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‘May You Live In Interesting Times’ will be the first ever biennale exhibition in which 50% of artists are female.

The pioneering US artist was best known for using painting, film, performance and installation to challenge ideas around sexuality and gender

After microscopic examinations revealed ‘left-handed charcoal marks’, the sketch is now thought to be by the Renaissance master  

The visual companion to ‘When I Get Home’ features choreographed dances, DeLoreans, and animations by artists Robert Pruitt and Jacolby Satterwhite

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2.3 million people visited the gallery due in part to the portraits of the former US President and First Lady

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Upon his release, the 81-year-old artist declined a glass of whisky and asked for a cup of Yorkshire Tea

The Iraqi-American artist withdrew in protest over the Whitney’s vice chairman Warren B. Kanders and his links to tear gas producers

Maryland Institute College of Art has addressed its admissions policy which refused black students between 1895 and 1954

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This is the first time that an artist collective, and curators from Asia, have been picked to direct the prestigious exhibition

The artist alleges that the Cities of Love franchise cut his section to avoid upsetting the Chinese government ahead of a planned project in Shanghai 

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‘I have told them I would not do it if they take the Sackler money’

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The veteran New York gallerist pleaded guilty to two counts of tax evasion last year

The US artist and her activist group P.A.I.N dropped faux-prescription slips and pill bottles, and staged a ‘die-in’