HISTORICAL FACTS: 7 - Caught on Camera

Ai Weiwei, Design Museum review: The master provocateur creates timeless beauty from historical objects

The exiled Chinese artist turns his industrial-scale collecting into sinister yet quietly moving, meditative works in Making Sense

The Independent UK · Apr 5, 2023

Ai Weiwei finds peace in Portugal: ‘I could throw away all my art and not feel much’

As he eases into farmhouse life, the artist is preparing for an epic design show that will feature 200,000 spouts from broken teapots and jugs. He talks about Chinese might, western jealousy – and his urge to spend

The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2023

BBC chief Tim Davie regrets month of ‘difficult conversations’

“The conversation over the last few weeks has at times been difficult,” says the BBC’s director- general Tim Davie. Understatement of the year? Davie is having a torrid month. First he went to war with Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker over political tweets. Then he inadvertently opened a…

Evening Standard · Mar 29, 2023

Exhibit: ‘Invisible’ Monet, Leon, Was Key to Impressionism

Behind some great men, there is a bigger brother. Claude Monet’s older sibling is the focus of a landmark Paris exhibit illuminating the hitherto unknown role Leon Monet played in the French impressionist painter’s life and art. Leon — a color chemist four years his senior -- is now understood…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 16, 2023

Exhibit: 'Invisible' Monet, Leon, was key to impressionism

Claude Monet’s older sibling is the focus of a landmark Paris exhibit illuminating the hitherto unknown role Leon Monet played in the French impressionist painter’s life and art

The Independent UK · Mar 16, 2023

What did Monet, Goya and Matisse have in common? Their late work was among their best

"Last Light: How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph" by Richard Lacayo; Simon & Schuster (384 pages, $35)

Los Angeles Times · Mar 1, 2023

Ready to plunge in? The rise and rise of immersive art

Thousands are flocking to hi-tech shows of work by Van Gogh, Dalí and, from next month, David Hockney, in London. What makes these exhibitions so fascinating – and popular?

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2023

Indian Haute Couture Master Dreams the 'Impossible' for Paris

As he stitches together the final threads of his latest Paris Fashion Week collection, acclaimed Indian fashion designer Rahul Mishra is taking inspiration from France -- and a fellow master from another era. "I want to achieve the impossible, I want to paint air," he told AFP, quoting the 19th-century…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 20, 2023

Monet-inspired paintings now on display

A collection of impressionist paintings inspired by French painter Claude Monet are being showcased during "Vivid Recollection Of The Past" at RCB Artery, 1st floor of River City Bangkok, Charoen Krung 24, until Jan 8.

Bangkok Post · Dec 26, 2022

The stories behind Cardiff's most historic doors you walk past every day

The city's doors, from the mundane to the ornate, have years' worth of history behind them

Wales Online · Dec 14, 2022