Ai Weiwei with his Forever Sculpture in 2015.
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Philosophers of art have, at times, entertained quite seriously the claim that art can come to an end.
Marina Abramović in a promotional image for the Marina Abramović Longevity Method.
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Abramović’s foray into the wellness industry is not particularly surprising. As of 2024, she positions herself as an artist-life-coach.
The Art Gallery of Ontario and the Royal Ontario Museum are among art institutions that have struggled with responses to the Israel-Hamas war. The Art Gallery of Ontario seen in Toronto in 2008.
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Especially in a time when trust in political leaders and institutions wanes, arts leaders, patrons, policymakers and artists face daunting but critical questions about the value and role of artists.
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I want to help people without prior knowledge of art history write about issues that affect them – through the prism of an artwork.
Does the simple fact of being in contact with art have any specific effects?
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Can a trip to a museum help cure mental dullness? Here’s what the science has to say.
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Scotland has lost a wonderful writer and artist in the Paisley-born artist.
Bosphorus, by artist Refik Anadol, incorporates machine learning: a type of AI.
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Artists have embraced AI despite the risks to them, educators could learn from their example.
A Palestinian boy climbs on a painted wall in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City in 2015.
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When people find themselves displaced from their homes, finding or creating beauty can be just as vital as food, water and shelter − and serves as a form of resistance and resilience.
The Hesitant Fiancée by Auguste Toulmouche (1866).
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Why this 1866 painting by French artist Auguste Toulmouche has become an online sensation.
The music room of the Ospedaletto is known for its remarkable acoustics.
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On the wall of an orphanage in Venice, a musicologist encountered a fresco featuring an aria written for an opera. She’s since embarked on a project to bring this forgotten music back.
The Rokeby Venus was slashed by a Suffragette and was chosen by Just Stop Oil for this reason.
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The group of climate activists are drawing on a history of public action to show that what they are doing is not new at all
A Picasso showing at Southeby’s Frieze week exhibition.
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Fame for artists has become less about the individual and more about their place with the large commercial art world ecosystem.
A girl dressed as a ‘catrina’ takes part in the Catrinas Parade in Mexico City to celebrate Day of the Dead.
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An obscure Mexican engraver named José Guadalupe Posada created the satirical skull in the early 1900s and sold it for a penny. But after he died, it took on a life of its own.
Portraits on show at the exhibition, in the centre is Laceta Reid,
painted by Serge Attukwei Clottey.
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The portraits hold up a mirror to a society that has underappreciated the Windrush generation for far too long.
Thoughts become works of art in this engineering class.
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Art and science combine in this engineering course to let students turn their brainwaves into creative works.
Banksy has a team of lawyers and art dealers who make sure that the Banksy name is only ever associated with authentic Banksys.
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The scale of his work and the control he has over his brand suggests that Banksy is not just one man anymore.
Painting, Smoking, Eating by Philip Guston (1973).
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Guston’s complex engagement with racialised evil caused a contentious three-year delay in the exhibition opening.
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The Modern, a debut novel centred on an Australian researcher at New York’s MoMA, muses on modern art and relationships – riffing off MoMA artists like Grace Hartigan and Nan Goldin.
The artist’s rendering of a radiolarian, a protozoa that forms part of zooplankton and possesses a skeleton-type structure.
Jo Berry
Artistic representations of scientific imaging can help illuminate complex ideas and help bring this knowledge to a wider audience.
Imponderabilia at the RA.
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Abramović is the first woman in the Royal Academy of Arts’ history to have a solo retrospective in its main galleries.