Arts news

• Sally Reid obituary

  24-10-2021 20:16
  
  My wife, Sally Reid, who has died aged 73 of brain cancer, was a gifted, prolific and successful artist. She studied ceramics at Horsham School of Art (1976), ceramics and fine art at Chelsea School of Art, London (1977-79), and completed many other courses at West Dean College, West Sussex, between 1980 and 2019. At first specialising in ceramics, she was also a skilled seamstress and experimented in many other fields including multi-media embroidery. In the 1970s and 80s she sold her wares fro
  
  Read more

• Little Amal is a reminder of how vital art is | Letters

  24-10-2021 18:46
  
  Readers respond to a Guardian editorial on the peripatetic puppet – and the slow commodification of culture in EnglandYour excellent leader (The Guardian view on Little Amal: telling the unpalatable truth, 20 October) is a timely reminder of the proper value of art in an era when irony seems to have expired with the appointment of culture secretaries such as Oliver Dowden and Nadine Dorries. In England, this apparent decline in how we see our culture has been accompanied by the slow erosio
  
  Read more

• Ron Mueck: 25 Years of Sculpture; The Gaze review – size isn’t everything

  24-10-2021 14:00
  
  Thaddaeus Ropac; TJ Boulting, London
  Tiny woman beats giant skull in the inscrutably hyperreal sculptures of Ron Mueck. And Moroni’s handsome tailor inspires a look at the male gazeDead Dad – naked, ashen and piteously half-sized – looks more poignant than ever after quarter of a century. Ron Mueck’s most famous figure lies on its slab like a body in the morgue, dead and yet so lately alive. Time has deepened its pallor, and given it a new significance – this poor b
  
  Read more

• Painting is back in the frame … and the rising stars are mostly women

  24-10-2021 10:00
  
  Two decades after Damien Hirst’s pickled cow, young artists have returned to traditional pigment on canvasForget the Young British Artists. The YBAs of the late 1990s and 00s, made notorious by Damien Hirst with his pickled cow and Tracey Emin with her unmade bed, are now being supplanted by a youthful new artistic movement.It is now the Young British Painters who are grabbing the attention and the cash, with some of their work fetching more than £1m a canvas. And not only are they y
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Picasso paintings displayed at Las Vegas hotel sell for more than $100m

  24-10-2021 06:13
  
  The works collected by the Bellagio’s former owner Steve Wynn had made the hotel an unlikely destination for art loversEleven Picasso paintings and other works that helped turn Las Vegas into an unlikely destination for art have been sold at auction for more than $100m.The Sotheby’s auction was held on Saturday at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas, where the works had been on display for years, and took place two days before the 140th birthday of the Spanish artist on 25 October. Conti
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUK1 on Twitter!