The British Museum has announced a major new collaboration with Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke. The institution has commissioned new works by the artist that will respond directly to items from its ...

It wasn’t Columbus Day for everyone in the US this week. Many eschewed the national holiday to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day, choosing instead to honor the histories of Native Americans and other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Hew Locke: Passages," is on view at the Yale Center for British Art, Oct. 2, 2025–Jan.11, 2026 (Richard Caspole/Courtesy of Yale ...

LONDON — The first thing that may strike viewers upon entering Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries is a raucous spectacle of colors. More than 140 mannequins, festooned with fabric strips, elaborate masks ...

LONDON — It is one thing to commission surveys into an art institution’s links to colonialism or slavery. Repatriation and recognition of cultural objects obtained by nefarious means remain urgent ...

The British artist Hew Locke is best known for works reflecting both his fascination with and ambivalence towards ideas and images of Britishness within a global context. His explorations of cultural ...

Hew Locke, Oscar Murillo, Iza Tarasewicz, Selma Selman and Róza El-Hassan are among the artists taking part in the 2027 ...

Skulptur Projekte Münster, the storied exhibition that takes place once every decade in the titular German town, has revealed some of the first details of its 2027 edition—the first staged without the ...

Hew Locke's 'The Nameless' mural at Prosepect.3, 2 Hew Locke's 'The Nameless' mural at Prosepect.3, 2 (Photo by Doug MacCash / NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) London-based artist Hew Locke's murals are ...

Hew Locke’s sculptural interrogations of Britain’s imperial past may be bang on the spirit of the still-smouldering Black Lives Matter moment. But there’s an elliptical, miniaturist finesse to the ...

Over the entrance to the Met are medallion portraits of white, male art heroes. Enter Hew Locke with a timely and pointed message about “Gilt” (or “Guilt”). “Gilt: Trophy 3” (2022) by Hew Locke, one ...

In a major new commission for the Tate museum group in London, the British-Guyanese artist returns to the themes of empire and postcolonial reckoning that have fascinated him throughout his career.