Jerusalem excavation confirms Madaba mosaic map. More...

Woodchester Orpheus mosaic for sale on Thursday 24 June 2010. More...

December 2009 - Evelyn Nef, an arts patron whose storied life is embodied in a monumental mosaic by the celebrated artist Marc Chagall, has died. Chagall met Mrs. Nef through her husband, John Nef, and while staying at the Nefs' house in 1968, he declared his intention to create an artwork for them. More...

Topps Tiles UK launches its 2009 Mega Mosaic Makers Primary Schools Mosaic Competition. Nearly £3,000 worth of prizes have been donated by Topps Tiles, and the winner gets £750. More...

Pioneering Cailfornia artist Emile Norman dies. More...

Orsoni Prize 2009 winners announced. More...

Update on the Paolozzi mosaics at Tottenham Court Road tube station. More...

For the first time, copies of mosaics from the Dome of the Rock are on display in several Palestinian cities. More...

Mosaic Art Now magazine announces its first international “Exhibition in Print”. Designed to replicate the experience of visiting a fine art gallery, a prize of $1,000 will be awarded for the “Best in Show”. Deadline for submissions is 11 November 2009. More...

Topps Tiles UK is holding a competition for achievement in mosaic. The competition is open to adults learning mosaic at further education classes, community centres and workshops. Closing date for entries - Tuesday 1st December 2009. More...

Robot mosaics - specially designed software allows a robotic arm to re-create any image in mosaic form - 10 times faster than a human can. More...

Istanbul, Turkey - restoration workers have uncovered a well-preserved, long-hidden mosaic face of an angel at the Byzantine church of Haghia Sophia – 25 July 2009. More…

UK, Summer 2009 - New Malden’s Corpus Christi Primary School celebrates its 40th anniversary with a mosaic. More…

1,700-Year-Old Mosaic Floor to be unveiled in Lod (IsraelNN.com). More....

Modern approaches to mosaic at Lake Oswego's Festival of the Arts - Friday June 26, 2009. More....

Mosaic museum opens in the West Bank. Israel has inaugurated its first-ever museum of mosaics at a West Bank site identified with Christianity. More....

Mosaics go up at Kansas Humane Society building, 6 June 2009. Local artist Tina Murano and three workers installed 30 mosaic circles on the outside wall northeast Wichita. More....

Mosaic is final piece in Whitchurch Arts Trail. A new mosaic to complete the Whitchurch Arts Trail was unveiled on Monday, May 25. Created by local artist Elizabeth Turner, the artwork is situated next to the town’s Tesco supermarket. It is the final piece of the arts trail. More....

Ocean Springs bridge panels dedicated - 15 May 2009. A dedication ceremony recognizing Jackson County artists and contributing benefactors for the newly erected mosaic bridge panels was held on Friday at the foot of the Biloxi Bay Bridge in Ocean Springs. More....

1,500-year-old Mosaic Floor Unveiled in Ancient Synagogue Ruins - May 2009
The mosaic, which is part of a synagogue from the Byzantine period (fifth and sixth centuries AD), is located in the community of Ma'on-Nirim in the Negev, south of Jerusalem. More....

Primary Schools Mosaic Competition 2009
Following last year's great success there will be another Mega Mosaic Makers competition, sponsored by Topps Tiles, in 2009. Any UK primary school can enter, and any mosaic made in the last three years may be submitted. More.....

Artists unveil mosaic mural in Santa Barbara, USA
Daily Sound (20 March 2009) - Local artists and environmental leaders gather to celebrate the installation of a mosaic mural at the South Coast Watershed Resource Center. More.....

Byzantine Period Church With Beautiful Mosaics Discovered
Science Daily (15 March 2009) — A church that dates to the Byzantine period which is paved with breathtakingly beautiful mosaics and a dedicatory inscription was exposed in an archaeological excavation. More.....

Prof. Liz James and How The Byzantines Made Their Glass Tesserae
Mosaics are perhaps the most outstanding examples of Byzantine art which survive, yet we know next to nothing about how they were made. More....

Was the Aqsa Mosque built over the remains of a Byzantine church? Jerusalem Post, 16 November 2008. The photo archives of a British archaeologist who carried out the only excavation ever undertaken at the Temple Mount's Aqsa Mosque show a Byzantine mosaic floor underneath the mosque. More....

Franciscan priest and archaeologist who became an expert on the mosaics of early churches in Jordan
Father Michele Piccarillo, who died on 26 October 2008 aged 63, was a Franciscan priest, biblical scholar, archaeologist, mosaic specialist, Greek epigraphist and restoration expert of the Christian Holy Land. More.....

Launch of TE-21, Chartres, France, 25 October 2008
TE-21 is a movement created by a group of mosaic artists – each internationally recognized – who exhibit together to give greater awareness to the medium of tessellated expression in the 21st century. More....

Archaeologist joins call to save unique Roman Villa
An archaeologist at The University of Nottingham has joined the fight to protect the site of a unique Roman villa. The site, until recently buried under the old Southwell Minster School, has planning permission for 13 new homes. More.....

Byzantine mosaics unearthed in Bulgaria
A team of Bulgarian archaeologists discovered Wednesday unique mosaics from Byzantine times during excavation works in the town of Kyustendil. More.....

New Director of the Tate Gallery
Ask the Prime Minister to appoint a new Director for the Tate Gallery, so that we might at last see some mosaic art where it should be. More.....

DOMO - German Organisation for Mosaic Art Society founded.
In spring 2008 the German Organisation for Mosaic Art e.V. (DOMO) has been founded. More.....

Peggy Guggenheim portrait
Now in Orsini mosaic. More.....

Orsoni Prize 2007 winners announced
Sept 21, 2007
Venice, Italy…The first bi-annual Orsoni Prize, International Award for Mosaic Fine Art has announced the winners of this year’s competition. More.....

Commission a mosaic and help a child
In 2006 the art of mosaicing found its way to Nepal for the first time thanks to EBT Founder/Director Philip Holmes. Under his tuition, children at our Kathmandu refuge have been having fun producing their own eye-catching work using cheap locally-available bathroom tiles. More.....

S.A.M.A. Helps Celebrate MAPEI’s 70th Anniversary
Deerfield Beach, Florida – Twenty members of the Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA) recently worked together to produce a series of 12” x 12” (30 x 30 cm) glass tile murals celebrating MAPEI’s 70th anniversary. More.....

Dallas Artist Sonia King Receives Spectrum Award
In April, Sonia King was one of seven mosaic artists in the world to receive a 2006 Spectrum Award for a ceramic tile mosaic project she designed and crafted for Children's Medical Center Dallas.More.....

The Institure of Mosaic Art
A Comprehensive Mosaic School And Center, Opens In California's Bay Area
On September 24th, 2005 the Institute of Mosaic Art (IMA) officially opened its doors in Oakland, California. More.....

Assembly Projects
This is a new international visual arts organisation focused on developing a wide variety of engaging contemporary arts projects and events in Bath and North East Somerset. More.....

Neighbourhood Art in Washington DC
An ambitious heritage art project provides low-income neighborhoods with a local version of Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. More.....

Martian Mosaic Graffiti 4/8/04
As revealed in the Manchester Evening News last week, mosaics of aliens from the classic arcade game Space Invaders are appearing on walls in the city centre.More.....

Westminster Cathedral
75 pictures of the mosaics from the interior of Westminster Cathedral can be found at the Joy of Shards web site. Why not pay them a visit and then read our article on our features page

Educational articles
Want to know how to cut tiles, or why grout cracks, or the difference between porcelain and ceramic tiles. Look at www.earthwindtiles.com Their interesting articles, added to once a month should help answer these question and more

Car park to be laid over Roman mosaic
Guardian Unlimited, John Hooper
Archaeologists expressed dismay yesterday after learning that a car park was to be laid over excavations which have yielded some of the most impressive mosaics ever found under Rome. More....