Arts news

• Rare fan painting of Bath gives glimpse of life in Georgian England

  31-12-2017 15:51
  Holburne Museum acquires artefact showing Harrison’s Walk, with Bath’s first assembly rooms in backgroundA hand-painted fan showing a long-lost view of a Bath landmark that Jane Austen would have known has been acquired by the city’s Holburne Museum, where it will go on display for the first time.The rare fan, which had been in a private collection, shows elegantly dressed people strolling in Harrison’s Walk, a tree-lined riverside walk kept exclusive by paid subscription
  
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• 18 for ’18: the talent and trends tipped for the top in 2018

  31-12-2017 10:00
  From girls with attitude on screen to new grime debuts, from Steve McQueen’s return to Tacita Dean’s London takeover, Observer writers on what to look forward to in the coming yearSomething special is happening in UK publishing. After the success of The Good Immigrant (edited by Nikesh Shukla) and titles like Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, there has been a renewed push to rectify the problems of an industry that has too long ignore
  
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• The Arborealists: The Art of Trees 2017; Into the Woods: Trees in Photography/ Trees in Illustration – review

  31-12-2017 09:00
  Art Bermondsey Project Space; V&A, London
  Three complementary exhibitions reveal the calming qualities of trees and their rich symbolic possibilitiesThe Arborealists are a loose collective of artists who like to paint trees. They came together in 2013, though at whose behest, exactly, I’m unable to say: not only is the catalogue that accompanies their first London show one of the most confusing such documents ever written, but on the afternoon of my visit there is no information on its
  
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