Arts news

• Cambridge exhibition on 1924 Olympics throws spotlight on pioneering black athlete

  17-04-2024 17:31
  
  Letter by William DeHart Hubbard, first black athlete to win an individual gold medal at tournament, is arriving in UK for first time everFor many people, the 1924 Paris Olympics will – thanks to the 1981 film Chariots of Fire – always be associated with slow-motion images of British runners beating the Americans against the odds, while Vangelis’s haunting score plays in the background.But an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, timed to coincide with the event&rs
  
  Read more

• ‘Women are not usually seen to be resting’: Danielle Mckinney’s portraits of repose

  17-04-2024 16:06
  
  The photographer turned painter specializes in images of Black female solitude, luxuriating in the importance of relaxingAs a painter, Danielle Mckinney has just one subject: Black women in moments of repose. From that singular basis she has managed to produce years of acclaimed artwork, developing an enviable style that has drawn the attention of, among others, Jay-Z and Beyoncé. Her new show at Marianne Boesky Gallery, titled Quiet Storm, offers 12 works that suggestively combine elemen
  
  Read more

• ‘We need to find whoever’s in charge and bang him some cash’: the day Inigo Philbrick and I tried to bag a Banksy

  17-04-2024 14:00
  
  An exclusive extract from Orlando Whitfield’s explosive book about the $80m art fraudster• ‘The money is not real – it’s a feckless level of wealth’ – read an interview with Orlando WhitfieldTo be a good art dealer you need to be both prescient and manipulative. The mere ability to spot a trend or an artist is not enough. You have to know how to get what you want from the situation, to buy early and hold your nerve. That I never had this instinct can be e
  
  Read more

• ‘The money is not real – it’s a feckless level of wealth’: the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history

  17-04-2024 14:00
  
  Orlando Whitfield was a student when he became best friends with Inigo Philbrick, ‘the art world’s Bernie Madoff’. He talks about how their decade of hustling would lead one to a breakdown – and the other to jail• ‘The day we tried to bag a Banksy’: read an extract from Whitfield’s explosive exposéOrlando Whitfield is a youngish man, shy, with a reddish beard. His hands are aggressively tattooed, as if they’d been laid, backs down, on w
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s seaside home – in pictures

  17-04-2024 10:00
  
  Prospect Cottage on the beach at Dungeness, Kent was a home and sanctuary for the artist and film-maker Derek Jarman. The gardens are world famous, but the interior, shielded from public view by net curtains hung by his partner, Keith Collins, after his death, has been largely unseen. This haven has been photographed by Gilbert McCarragher, and Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s House is published by Thames & Hudson Continue reading...
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUK1 on Twitter!