Editorial

Profile - 19 Jul 2018

‘For God’s Sake, Mr. Walther, Do Not Speak Of It’

German iconoclast Franz Erhard Walther on his life and influences: from expulsion from art school to a missed encounter with Marcel Duchamp

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News - 20 Jul 2018

Mark Leckey’s Iconic Video ‘Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore’ Returns to YouTube After Copyright Claim Removal

‘I’m plumping for people power. The Creative Commons spoke!’ the Turner Prize-winning artist says

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News - 20 Jul 2018

New Ruya Maps Initiative Shines Light on Artists Working in Conflict Zones

In further news: Creative Scotland chief executive quits; Pussy Riot jailed for World Cup protest; Colosseum rejects Beyoncé 

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City Report - 20 Jul 2018

In Toronto’s Don Valley a Public Art Project Exploring Work, Shelter and Sanctuary

Every night they dissembled the shed; every morning they built it anew

News - 20 Jul 2018

With Europe’s Far-Right Turn, German Politicians Campaign For Cultural Freedom: ‘Art Does Not Have to Please’

The online petition organized by Green Party MPs warns that far-right politics across the continent has dangerous implications for the arts

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Review - 20 Jul 2018

Elaine Cameron-Weir's Exquisite Torture

The artist brings subtle grandeur to Dortmunder Kunstverein with a series of luxuriant installations, alluding to pleasure, plain and transcendence

News - 20 Jul 2018

Oxford Don Counts 93 Penises in Bayeux Tapestry; Says Makers Must Have Been Male

Portrait of Timothée Chalamet as art history muse, and anyone for some Handmaid’s Tale-themed wine?

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News - 19 Jul 2018

Street Artist, Whose Work David Cameron Gifted to Barack Obama, Convicted of Assault

Ben Eine (real name Benjamin Flynn) – a favourite of Samantha Cameron – punched his girlfriend in the face at London’s Serpentine Gallery

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Review - 19 Jul 2018

Should the Baltic Triennial 13 Have Given Up On The Ghost of Globalism?

Held across three Baltic cities for the first time, why did this edition make no attempt to say something to – or about – its host region?

News - 19 Jul 2018

Mos Def To Open New York Gallery Dedicated to Hip-Hop And Art

The Compound in the South Bronx will open with a show of legendary hip-hop photographer Jonathan Mannion

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Opinion - 18 Jul 2018

William Kentridge and Co.’s Epic Production Remembers Africa’s Incalculable Contribution to WW1

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of WWI, The Head & The Load at Tate Modern makes incomprehension the work’s guiding theme

Review - 18 Jul 2018

Keg de Souza’s Sense of Community

The Australian artist’s first institutional show at Artspace Sydney includes a library, a meeting place and workshops on ‘mindful eating’

Opinion - 17 Jul 2018

Why Pussy Riot’s Anti-Kremlin Protest at the World Cup Final Matters

The punk artists’s invasion of the pitch during the Croatia vs. France match reminded us what Russia’s new ‘normality’ really means

City Report - 17 Jul 2018

Glasgow After the Fire: What Has Been the Impact on the Wider Arts Community?

Cancelled events and financial woes have left neighbours such as CCA and its cultural tenants in a state of limbo

Review - 17 Jul 2018

10th Liverpool Biennial: ‘Beautiful world, where are you?’

Works by Ryan Gander and Rehana Zaman showed it was the people of Liverpool who formed a thread through some of the most successful projects

News - 17 Jul 2018

Venice Biennale 2019, Titled ‘May You Live in Interesting Times’, to Tackle the Age of Fake News

In further news: Brexit voters avoid arts; New York libraries’s culture pass unlocks museums; Grayson Perry-backed artists’s housing wins approval&

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News - 17 Jul 2018

Artist Wael Shawky Delivers Rebuke After Israeli Gallery Shows ‘Stolen Arab Art’ Without Consent

Tel Aviv’s 1:1 Center for Art and Politics is intentionally exhibiting work by contemporary Arab artists without permission or attribution

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Artists and Lecturers Dispute ‘Freelance’ National Gallery Employment
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As Conductor and Composer, Oliver Knussen (1952–2018) Offered A ‘Seemingly Out-Of-Place Delicacy’
Knussen’s music laid out each component as ‘precarious, vulnerable, exposed’ – and his conducting similarly worked from...

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With Trump Baby Set To Fly, A Brief History of Inflatable Protest Art
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Wes Anderson Is Combing Through ‘An Embarrassment of Riches’ For Curatorial Debut in Vienna
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Thousands of Unseen Andy Warhol Photos Documenting Celebrity Friends and Lovers Finally See The Light
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Legendary Gallerists Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers Discuss Their 35-Year Journey In the Arts
‘When I opened Monika Sprüth Galerie, only very few German gallerists represented women artists’

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Does Our Age of Art World Boycotts and Museum Protests Prove That Resistance Is Not Futile?
Can a ragtag cluster of artists, curators and critics really push back against our ‘bare’ art world?

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National Gallery Purchases £3.6M Artemisia Gentileschi; Transforming How It ‘Tells The Story of Women Artists’
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The Art World is Overwhelmingly Liberal But Still Overwhelmingly Middle Class and White – Why?
Is the lack of social mobility in the arts due to a self-congratulatory conviction that the sector represents the...

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No, Germaine Greer, Art Does Belong in Schools – it’s the Foundation of Healthy Public Cultural Life
The controversial intellectual suggests art would be better done at home – she should be careful what she wishes for

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The Fascination in John Coltrane’s ‘Lost’ Album Lies in its Incompleteness
Previously unheard music on Both Directions At Once includes blues as imposing as the saxophonist would ever record

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‘New Dark Age’: James Bridle’s Lovecraft-Inspired Prologue to the End of the World
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Germaine Greer Says ‘We Should Stop Teaching Art’ in Schools
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Alex Baczynski-Jenkins’s Choreography Describes Desire as Pursuit, Not Capture
An exhibition of performances at Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, unfolds the rituals of sexual encounters

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Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler and Laurie Anderson Condemn Festival’s ‘Censorship’ of Young Fathers over BDS
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Amateur Art Restorer Transforms 16th-Century Saint George Effigy into Cartoon Knight
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