3 h. ago 'World's oldest art' from 67,000 years ago could rewrite history of humanity

Researchers were stunned when they discovered what appeared to be the outline of a hand while carrying out excavations. The discovering beat the previous record by over 1,000 years

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3 h. ago 'World's oldest art' discovered as cave painting of red claw hand from 67,800 years ago

Researchers were stunned when they discovered what appeared to be the outline of a hand while carrying out excavations. The discovering beat the previous record by over 1,000 years

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8 h. ago Hand shape in Indonesian cave may be world’s oldest known rock art

Archaeologists say stencil painted with ochre in limestone cave on Muna Island was created at least 67,800 years agoThe faded outline of a hand on a cave wall in Indonesia may be the world’s oldest known rock art, according to archaeologists who say it was created at least 67,800 years ago.The ancient hand stencil was discovered in a limestone cave popular with tourists on Muna Island, part of south-eastern Sulawesi, where it had gone unnoticed between more recent paintings of animals and other figures. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago ‘The rise of fascism makes our work even more important’: Montez Press, champions of queer, feminist art

They published a raunchy book inspired by the Guardian’s Owen Jones; broadcast interviews with obscure punk legends; and make calendars to navigate the world of underground art. Now they’re going globalStuart McKenzie turns towards a fan on a makeshift stage so his long brunette hair blows in the wind. The artist is dressed in a power suit with thick rimmed glasses, flamboyantly smoking a cigarette as he performs the confessional poetry he’s been writing since the 80s. “Stuart is this fantastic London staple who is just coming out of the woodwork now,” says Emily Pope, the director of Montez Press, who hosted the fundraiser where McKenzie performed to support their queer, feminist press and radio.McKenzie is a typical Montez Press collaborator: an experimental artist who doesn’t fit neatly into either art, literary or music spaces (although he did recently support the indie band Bar Italia). He’s later in his career than some of the emerging artists they collaborate with but he has ...

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13 h. ago A major Renoir exhibition is coming to London this year – here’s why it will be one of the city’s best art shows in 2026

A major Renoir exhibition is coming to London this year – here’s why it will be one of the city’s best art shows in 2026  Time Out Worldwide

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62 h. ago Aliens 'believe in religion just like us' but will discard gods when they land on Earth

Dr Gary L Wenk of Ohio State University believes aliens exist and humanity will be able to bond with them over a shared history of 'gods and spiritual rituals' when they visit

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4 d. ago I visited the French city you won’t have heard of with surreal hotels, unique art museums and 800

MEET Metz. It’s a French city you may not have heard of – but with impressive history, great food, and world-beating stained glass and art, it’s worth putting on your radar.   It has Luxembourg and Germany as neighbours and has been at Europe’s crossroads since Roman times. My discovery began with checking in at the surreal Maison Heler Metz hotel,...

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6 d. ago Prado chief says Madrid art museum doesn’t need ‘single visitor more’

Record 3.5 million visited in 2025 and plans are afoot to ensure gallery does not become overburdened like LouvreThe head of the Prado has said the Madrid art museum does not need “a single visitor more” after it welcomed a record 3.5 million people last year, adding that plans are being drawn up to ensure it does not become a victim of its own success like the Louvre in Paris.In 2025 the Prado, which is home to such masterpieces as Velázquez’s Las Meninas and Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, was visited by 3,513,402 people, an increase of more than 56,000 from the previous year. Visitor numbers have risen by more than 816,000 over the past decade. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Prado cannot be like ‘the Metro at rush hour’, says Madrid museum’s chief

Record 3.5 million visited in 2025 and plans are afoot to ensure gallery does not become overburdened like LouvreThe head of the Prado has said the Madrid art museum does not need “a single visitor more” after it welcomed a record 3.5 million people last year, adding that plans are being drawn up to ensure it does not become a victim of its own success like the Louvre in Paris.In 2025 the Prado, which is home to such masterpieces as Velázquez’s Las Meninas and Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, was visited by 3,513,402 people, an increase of more than 56,000 from the previous year. Visitor numbers have risen by more than 816,000 over the past decade. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Glam lawyer mauled by shark in terrifying attack shows off her horror injuries

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Surfer Tayane Dalazen shared pictures of the bloody bite marks on her Instagram after she was attacked by a nurse shark, a a species without a significant history of attacks on humans

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7 d. ago East Kilbride Arts Centre hosts free exhibition by Robert Hair Miller

He said: “This exhibition is really to show I have many interests in the art world, although portraiture will always be top of my list.

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9 d. ago ‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross

Piet Mondrian found fame, fortune and glory with his grid-like paintings filled with basic colours. But did many of his ideas come from Marlow Moss? Our writer celebrates an extraordinary British talent who died in obscurityIn 1972, the mighty Kunstmuseum in the Hague bought three paintings by a little known British artist called Marlow Moss. The prestigious art gallery was keen to show the enormous influence of Piet Mondrian – the famous Dutch painter acclaimed for his black grids lit with bold blues and brash yellows – on such lowly also-rans as Moss.Yet, should you visit the Kunstmuseum today, you’ll find the Moss works positioned front and centre, while a similar piece by the great Mondrian, who would later become the toast of New York, is hidden behind a pillar. Why the volte-face? Because it is now widely recognised in the art world that it was as much Moss who influenced Mondrian as the other way round, at least when it came to the double or parallel lines he started using in...

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1 week ago A Huge Frida Kahlo Exhibition Will Be One of the Best London Art Shows in 2026

A Huge Frida Kahlo Exhibition Will Be One of the Best London Art Shows in 2026  Time Out Worldwide

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1 week ago Murugiah: Ever Feel Like... | Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration | Art in London

Murugiah: Ever Feel Like... | Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration | Art in London  Time Out Worldwide

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1 week ago Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life | Hayward Gallery | Art in London

Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life | Hayward Gallery | Art in London  Time Out Worldwide

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2 w. ago A guide to the most anticipated exhibitions coming to the UK in 2026: From fashion blockbusters to art world icons

Move between London and beyond, from the playful worlds of Aardman and Beryl Cook to the glamour of Marilyn Monroe and Schiaparelli.

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2 w. ago We study glaciers. ‘Artificial glaciers’ and other tech may halt their total collapse | Brent Minchew and Colin Meyer

How might we prevent sea-level rise? Satellite-based radar, solar-powered drones, robot submarines and lab-based ‘artificial glaciers’ could all play a roleSea levels are rising faster than at any point in human history, and for every foot that waters rise, 100 million people lose their homes. At current projections, that means about 300 million people will be forced to move in the decades to come, along with the social and political conflict as people migrate inland. Despite this looming crisis, the world still lacks specific, reliable forecasts for when and where the seas will rise – and we have invested almost nothing in understanding whether and how we can slow it down.Societies must continue to focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but it’s increasingly clear that the world needs to do more: we need to predict the future of the world’s ice with precision, and to explore safe, science-backed methods to keep it from melting away. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Artists decry dismantling of Belgium’s oldest contemporary art museum

Cost-saving plan to transfer Antwerp museum’s entire collection to another city described as ‘simply insane’Prominent artists have spoken out against an “arbitrary reshaping” of Belgium’s museum landscape, as the Flanders region seeks to cut public spending by dismantling the country’s oldest contemporary art gallery and transplanting its entire collection to another city.At a press conference in Antwerp on Tuesday, the directors of the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA), which was founded in 1985, decried what they called the “flagrant illegalities” of the museum sector shake-up, which is due to be debated in Belgium’s parliament on Friday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Arborescence by Rhett Davis review – why would people turn into trees?

This quietly satirical speculative novel tells a story of metamorphosis, but feels insulated from real ecological crisisIn the book-length essay Death By Landscape, Elvia Wilk gives a potted history of fiction in which humans turn into plants. There is Daphne, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, who is so afraid she will be raped by Apollo that she begs her father to transform her into a laurel tree. More recently, in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, brutalised Yeong-hye refuses food and takes root. Wilk argues that, in these stories and others, “a woman implants herself in despair, but also protest”.Rhett Davis’s Arborescence – an even-tempered, quietly satirical speculative novel – tells a story of cross-species transformation at scale. The narrator is a man, Bren, who at the outset is dismissive of unverified reports of “people standing around believing they’re trees”. His partner, Caelyn, is curious and undaunted. She drags him out for a hike. “I’m not sure I like f...

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2 w. ago Sir Chris Hoy to make first public appearance since horror bike crash

Sir Chris Hoy will present the Ballon d'Art trophy at the World Darts Championship final on January 3 - just weeks after breaking his leg in a serious mountain bike accident

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