Tom Seymour

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Gareth Harris |Gareth Harris |Tom Seymour

First published by Aperture in 1965 and reissued this year in a 60th-anniversary edition, Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition marks a turning point in the history of photography, both as an art form and as a subject of critical inquiry. The book was the New York-based magazine Aperture’s first monograph and emerged from the overwhelming response to a special Weston-dedicated issue.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Joanna Moorhead |Karen Chernick |Sarah P. Hanson |Tom Seymour

The World Press Photo award winner for 2025 is announced today, but there was little air of celebration around Samar Abu Elouf when she arrived at the exhibition in Amsterdam where her victorious shot took pride of place. Its subject is a boy called Mahmoud Ajjour, then age nine and now ten, who lost both his arms in an Israeli attack on Gaza a little over a year ago. When she took the picture, Abu Elouf says, she was thinking of her own four children, the youngest of whom is 12.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers |Tom Seymour |Benjamin Sutton |Elena Goukassian

A climate activist who smeared red and black paint on the pedestal and enclosure of an Edgar Degas ballerina sculpture in 2023 was found guilty on Tuesday (8 April) of “conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States” by a federal jury.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Sarvy Geranpayeh |Tom Seymour |Garry Shaw

Sudan’s National Museum, once the guardian of an invaluable collection of artefacts spanning thousands of years, has been ravaged by looting and severe destruction at the hands of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to initial assessments by the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM), the body responsible for preserving the country’s antiquities and archaeological sites.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Annabel Keenan |Anny Shaw |Amah-Rose Abrams |Tom Seymour

The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) in New Haven, Connecticut, holds the largest collection of British art outside the UK. After a two-year closure amid a $16.5m project to conserve its Modernist Louis Kahn-designed building, the YCBA is ready to reopen on 29 March. Marking the occasion, the museum presents two exhibitions by influential British artists with ties to the seaside town of Margate: J.M.W. Turner and Tracey Emin.