Alice In Wonderland, The Wasteland and Harry Potter - all of these literary giants have featured the ancient game of chess. And while it has also ...

An exhibition which puts preserved human bodies on public display will open in a busy shopping centre on Sunday. Bodies Revealed, which caused a se...

Drugs and experimentation: neither are new in the art world. But one artist could be seen to be more dedicated to the cause than others. Bryan Lewi...

I remember we had just finished doing a charcoal study of a set of three vases, when in walked the man who would become my first art critic: Marshal Tito. Marshal Tito had recently become the head of the Communist state, so he was well known, even to us 10 year olds. To say we were shocked beyond words is an understatement!

Tattoos look amazing on skin and the detail that go into some can be mind-blowing. However one tattoo studio has taken their art to another level ...

The government has banned one Pablo Picasso's most famous and evocative paintings from leaving the country, giving British collectors and galleries a ...

An interesting article I read in the FT at the weekend made me think more about how important it is to encourage online communities to meet offline. In the article, 'Valley of God' the journalist April Dembosky investigates technology employees looking for religion in Silicon Valley. 43% of residents claim to be members of a religious institution.

After the shiny extravaganza that was London 2012 - complete with fireworks and the heaviest medals yet - it's hard to believe that the last time the ...

So we're all fairly over the Stella McCartney/Next costumery for London 2012's Team GB. But imagine if our Olympic Champions had donned furry masks, s...

Bring your eye back dear, to the keyhole, to your private peep show onto the demented and lascivious happenings at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I am La JohnJoseph, your voyeuristic narrator on this journey, and I am here to open your eyes.

While artistically Andy Warhol may not be regarded as having the technical prowess of Rembrandt, the abstract beauty of Dali or the form of Caravaggio, no other artist has managed to predict the zeitgeist of their descendants so perfectly.

Underwater croquet matches, ‘Aero cabs’ and advanced chicken breeding machines: These were the visions of the future – back in 1899. The fan...

In a huge industrial cylinder, brightly dressed people are floating towards the ceiling, feet first. Others spin around, float on carpets, and, off sc...

What do you buy the girl who has everything? A Louis Vuitton waffle maker, obviously. If only… sadly this princely kitchen gadget is a one-off, ...

BMW's Art Cars programme has been running for almost 40 years now. Every now and then the Bavarian manufacturer hands a pristine, straight-off-the-production-line, car to an artist of note and tells them to use it as their canvas.

Royal Mail is issuing a new set of stamps to mark the start of the Olympic Games, featuring four of the most popular events. The stamps, which will...

Artists are often the black sheep of their families. This can be chalked up to any number of factors, but it's usually because they refuse to devote their lives to making money like the rest of the world. The odd one out: the idealist who has high-flying dreams that exist beyond the material plane.

The Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton got a dose of culture when she visited The National Portrait Gallery on Tuesday to open the gallery's new Olym...

The pace of change means we're living in a time of extraordinary possibility for creativity in this country, where digital advances mean our ambition can only be constrained by the limits of our imagination.

Wassily Kandinsky wrote this (in 1912, have our souls awakened another 100 years since then?) It got me thinking. We use the materials available to us in any age of man to adequately represent our existence in that age, whether it be the material existence, or psychological, or expressive of the glimpse of possible futures at that moment.

The aim of the project is to re-awaken school kilns all over England, introducing a new generation of children to the possibilities (both creative and practical) of clay, and encouraging them to take these skills further forward in their education and subsequently the wider economy.

Seasoned gallery visitors know the drill... hands behind your back, face set in contemplative mode, slow footsteps a respectful distance around the ar...