html ]]> <p>Next week, art enthusiasts will be able to walk the along the beautiful beaches of New South Wales while looking at the contemporary sculptures that become part of the landscape during the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition in Sydney. Plus a preview of key events in the following weeks.</p> News Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/major-boulle-retrospective-to-open-in-frankfurt-1808807.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/major-boulle-retrospective-to-open-in-frankfurt-1808807.html ]]> <p>More than 150 works of André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732), Louis the XIVth's acclaimed cabinetmaker, are to be displayed in Frankfurt from October 28 in the first international retrospective dedicated to the French master craftsman.</p> News Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/london-independent-photography-celebrates-the-capitals-finest-snappers-1807957.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/london-independent-photography-celebrates-the-capitals-finest-snappers-1807957.html ]]> <p> Eye-catching images from both amateur and professional photographers alike are currently being showcased at London Independent Photography’s 21st Annual Exhibition, which opened on Monday, and runs until the 31 October. The work represents the best in show from the LIP’s membership. </p> News Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:43:51 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/the-man-who-set-sail-on-an-island-and-other-works-chosen-for-the-cultural-olympiad-1807643.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/the-man-who-set-sail-on-an-island-and-other-works-chosen-for-the-cultural-olympiad-1807643.html ]]> <p>The task for the competition was to produce a work of art so sensational that it would raise the hairs on the back of the judges' necks. So the artist, Alex Hartley, thought: "Why not tow a newly discovered island, the size of a football field, from the high Arctic to the South-west of England? And why not navigate it across Blighty's waters accompanied by a travelling embassy?" The judges loved it, and yesterday he became one of 12 artists out of 2,000 applicants to be chosen to produce his work as part of the Cultural Olympiad, marking the cultural side of the Olympics.</p> News Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-global-art-events-agenda-sculpture-by-the-sea-1808293.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/weekly-global-art-events-agenda-sculpture-by-the-sea-1808293.html ]]> <p>Next week, art enthusiasts will be able to walk the along the beautiful beaches of New South Wales while looking at the contemporary sculptures that become part of the landscape during the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition in Sydney. Plus a preview of key events in the following weeks.</p> News Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100