Man With a Tankard, by Frans van Mieris the Younger (1739).
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Historically, baldness was treated with neutrality, as a regular part of daily life. Ancient Egyptians had different balding hairstyles
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Critics will say that immersive exhibitions destroy art but Hockney is ready to challenge them with his hour-long show
Pam Longobardi amid a giant heap of fishing gear that she and volunteers from the Hawaii Wildlife Fund collected in 2008.
David Rothstein
Pam Longobardi collects and documents ocean plastic waste and transforms it into public art and photography. Her work makes statements about consumption, globalism and conservation.
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Toxic , pictured right, is inspired by the American cartoon and denounces the violence of American society.
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In the age of the Black Lives Matter movement, Basquiat’s work is more relevant than ever. It highlights racial inequality and violence against racialized people.
Does the moment of imagination carry more value than the work of making something real?
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The technology’s focus on the framing of the artistic task amounts to the fetishization of the creative moment – and devalues the journey that waters the seed of an idea to its fruition.
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Bringing colour and emotional depth, Baunbach’s adaptation is a good companion to DeLillo’s searing novel.
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You can set up a studio space on the dining table or the floor. One way to encourage your child to begin creating is to place freshly sharpened pencils in a jar.
The Wellcome Collection gallery in central London.
William Barton
Closing racist exhibitions is a good step, but it doesn’t go far enough to decolonise our museums – an expert explains.
Adrian Paci’s Centro di Permanenza Temporanea.
Adrian Paci
From plane stairs that lead nowhere to paintings of empty towns, these artists depict the experience of Albanian immigrants.
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Lensa is the new AI digital artist you can keep in your pocket. Its ‘creations’ have taken over Twitter and Instagram – but the reception has been mixed.
Many NFT creators come from a practice of 3D modelling, graphic design, animation or video game design.
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Creators of NFT art are organizing themselves into new art scenes, but they are still searching for cultural legitimacy while museums remain skittish.
Archaeology students and ULAS staff from University of Leicester carefully clean the fully exposed Trojan War mosaic.
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Rutland’s Roman villa caused a media storm when it was first discovered in 2020 – now researchers have returned to uncover even more surprises.
Hockney’s 25th of June 2022, Looking at the Flowers (Framed).
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Hockney’s 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures depict joy in the humdrum of domesticity.
Raf Simons walks the runway for his Calvin Klein Collection during New York Fashion Week 2018.
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As an expert in fashion marketing, I see nothing to mourn in Raf Simons’s decision to close his eponymous label – here’s why.
One of Banksy’s murals in Borodyanka.
Sergey Dolzhenko
Banksy has unveiled six new works in Ukraine, created on the walls of bombed buildings.
Police officers patrol the entrance of the Tate Modern gallery, in London, Oct. 15, 2022, after climate protesters threw soup over glass covering Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ in London’s National Gallery.
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Climate protesters are destabilizing the idea that public galleries are safe spaces for works of art, held in public trust.
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Ghana’s national museum has been reopened after being closed for seven years.
Brion Gysin and William Burroughs with the Dreamachine, 1972.
Charles Gatewood
Flickering light can make people see different colours and shapes or feel altered emotions or sense of time.
An example of the rock art created by young Samburu men.
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Instead of displaying myths, Samburu rock art reveals real-life stories and is made as a leisure activity.
A poster with a drawing of Marge Simpson cutting her hair in support of Iranian women, by aleXsandro Palombo, at a demonstration in London.
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Through different works and artists who have worked with hair we can understand what having control over one’s own hair implies for female identities.