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How to create the blackest black ever known – from nature to nanotechnology

Achieving the blackest of blacks has been one of humanity’s enduring challenges. It is a frontier that unites modern nanotechnologists with nature’s ancient colour palette.

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The best things to do in London this summer

From midnight theatre under the stars to parks popping with music and laughter, the Standard team has your fun in the sun covered

Evening Standard

Anish Kapoor review – this gutsy, gore-splattered show is a divine bloodbath

Butcher bags, human sacrifice and cavernous black holes … in a world of dry art this stunning exhibition forces us to confront religion and mortality

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‘I have a naughty schoolboy attitude’: Anish Kapoor reveals his latest epic creations

As he opens a career-spanning show in London, the Turner prize-winning artist gives us a private view of his giant studio and talks controversy censorship and why disobedience is central to making great art

The Guardian - UK

Kapoor’s sublime spectacle, Hepworth’s sculpture sings and Hockney passes away – the week in art

Anish Kapoor gets a blockbuster showing, Barbara Hepworth’s pioneering use of colour is showcased and we look back at our beloved David Hockney – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Anish Kapoor says US’s ‘politics of hate’ should exclude it from Venice Biennale

Artist commends jury for resigning over inclusion of Russia and Israel but says reasoning should have also included US

The Guardian - UK

The new culture wars (no, not those ones): leading London creatives demand change to save the future of art

As the Southbank Centre hits 75, London’s leading creatives call for cultural change to nurture the young stars of the future

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Harry Styles, Danny Boyle and the Southbank Centre's new 'tonic for the nation'

Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre Mark Ball talks us through their 75th anniversary year which aims to bring hope and togetherness in tough times

Evening Standard

ArcelorMittal Orbit designer Anish Kapoor plans to send sculpture the size of a house into space

The sculptor said the project will be a protest against Elon Musk’s commercialisation of space

Evening Standard

The 12 London exhibitions you have to see in 2026

Lucien Freud, Tracey Emin, Marilyn Monroe, Anish Kapoor, Frida Kahlo, Es Devlin and Kate Moss are making it a star-filled year in art

Evening Standard

Artists decry dismantling of Belgium’s oldest contemporary art museum

Cost-saving plan to transfer Antwerp museum’s entire collection to another city described as ‘simply insane’

The Guardian - UK

Bawdy Beryl, slick Seurat, titanic Tracey and the glory of Gaudí: the best art shows and architecture in 2026

Must-sees include Beryl Cook’s postwar brilliance, Tracey Emin’s new highs, Frida Kahlo’s confessions, plus Google’s HQ and Gaudí’s finally finished fever dream

The Guardian - UK

Maggi meets Sarah, Anish Kapoor takes on Ice and Suffolk seduces Spencer – the week in art

Hambling and Lucas join forces, Roger Fry gets a rare show and an aerial daredevil captures stormy Scotland

The Guardian - UK

Artist who created Chicago’s ‘Bean’ sculpture laments his work being used in CBP photos: ‘I find it utterly horrific’

Anish Kapoor called the decision to pose outside of his iconic sculpture a ‘self-congratulatory photo-op’

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‘This is fascist America’: Anish Kapoor may sue after border agents pose by his sculpture

Artist says ‘military style’ raids in US are ‘beyond belief’ while discussing new Southbank show next year

Evening Standard

Danny Boyle turns Southbank Centre into a playground for its 75th birthday

London’s cultural landmark goes full technicolour... and everyone is invited to the party

Evening Standard

Danny Boyle to curate celebration of youth culture at Southbank Centre

Goalhanger, the podcast production company co-founded by Gary Lineker, will record live editions at the site during the arts venue’s 2026 season.

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People are still saying there's a man trapped inside the Chicago bean

The perfect art conspiracy theory won't go away.

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Climate activists spill 1,000 litres of fake blood over North Sea oil rig

Greenpeace activists scaled a Shell fossil fuel rig and unfurled a massive 96 square metre canvas across its side, drenching it in a crimson liquid on Wednesday, August 13.

Euronews

Greenpeace activists deploy huge Anish Kapoor artwork 'BUTCHERED' on North Sea gas platform

Anish Kapoor's 'BUTCHERED' is an original artwork created specifically for Greenpeace's protest action. It is believed to be the first fine art piece to be installed on an active fossil fuel platform.

The Guardian - UK

Huge ‘Butchered’ artwork installed on North Sea gas rig by Greenpeace activists

Anish Kapoor work referring to ‘butchering of our environment’ believed to be first fine artwork exhibited from a working gas extraction platform

The Independent UK

Greenpeace installs Anish Kapoor artwork on Shell platform in North Sea

The piece, titled BUTCHERED, was conceived specially for the protest on the Skiff platform, 45 nautical miles off the Norfolk coast.

Evening Standard

Jenny Eclair backs £3.8m fundraiser to ‘save Hepworth artwork for the nation’

A museum and national charity wants to raise enough money to secure it for permanent public display in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

The Guardian - UK

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Call in Anish Kapoor for an HS2 monument

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