Sikelela Owen has clinched the 2025 Charles Wollaston Award at the Royal Academy for her oil painting Knitting. The £35,000 prize goes to the most distinguished work in the show, selected from more than 1,700 entries.
Gomma is thrilled to officially announce the winners of the 2025 Gomma Black & White Awards — a celebration of timeless photography, bold vision, and emotional depth.
There is a moment in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass when the Unicorn says to Alice: “Well, now that we have seen each other…if you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.”
The Club (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025) brings to life a glamorous world filled with creativity, friendship, and transformation, where women challenged Paris’s artistic borders and forged their own paths.
Julie Béna’s solo exhibition Night Has Broken Refinement at Longtermhandstand opens a liminal space, between the personal and the performative, the poetic and the political, the real and the imagined.
Between 450 B.C.E. and 950 C.E., a particularly fertile soil known by researchers as terra preta, literally “black earth” in Portuguese, was cultivated by Indigenous farmers in the Amazon Basin.
What does freedom mean? That is the question at the heart of Declarations of Freedom, an exhibition presented by the National Juneteenth Museum at Fort Works Art in Fort Worth.
Now on show in Athens, the South African artist’s new exhibition features probing depictions of motherhood, female strippers at work, nudity and what it means to age.
With summer in full swing, we asked artist Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer five quick questions about what’s on her mind — from travels to Greece and Belgium to unicorns and mythic storytelling. Here’s what she shared.
At the MIT List, “The Great Learning” transforms space into a meditative score, where suspended objects, shifting architecture, and celestial rhythms invite us to interrogate time through stillness.
“June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart” showcases seven decades of the artist’s prolific practice—spanning painting, drawing, and sculpture—and her belief in the handmade as a vessel for humor, intimacy, and invention.