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Opinion - 25 May 2018

Women in the Arts: Iwona Blazwick

‘At last there is a communal mechanism for women to call a halt to the demeaning conventions of machismo’

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Culture Digest - 25 May 2018

Weekend Reading List: ‘The Onion’ in the Age of Trump

Satire and ‘fake news’, the message of the leftist ‘little magazine’, and #RepealThe8th: what to read this weekend

News - 25 May 2018

Grayson Perry, Tracey Emin and Yinka Shonibare Create ‘Miniature Artworks’ for Royal Mail Stamps

Along with Fiona Rae, Barbara Rae and Norman Ackroyd, the artists’ designs celebrate the Royal Academy’s 250th anniversary

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News - 25 May 2018

Leading Austrian Museum Director Resigns; Cites ‘Resurgence of Nationalist Politics’

In further news: Olu Oguibe says his pro-refugee obelisk in Kassel is under far-right pressure; nominees for BelgianArtPrize withdraw after critici

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News - 24 May 2018

Gerhard Richter To Sell €1 Million Worth of Art to House the Homeless

The German artist has put up 18 works for sale to raise money to buy 100 homes

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Review - 24 May 2018

Postcard from Naples: Shows Exploring the City's Layered History

From Glenn Ligon’s first solo exhibition in Italy, at Thomas Dane Gallery, to a unique project in an ancient Roman aqueduct

Profile - 24 May 2018

How Philip Roth (1933-2018) Probed the Depths of Male Desire and American Anxiety

The novelist explored Jewish identity in the US through a lens of frustrated heterosexuality

Opinion - 24 May 2018

Why I’m Voting ‘Yes’ to Repeal the 8th in Ireland’s Abortion Referendum

Artist Jesse Jones, who represented Ireland at last year’s Venice Biennale, on what is at stake in Friday’s Irish abortion referendum

News - 23 May 2018

Damien Hirst Designs Shark-Infested Bar in Vegas; Says ‘Art Can Survive Anywhere’

Mo Salah’s football boots enter the British Museum; Maggi Hambling’s whiffy advice for skipping gallery crowds: the latest in art world silliness

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Opinion - 23 May 2018

Sickish Landscapes: Trauma and the Pastoral in Three New Novels

Provincial landscapes mask creeping violence in three new novels by Emma Glass, Sophie Mackintosh and Fiona Mozley 

Review - 23 May 2018

Art and the Decolonial Turn in Latin America, 1960–1985

At Museo Jumex, Mexico City, a dense survey of work disrupting oppressive power dynamics in formerly colonized regions

Opinion - 23 May 2018

Out of the Shadows: A Contrasting History Lesson in Black and White

A surprising show of silhouettes at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. sheds light on obscure chapters of US history 

News - 22 May 2018

Robert Indiana, Creator of Iconic ‘LOVE’ Series, Has Died

The increasingly reclusive artist, whose stacked LOVE design became one of the 20th century’s most reproduced images, has passed away at t

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Interview - 22 May 2018

Wayne Koestenbaum Gets Tricky with His Pronouns

‘I spend more time being seduced by the void … as a way of energizing my language’: poet Wayne Koestenbaum speaks about his new book

News - 22 May 2018

Andy Warhol-Founded Interview Magazine Folds After Nearly Five Decades

In further news: white supremacist vandals attack Rothko Chapel; Israeli minister bans art produced in solidarity with Palestinian victims

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Review - 22 May 2018

Zoë Paul's Slow Flow: From Permaculture to Primitivism

Informed by her heritage, the Athens-based artist reflects on technology’s gradual erosion of social relations at Spike Island, Bristol 

Feature - 21 May 2018

Like a Thousand Knives Being Sharpened: a Tribute to Glenn Branca 1948–2018

To experience the music of the composer, who passed away last week at the age of 69, was to hear something tense, physical, almost pugilistic

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Andy Warhol-Founded Interview Magazine Folds After Nearly Five Decades
In further news: white supremacist vandals attack Rothko Chapel; Israeli minister bans art produced in solidarity with...

Feature

Like a Thousand Knives Being Sharpened: a Tribute to Glenn Branca 1948–2018
To experience the music of the composer, who passed away last week at the age of 69, was to hear something tense,...

Opinion

Why Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘Shoplifters’ Won the Palme d’Or at Cannes
In a year charged with politicized tensions, mastery of craft trumps truth-to-power commentary

Profile

Tom Wolfe (1931–2018)
The US writer, who died last week, brought a quality of inestimable importance to the modern novel: a mind that was...

News

Sean Combs Revealed as the Buyer of Kerry James Marshall’s Record Breaking Painting
The $21M painting was the highest price ever paid for a work by a living African American artist at auction

Culture Digest

Weekend Reading List: What Our Response to Childish Gambino’s ‘This is America’ Says About Fandom as Criticism
Royal bodies, the ‘incel’ mindset and those Childish Gambino hot-takes: what to read this weekend

News

Germany Plans Arts Budget Boost of $356 Million; Says ‘Culture is the Foundation of a Democratic Society’
In further news: women wearing rainbow badges beaten in Beijing’s 798; gallerists Georg Kargl and Richard Gray have...

Opinion

Women in the Arts: Sandra Patron
‘Coping as a woman in France is a daily battle: the aggression can be subtle, and you always have to push harder to...

News

A$AP Rocky and Ai Weiwei Are Here to Answer the Art World’s Most Eternal Questions
The rapper and artist have thoughts about originality in art; Melania Trump tries graphic design – all the latest...
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Locals Protest Rachel Whiteread’s Dalby Forest Sculpture, Comparing it to an ‘Inner City Bus Shelter’
Yorkshire residents complain that the concrete sculpture of a ‘Nissen hut’ will attract excrement, vandalism and litter

Profile

Per Kirkeby (1938–2018)
Poul Erik Tøjner pays tribute to Denmark’s most important artist since Asger Jorn

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Unselfconscious is the New Black for Emerging Artists of Colour
Toyin Ojih Odutola’s portraits of a fictional aristocratic Nigerian family push toward an expanded definition...

News

Instagram Under Fire For Deleting Artist’s Account Over Half-Nude Artwork
Photographer Dragana Jurisic says her account was deactivated after she uploaded an artwork depicting a partially naked...

News

Royal Academy Marks 250th With £56m David Chipperfield-Designed Expansion
In further news: open letter protests all-male shortlist for BelgianArtPrize; Arts Council of Ireland issues...

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Critic’s Guide to the Best Shows in Lisbon
From Sol Calero’s playful clichés of Latin America to an homage to British modernist architect Alison Smithson

Opinion

‘The Rhonda Lieberman Reader’ Is The Answer To Our Prayers
Everybody’s favourite underpaid, over-educated, raven-haired art critic, Rhonda Lieberman, is as relevant as ever

Opinion

What Happened to the Women Artists who Won Prizes in 1918?
‘Prize & Prejudice’ at London's UCL Art Museum is a bittersweet celebration of female talent

News

Cruising Pavilion Highlights Buildings ‘as Sexual Practice’ at Venice Architecture Biennale
The curators want to rectify the biennale’s ‘failure to question the hetero-normative production of space’; ‘poppers...

Opinion

What Installing a Demolished London Estate in Venice Says About Our Housing Crisis
A fragment of the brutalist Robin Hood Gardens will go on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale

Opinion

Women in the Arts: Julieta González
‘Women's role in shaping the history of contemporary art is being reappraised’

Profile

‘I Am Now a Saint’: Brian O’Doherty Turns 90
Three shows in Ireland celebrate the legendary polymath, artist and author of Inside the White Cube

News

Former Lovers Marina Abramović and Ulay to Pen Memoir Together
The legendary performance artists will partner up again to detail their tumultuous relationship in a new book

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Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry Protest Arts Exclusion in Schools
An open letter signed by over 100 leading artists including 15 Turner prize-winners says that new UK education policy...

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Nudist Day at Parisian Art Museum Hailed as Historic Breakthrough
Naturists triumph at art gallery; soothing students with colouring books; Kanye’s architectural firm: your dose of art...

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Why the Marvel Cinematic Universe Can Show Us a Story, But Can’t Tell Us a Plot
Avengers: Infinity War confirms the domination of mass culture by the franchise: what ever happened to narrative...

Interview

‘I’d rather lose prizes and win cases’: an interview with Eyal Weizman of Turner Prize-nominated Forensic Architecture
The agency’s founder talks about warfare in the age of post truth, deconstructing images and holding states and...

Opinion

How Powerful is Saudi Arabia’s Soft Power Push?
From hobnobbing with Oprah to championing new art centres, millennial crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is following a...

Opinion

Yes the Turner Prize 2018 is Political, and We Shouldn’t be Surprised
A juror for the award last year, Dan Fox on why the Turner Prize is and always will be political (whatever that means)

Opinion

Outrage over Hiring a White Woman as African Art Curator Misunderstands Expertise
The argument that ancestral connection offers a natural grasp of the complex histories and aesthetics of African art is...

Interview

Shock of the New
One of most iconic and controversial writers of the past 40 years, Tom Wolfe discusses writing, art and intellectual...

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Joseph Kosuth at Frieze New York 2018

Frieze Art Fair Video - 06 May 2018

‘You Don't Get The Answers In the Back Of the Book’

Joseph Kosuth talks about Almine Rech (C24)’s solo presentation of his work at Frieze New York 2018

Nicelle Beauchene with her booth in the 'For Your Information' section at Frieze New York 2018

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Nicelle Beauchene Remembers Hudson

‘The bright yellow square - that’s Hudson’

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