Ray Harryhausen

Volcano films – ranked!

Missing the heatwave? With the release of Sara Dosa’s hotly tipped new documentary Fire of Love, we round up the most epic, exploding-mountain movies ever made

Anne Billson

21, Jul, 2022 @11:00 AM

Ray Harryhausen’s killer skeletons and Georg Baselitz’s gnarled hands – the week in art

Restless LA artist Henry Taylor shows some edgy assemblages and the Gee’s Bend quilters show their haunting artwork – all in your weekly dispatch

Jonathan Jones

23, Apr, 2021 @1:00 PM

Eye-popping $2m doodles and genius special effects – the week in art

A taster of Jean Dubuffet’s cartoon-like pictures are online, National Galleries of Scotland gives Ray Harryhausen a ‘virtual experience’ and the British Museum delivers a brief history of the world through objects

Jonathan Jones

02, Apr, 2021 @1:00 PM

Cinema's finest dream-maker and sacks appeal in Ghana – the week in art

Special effects master Ray Harryhausen’s poetic visions come into focus as Ibrahim Mahama takes a suggestive view of the cocoa bean industry

Jonathan Jones

06, Nov, 2020 @3:00 PM

Ray Harryhausen's art raid: where the effects genius found his terrifying monsters

From his sword-swinging skeletons to a horn-headed cyclops, a new show reveals how the gruesome godfather of special effects plundered antiquity for ideas – and his own art collection

Jonathan Jones

22, Oct, 2020 @1:26 PM

Palette cleansers: our photography, art and architecture picks for 2020

Warhol is revealed as a prophet, London goes down the rabbit hole and Don McCullin takes his masterworks to Merseyside

Adrian Searle, Jonathan Jones, Oliver Wainwright and Sean O’Hagan

02, Jan, 2020 @8:00 AM

Titan of mythology movies left behind a treasure trove of ideas

Lost and rare material from master animator Ray Harryhausen could now inspire a new film epic years after his death

Dalya Alberge

21, Jul, 2019 @6:00 AM

Sci-fi teleports into the mainstream with Barbican exhibition

Summer 2017 show will include concept art and models from the films Godzilla, Stargate and Dark City

Mark Brown Arts correspondent

29, Jun, 2016 @3:57 PM

This week's new film events

Moving Stories | 70 x 70: The Sorcerers + Iain Sinclair, Alan Moore & Chris Petit | Ray Harryhausen | London Indian Film Festival

Steve Rose

13, Jul, 2013 @5:00 AM

This week's new film events

Easter Film Hop & Midsummer Night Screen | The Invisible Lighthouse | Aho & Soldan | The Ray Harryhausen Collection

Steve Rose

18, May, 2013 @5:00 AM

Dinosaurs on film – fun, fiction and failures

Dr Dave Hone talks the good, the bad and the ugly of dinosaurs on the silver screen and pays tribute to Ray Harryhausen

Dr Dave Hone

16, May, 2013 @4:12 PM

How Ray Harryhausen's animation has the edge on CGI | Brendon Connelly

Brendon Connelly: The stop-motion pioneer who died on Tuesday brought life to his creations in a way CGI still strives to emulate

Brendon Connelly

08, May, 2013 @3:40 PM

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