Artist Hew Locke, whose vibrant mixed media work in on exhibit in "Hew Locke: Passages" at the Yale Center for British Art, might not make visitors draw comparisons to "The Simpson's" creator Matt ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art today unveiled four new golden trophies installed in the niches of its Fifth Avenue facade by Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke. The works are part of the museum’s ...

Hew Locke's installation, "The Procession," was commissioned by Tate Britain in 2022. It's now on view at the ICA's Watershed in East Boston. (Courtesy Mel Taing/Institute of Contemporary Art) The ...

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 boat hovers on just this side of real. If it’s real, it’s from a country far south of the United States, where everyone paints everything in more vivid colors than we ever see, even in New Orleans ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Facade Commission: Hew Locke, Gilt at the metropolitan Museum in New York (all photos Hakim Bishara/Hyperallergic) On a sunny but chilly New York morning yesterday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Of course it is not a competition, but Tate Britain’s two most recent public commissions: Chila Burman’s neon extravaganza across its façade and Heather Phillipson’s epic dystopian gesamtkunstwerk in ...

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 ...

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.