Art & Culture

We bring you news and inspiration from the world of visual arts and culture, including exhibitions, festivals, events and series.

Jonjo is fascinated with how other artists work, so let's hear about his approach

Jonjo Elliott on forging a career as an artist, the importance of colour, and how to exhibit in galleries

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27 September 2022

A Netflix Original Series. Squid Game Artwork © 2021 Netflix. All Rights Reserved

V&A opens the first major exhibition dedicated to South Korean pop culture

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26 September 2022

Guide to Iceland is the new gold standard for travel websites

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26 September 2022

Ben Frost, on the opening night of his new show. Photography by Presley Ann

Ben Frost subverts the iconography of mainstream media in new show, Friends in High Places

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26 September 2022

A simple colour scheme lets the work speak for itself

Universal Favourite reframes the art world with normality-free rebrand for The Other Art Fair

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22 September 2022

Osaksi Maisemaa

Sami Havia's surreal paintings capture alienation and the dying light of the summer months

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21 September 2022

Things Happen is the first time Imon has had a solo show at Mosey London

Imon Boy collapses the boundaries between graffiti and fine art in new solo exhibition

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15 September 2022

Kristen Liu-Wong at work in her studio

Kristen Liu-Wong combines nightmares and crude humour in her vibrant, sinister paintings

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14 September 2022

Sin Wai Kin opens Channel with a specially commissioned piece

Somerset House launches new online space for art, ideas and the creative process

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14 September 2022

Messy Desk's daydreams come to life in explosively colourful solo exhibition

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8 September 2022

Sir Denis Mahon Award-winner Jack McGarrity arrives with stunning solo exhibition

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8 September 2022

Ai Weiwei at the Design Museum, September 2022. © Rick Pushinsky for the Design Museum

Ai Weiwei exhibition headlines the Design Museum's 2023 programme

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7 September 2022

Front Yard with Crepe Myrtle, 2022. Image courtesy the artist, Library Street Collective, Detroit; and albertz benda, New York and Los Angeles. Photo by Thomas Dubrock

Natalie Wadlington's wide-eyed charming characters paint a picture of our love of pets

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7 September 2022

Study of Jaden, 2022 © Wole Lagunju

Artist Wole Lagunju's first solo show explores issues of power, gender and identity

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7 September 2022

Farewell, 2022 © Yuri Yuan. Courtesy of the artist; Make Room, Los Angeles, CA; and Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY

Yuri Yuan's Dark Dreams straddles the border between waking and sleep, life and death

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6 September 2022

Women on Train, 1981. All photographs © Martha Cooper, from Spray Nation: 1980s NYC Graffiti Photographs by Martha Cooper, Edited by Roger Gastman © Prestel Verlag, Munich · London · New York, 2022

New book Spray Nation shares unseen photos of New York's pioneering graffiti artists

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6 September 2022

Kerry Stewart, The Boy From The Chemist Is Here To See You, 1993. © Kerry Stewart. Courtesy of the artist

Somerset House art show revisits the last 50 years through the prism of horror

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2 September 2022

Le Mot Juste, 2022 © Lucile Gauvain

Coloured pencil drawings celebrate the 'mundane yet magic' aspects of the creative process

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Mr Hurst © Sebastian Chaumeton

Paintings that imagine famous artists as Mr Men or Little Miss characters in their own style

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Photography by [Tim Jobling](www.timjobling.co.uk)

New mural by Hanna Benihoud celebrates what makes people happy living in Edmonton

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Photography by Nick Scott

Strata: Upcoming solo exhibition delves into the colourful work of painter Nick Grindrod

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Image licensed via Adobe Stock

The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

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© Danzhu Hu

Visual artist Danzhu Hu crafts a surreal and melancholic world where trauma can be reimagined

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A Bridge with a View: an honest and unfiltered tribute to London's Tower Bridge

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