NewsArt schools
Sydney bucks trend for marginalisation of drawing at art schools with new National Centre for Drawing
Opening on 4 November, the centre, which is part of the city's National Art School, is modelled on the the Drawing Centre in New York and London’s Drawing Room
PreviewNalini Malani
'The past is being weaponised': Nalini Malani's anti-fascist animations come to the Whitechapel Gallery
Eighty-eight of the artist’s iPad drawings will be projected across the gallery's walls for her first UK solo show
BlogDiary
Get sketching: BBC’s Life Drawing Live! programme returns under lockdown
ReviewBook Shorts
Things that... provoke some thought: book of drawings philosophically questions the relationship of 'things'
Groups of pictures are assembled on the basis of word association—but not everything in this graphic novel makes good sense
PreviewPablo Picasso
Royal Academy of Arts to show rare Picasso drawings from ground-breaking 1956 film of the artist at work
Most of the works, created with felt tip pen on newsprint, have been lost, but two have been specially restored for London show
ReviewBook Shorts
This book is an omnibus of delightfully scary Landis Blair cartoons
The devoted follower of Edward Gorey has proved himself a worthy disciple
NewsBooks
Missing Leonardo link: writer discovers that Da Vinci's anatomy drawings were owned by Charles II
New book hopes research of papers belonging to the king's physician will lead to further "eureka" moments
ArchiveExhibitions
A long history of scholarship drives survey of Raphael’s drawings currently exhibited at the Ashmolean
Debate over attribution has marked modern scholarship on this great master, bringing nuance to the Oxford show
NewsContemporary art
Where anxiety lives: Jessica Lynne on Rashid Johnson
The artist’s Drawing Center exhibition channels the disquiet of black life
NewsConceptual Art
Sol LeWitt’s conceptual works installed for first time since the 1970s
Drawings defy time as they go on show in Santander's Botín Foundation
ArchiveFocus
Clarity in the fog of war: the drawings of Laura Footes
She bases her drawing partly on her experiences at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, “the largest military hospital in Europe”
ArchiveExhibitions
Andy Warhol at Sadie Coles: private drawings from the 1950s
These never-before-seen works show a more personal side of the artist