Features

Tablet technology: A touch of creative genius

Alice Jones: Musicians, artists and writers are harnessing the expressive potential of Tablet technology.

Inside Features

Foreign fields that inspired our greatest landscapes

Monday, 24 October 2011

An exhibition shows how French painter Claude Lorrain's scenes of rural life influenced a generation of painters.

Portfolio: Zwelethu Mthethwa

Sunday, 23 October 2011

On a verdant patch of land outside the city of Durban, South Africa, two churchgoers pose in full festival costume. They are Zulu congregants of the Nazareth Artists Church and they are celebrating the Easter fête – one of several occasions each year when the congregation comes together to dance, sing and dress up.

Margaret Atwood on knitting a Great Auk in the Arctic

Friday, 21 October 2011

The Handmaid's Tale author is just one of 112 illustrious contributors to an exhibition about extinct birds

Ghost of Gone Birds: Celebrity art on a wing and a prayer

Friday, 21 October 2011

It's something of a leap to go from making a film about the band Gorillaz to one about birdwatching. But that's exactly what documentary maker Ceri Levy did recently with The Bird Effect. Not content with that, he found the subject of birds so interesting that he has gone on to curate an exhibition, Ghosts of Gone Birds, in London, with more than 100 artists on board producing new work.

The art books of Henri Matisse - in pictures

Thursday, 20 October 2011

An exhibition of art books by one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, Henri Matisse (1869-1954), opens at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool this weekend.

RCA print exhibition is a radical take on Shakespeare

Thursday, 20 October 2011

In 1964, the Royal College of Art gave a group of printmakers du jour the loosest of briefs: to design work based around the theme of Shakespeare, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s birth. Judging from the farrago of images they got back, pictured here, from abstract and expressionist lithographs to one ‘pop art’ image which combined a Shakespearean sonnet with clippings of the Apollo space mission, they better reflected the tastes and trends of 1964 than 1564.