As a landmark retrospective of the artist's work opens at the Royal Academy in London, the “godfather of the YBAs” reflects ...

At 83, you could forgive Michael Craig-Martin for grumbling that it’s about time he was given a career-spanning retrospective. But you get the sense from this inescapably joyful and beautifully ...

Michael Craig-Martin’s Object Lessons at the Royal Academy For six decades, the artist has mined found objects for meaning and metaphor—with brash and bright results along the way.

A cedar tree climbed by The Beatles, an oak that may have inspired Virginia Woolf, and a lime representing peace in Northern Ireland are among those shortlisted for Tree of the Year 2025. Voting opens ...

This live oak photographed on April 18, 2025, is just feet from Ribaut Road and has been growing for an estimated 200 years in Beaufort. A local tree expert, Michael Murphy with Preservation Tree ...

A restaurant chain has apologized after sparking outrage when it cut down an oak tree in London that was believed to be up to 500 years old.

Learn more about Michael Craig-Martin (Irish, 1941). Read the artist bio and gain a deeper understanding with MutualArt's artist profile.

The shrub-like oak tree has been a fixture of the landscape since mastodons and saber-toothed cats last roamed Southern California.

Inspired by Michael Craig-Martin’s 1973 conceptual artwork that insists a glass of water is an oak tree, Crouch’s theatrical illusion talks things into being.

Michael Craig-Martin was the most playful and provocative of the conceptual artists. His early sculptures are like visual puns, a play on the laws of nature. On the Table, 1970 (pictured below right), ...

Now 83, the Irish-born artist Michael Craig-Martin has waited a long time for this "career-spanning retrospective" at the Royal Academy, said Nancy Durrant in the London Evening Standard.

Now 83, the Irish-born artist Michael Craig-Martin has waited a long time for this "career-spanning retrospective" at the Royal Academy, said Nancy Durrant in the London Evening Standard.