The LVMH stable, from Louis Vuitton to Chaumet, is ensuring that Paris 2024 will get a gold medal for aesthetics, as sport gets increasingly stylish ..read more

From the flyer designs to the thumping music, a 1980s rave reconstructed in virtual reality feels almost like the real thing – with one crucial missing element ..read more

Forty years after the calling of the miner’s strike, Milton Rogovin’s photographs of Scottish miners shows how much the UK’s industrial landscape has changed ..read more

At Fruitmarket Gallery, the artist takes a defunct railway built by the British in Ghana in the 1920s as his starting point ..read more

As part of its bicentenary celebrations, the National Gallery in London has sent a painting by Vermeer to Edinburgh to keep another work by the artist company ..read more

It is unsurprising, looking at the yarn-based works of Eduardo Terrazas (b. 1936), to learn that he trained as an architect, so clean and precise are his geometric designs. This is visible in the work that made his name early in his career: the logo for the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, which was influenced by a Huichol textile. Since then, he has developed an intricate technique… Source ..read more

In the early 1980s, the Greater London Council (GLC) and its leader Ken Livingstone used to hang a huge banner showing the number of London’s unemployed on the curving frontage of its Edwardian baroque home, County Hall. It faced the Palace of Westminster directly, was updated every month and infuriated Margaret Thatcher. In 1986, her Conservative government abolished the GLC… Source ..read more

Nicholas Cullinan, director of the British Museum, has appeared to support lending the Parthenon marbles to Greece. In an interview on 18 July on the BBC’s Today programme, he said, ‘I would hope a partnership of some form is possible and that is something I think we will definitely want to take forward.’ He cited the 1963 British Museum Act as the reason the sculptures cannot be returned to… Source ..read more

The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) is presenting a new site-specific installation by the award-winning artist and film-maker Wu Tsang (20 July–3 November). The artist’s works have included explorations of Moby-Dick and an installation, Anthem (2021), which involved the transgender singer and activist Beverly Glenn-Copeland performing spirituals in the rotunda of the Guggenheim… Source ..read more

Peter Kennard once said that ‘art in itself doesn’t change anything, but when it’s aligned to a political movement, it becomes its visual arm’. For more than five decades he has been using photomontage as a medium for expressing incisive political commentary on global issues from apartheid to the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine. This exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London presents… Source ..read more