The portrait has become a subcultural activity, a kind of folk art. Visit the National Portrait Gallery and you will encounter the outsider art of the bourgeoisie. There are contemporary pictures here ...

No, reader, this is not a centuries-old painting of a shotgun wedding. Despite appearances, the woman in green is not believed to be pregnant. Art historians, in truth, have not come to many ...

A dynamic director – and Grayson Perry – are helping to turn the fortunes of Bristol’s Arnolfini around On a midweek lunchtime approaching Christmas, more than 300 visitors are in the busy, buzzy ...

Daphne Wright’s new show “Emotional Archaeology” at Arnolfini—with works also at Tyntesfield, the National Trust’s nearby Victorian Gothic Revival house—is almost entirely drained of colour. Instead, ...

Signatories say that the Arnolfini's cancellation is "part of an alarming pattern of censorship and repression within the arts sector" Courtesy Artists for Palestine UK More than 1,000 cultural ...

As cultural institutions continue to grapple with how to respond to the Israel-Gaza war, the Arnolfini, a contemporary arts centre in Bristol, UK, is the latest institution facing criticism in an open ...

BRISTOL, England — Elias Sime’s large, multipaneled works gleam like aerial views of cities caught in the evening sun or undulate like topographical diagrams of mountains and rivers. On closer ...

An arts venue in Bristol is still suffering backlash after cancelling two Palestine film festival events in November. Two publishers have now made a pledge to no longer stock their books within the ...

A sit-in protest is set to take place on Friday at the Arnolfini following the venue's decision to axe two events that were part of the Bristol Palestine Film Festival. The Bristol cultural centre has ...

This episode - The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck. Show more Cathy FitzGerald invites you to discover new details in old ...