"I am a self-taught artist, so in the beginning, I had no knowledge of painting techniques. I was born in Yokohama, Japan, but since 1999, I have been living in Dalian, China."

Gu Dexin is a pivotal figure in China’s contemporary art scene and a leading voice among the country’s first generation of avant-garde artists, active since the late 1980s.

Jonathan Wateridge, born in 1972, is a British artist known for his work in the Postwar and Contemporary painting scene.

For our third annual Booooooom Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners, one for each of the following categories: Portrait, Street, Colour, Nature, Fashion.

When touched, the hypersensitive makahiya plant folds its minuscule leaflets inward, protecting itself from any potential threat.

If one wanted to impress their friends at dinner with facts about the highly unique painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, I would point them to speak about two qualities that anchor his work: Light and Scale.

Fighting Temeraire by British Romantic painter J. M. W. Turner is a seascape that expresses poetic and patriotic feelings.

Most people can agree that chucking soup at old paintings isn’t doing much to heal humanity’s relationship to the planet.

The Second Ruin brings together artists Henry Glover & Miya Kosowick in a space where myth and history dissolve and reform.

At Azabudai Hills Gallery, Tokyo, the artist merges seemingly incompatible visual traditions, challenging the binary thinking that once marginalized him.

At Bozar, Brussels, the artist’s unsettling sculptures are replete with religious imagery.

Sony, in partnership with the World Photography Organisation, has revealed the winners of the 2025 Sony World Photography Awards.

This summer, London’s Hayward Gallery will play host to a major retrospective of the iconic Yoshitomo Nara.

In the turbulent Italian political season of the 1970s, the intertwining of artistic creativity and political commitment generated some of the most interesting phenomena in the country’s cultural landscape.

Each year during Earth Week I curate a collection of photographic projects from artists who are working to make the often-invisible nature of the global climate and the ecological crisis more visible using conceptual, lens-based art techniques.