Category: News

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Saturday Cartoon by Alex Brenchley 2018

Observations from the Gallery: Signs of Collapse

25/08/2018

Saturday Cartoon by Alex Brenchley 2018...

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South London Gallery Fire Station Coming Soon

24/08/2018

The South London Gallery will open the former Peckham Road Fire Station as a new contemporary arts space and annexe to the main site on 22 September....

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How The Brain Suppresses The Act Of Revenge

22/08/2018

Researchers have identified the location in the brain of activations that are related to the suppression of the act of revenge as the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. ...

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Censored Queer Art Show Reopens To Record-Breaking Crowds In Rio

21/08/2018

The exhibition was revived thanks to one of the country’s biggest crowdfunding campaigns, which raised more than $250,000....

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Is the Classic Rock sound making a comeback?

20/08/2018

Lancastrian Rockers Massive Wagons charge the charts with new release 'Full Nelson'...

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Terrorism Fears Curbing Children’s Cultural Visits

17/08/2018

London galleries in particular were hit hard last year, as schoolchildren admissions fell for the fourth consecutive year....

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Liberal Democracy and Freedom of Expression

17/08/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;C/dropcaplinton Stanley Jr. has been denied access to his school upon the day of his enrolment because he wears his hair in dread locks. Is this a...

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Ditch The Bling If You Want To Make New Pals

15/08/2018

According to new research, when it comes to making friends, status symbols actually repel people from making friends with us....

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Chelsea Manning In First UK Appearance

14/08/2018

Chelsea Manning to be honoured at this year’s annual Friends of the Institute of Contemporary Arts dinner, marking her first public appearance in the uk....

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Losing Religion For Photography

14/08/2018

Artist and musician Michael Stipe will join writer and critic Miranda Sawyer in conversation at the Institute of Contemporary Arts for the launch of Stipe’s photography book, Volume 1....

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The Genius That is Boris Johnson

09/08/2018

Sky News Poll dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;B/dropcaporis Johnson’s latest contrarian contribution pulls out of focus some features of our modern democracy. And whilst his...

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China Changing Festival Returns for Grand Finale

08/08/2018

Southbank Centre’s China Changing Festival celebrating innovative contemporary Chinese culture returns with a packed four-day programme for its grand finale....

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Mind Over Matter: Putting Thought in its Place

06/08/2018

Mind and Brain dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;W/dropcaphenever we think about thinking, we think about mind. It is a common commendation to say of someone that he or she has a good...

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Revenge For Jellyfish Victims

01/08/2018

Scientists have shown for the first time that corals can cooperate to capture and devour jellyfish which are swept against the walls by ocean currents....

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Exclusive: Who Are P ^ S S E N G E R S?

30/07/2018

Deep in the bowels of Lancashire, something stirs. Who are P ^ S S E N G E R S ("Passengers") and what do they want from honest, hard working people like you and me?...

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Contemporary Artists’ Drawings at The Drawing Room

27/07/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;W/dropcaphy do drawings matter? Commenting on his education as an artist at The Slade School of Fine Art in the seventies, restaurant critic, tv...

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A New Figurative Art

27/07/2018

Presenting a large number of iconic works, this exhibition explores a crucial phase of Italian art history that remains little-known outside its native country. ...

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Is Facebook Perpetuating Existing Social Inequalities?

25/07/2018

New analysis helps to explain the ways that Facebook, and likely all social media, are not representative of the broader population....

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YZ: Street Artist Makes Image for New French Stamps

20/07/2018

President Macron has selected an image for a new set of French stamps designed by YZ, a Franco-British street artist whose work celebrates strong women....

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Cured Meats Found to Exacerbate Bipolar Disorder

18/07/2018

An analysis of more than 1,000 people with and without psychiatric disorders has shown that nitrates in processed meats may contribute to manic episodes....

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Aftermath, Art In Troubled Times

17/07/2018

The art of the inter war period is strangely relevant, brutality, banality and morons everywhere. ...

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First prize winner of the John Moores Painting Prize 2018

13/07/2018

The winner of the prestigious first prize in 2018 is Jacqui Hallum with her painting King and Queens of Wands....

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Evolution, Religion and Art

12/07/2018

Little has changed in the stand-off between religion and science, we might be tempted to think....

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The Game of Deception Detection

11/07/2018

The most adept deceivers often don't present signs, impeding the average observer's ability to tell when someone is lying. Those detection skills can be improved with one hour of training....

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Is The Trump Blimp a Guaranteed Backfire?

10/07/2018

A grotesque caricature will be flying into London and another flying over it. ...

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The Unbearable Blindness of Theology and Science

05/07/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;F/dropcapurther to ‘Philosophy and the God of Bleak Things,’ the  abstracts of two new research papers appear in Improbable Research. The papers...

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Cosmic Crash by Sausage

04/07/2018

An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient and dramatic head-on collision between the Milky Way and a smaller object, dubbed the Sausage galaxy. ...

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Exposing The Extreme Centre

03/07/2018

While concerns regarding extremists are important they do obscure the real core of power a machine that requires more than finger wagging and posturing to counter it....

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Miyako Narita’s Photography at Flowers

03/07/2018

Miyako Narita works in fine art photography, video and music. Her photography was on show in Cork Street last week. Flowers Gallery held the 24th edition of Artist of the Day, a West End exhibition...

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Philosophy and The God of Bleak Things

01/07/2018

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;A/dropcap Russian Oligarch has written a philosophy book he hopes will turn out to be a best seller, writes Matthew Moore, Media Correspondent in The...

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