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From sub-cultures to cityscapes, young Tehrani artists explore the everyday realities of modern Iran in a surreal and witty new exhibition A 5ft painting of a desperately melancholic face, heavily made up with lipstick bloodily smeared across her mouth, hangs against the Daz-white backdrop of a gallery wall. The work, by Simin Keramati and part [...]

Do you want to see good leadership in Britain? Well, look to the arts, not business or politics In a recent speech, Ed Vaizey, shadow minister for the arts, extolled our cultural leadership, mentioning a number of key figures, including Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate and Nick [...]

A till receipt from a supermarket for a cluster of goods ranging from Allinson flour and Kraft Philadelphia through paper doilies to two rolls of Andrex is now on display on the walls of Tate Britain. This is not quite the original work by Ceal Floyer which the Tate acquired a decade ago for an [...]

Cold Corners is series of giant triangles visitors walk through Tate Britain’s rather grand, neoclassical central sculpture galleries have over recent years seen sprinting runners, political protest and a giant French rotary vegetable shredder. Today an arguably more conventional work for the huge space is revealed: a thin, zig-zagging metal sculpture made up of 26 [...]

Doctor Who and Life on Mars actor John Simm is to make a comeback to the West End stage later this year in Speaking in Tongues. Read the original article on the BBC

As seen at Art Basel’s Public Provocations Swiss show recently here’s something a bit different. Shok 1′s lovely black and white style previously featured on here has been scaled down to the size of a VHS box and presented as a series of ‘video nasties’ customised cases. The detail is immense and these pieces look so [...]

Ah the canvas tote bag: at first you charmed us, but now you’re really quite annoying. Ad agency TBWA\Vancouver has the answer to all that screenprinted smuggery As Dmitri Siegel pointed out over at Design Observer (in an article that was reprinted in CR) the green credentials of the canvas tote aren’t as clear cut [...]

Here’s an interesting quote from Robert Genn’s latest newsletter called “Transartistic meditation,” which is something like Transcendental Meditation. “Studies of “flow” and “the zone” have been done using all stripes of artists. This is where the artist gets into a relaxed, intuitive state somewhere deep down in the lizard brain and the good stuff rains [...]

Performance artist Bobby Baker has charmed audiences worldwide with her slant on modern life. Few suspected that she suffered acute mental health problems, which she captured over a period of 10 years in hundreds of ‘diary drawings’. As Kate Kellaway finds, she has grown stronger for the experience When I tell people I am about [...]

A century after colonial body snatchers robbed the burial grounds of the Aborigines, British-held remains are finally being repatriated. But how does it feel to find the bones of your revered ancestors in the dusty archives of a Scottish museum? When Tom Trevorrow was growing up on the banks of the River Murray in South [...]