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As part of a new campaign, David Hockney is encouraging the nation to get drawing

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The artist's Draw! project is part of the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture

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Italian Renaissance drawings show at Buckingham Palace includes Titian study never seen in Britain

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Works by Raphael and Leonardo will also be featured in the London exhibition, which aims to reconsider artists of the period as draughtsmen, in addition to painters or sculptors

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Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

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© Jean Tinguely, DACS 2025, Photo: Ken Adlard, Courtesy of the artists and Hauser & Wirth Since it opened in 2014, Hauser & Wirth Somerset has brought contemporary art, burrata and around 110,000 visitors a year to the small town of Bruton in southwest England. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2025. Education is a key component.

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Another object has been stolen from the British Museum—but this time by an artist

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Ilê Sartuzi's short-lived heist involving a 17th-century coin draws parallels to the recent scandal over the theft of thousands of items from the museum's collection

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Why artificial intelligence artists can be seen as ‘builders’, ‘breakers’—or both at once

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With AI art in 2025, the picture is complex Peter Bauman 11 July 2025 Share “I view technology not just as a tool but as a collaborator”: Sougwen Chung’s Spectral (left) was created with a robot Courtesy of the artist How do artists build in broken times? In this context, artists could be seen as builders and breakers.

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Alleging pre-emptive censorship, artist ‘hijacks’ website of Norwegian gallery showing his work

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The Icelandic artist Odee is embroiled in a legal dispute with a fishing company for drawing attention to a high-profile corruption scandal in his previous work

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A new volume explores the intimate art of drawing, as seen through a wider lens

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This alternative history navigates the medium through artists on the margins, as well as established practitioners

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