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The Golden Age of Spanish Modern Art

02/07/2020

Colnaghi, London, present a survey of painting by Spanish artists of the late 19th and 20th centuries....

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Soho House Announce Inaugural Art Prize

01/07/2020

The prize winner will receive the funds to realise and present a major solo showcase at Soho Beach House Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2020. ...

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Paintings Showing First Gay Kiss in UK Theatre Acquired for the Nation

30/06/2020

Leonard Rosoman’s paintings of John Osborne's 1965 play A Patriot for Me shine light on a stage production that was an important chapter in LGBTQ+ history....

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British Art Show 9: List of Artists and New Dates

29/06/2020

Hayward Gallery Touring announce the artists for British Art Show 9, now opening in Wolverhampton in March 2021 and touring to Aberdeen, Plymouth and Manchester....

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Petr Davydtchenko

Petr Davydtchenko Eats Live Bat in Big Pharma Protest

26/06/2020

According to a spokesman, the video shows the performance artist eating a bat that was procured from a cave in the south of France....

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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House (The Street), 1888

Van Gogh and Gauguin Brothel Letter Sells for €210,000

17/06/2020

The letter will be part of an exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum this October entitled Your Loving Vincent: Van Gogh’s Greatest Letters....

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Angela Davis and Erich Honecker

Radical Black Resistance

16/06/2020

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, a new show explores the impact of Angela Davis' visit to East Germany in 1972. ...

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StoryFutures Academy Funds VR Violence

12/06/2020

Shola Amoo's new virtual reality work re-contextualises the notion of violence, by examining it through the lens of state oppression against marginalised and subaltern groups....

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Study Suggests Brain Unable to Distinguish Digital Reproduction of an Artwork From the Real Thing

10/06/2020

Analysis found the differences in brain activity were insignificant, suggesting the aesthetic experience is not denigrated by being filtered through AR and VR....

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Sadiq Khan to Review “The Diversity of London’s Public Landmarks”

09/06/2020

Statues of slavers could be pulled down under the mayor’s new diversity plan, which will include historians as well as arts, council and community leaders. ...

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Ernest Hemingway

Unknown Hemingway Story Published for First Time

03/06/2020

"Pursuit As Happiness" will be included in a new edition of The Old Man and the Sea, which was originally written in 1951....

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Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk’s Home Computer Gets Video Makeover

02/06/2020

The video incorporates elements previously used by Kraftwerk, including an animation of a computer, taken from the cover image of their classic 1981 album, Computer World....

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Ai Weiwei Creates 10,000 Masks in Aid of Coronavirus Charities

29/05/2020

Humanitarian groups will receive income from the artist-activist's artful masks, some of which bear a defiant middle finger....

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Kent Monkman, Hanky Panky, 2020

Kent Monkman Apologises for Controversial Justin Trudeau Painting

27/05/2020

Following outcries against the work on social media, the Cree artist says that the image 'failed' in its message to address the victimisation of indigenous women....

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Gorillaz Almanac

Gorillaz Celebrate 20-Year Visual History With Graphic Annual

26/05/2020

The Gorillaz Almanac, published by Z2 Comics, will feature 120-plus full-colour pages of Jamie Hewlett’s artwork for the band....

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UK’s Specialist Arts TV Channel Saved From the Chop

22/05/2020

Critics say the new strategy means BBC Four will become a home for repeats with less investment in arts programming....

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Nevada Museum of Art Acquires Judy Chicago’s Full Fireworks Archive

20/05/2020

The archive contains thousands of photographs, digital images and other materials related to the artist-activist's site-specific works involving coloured smoke and fireworks from 1967 to the present....

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UK Galleries Mount Virtual Shows on Lockdown Using New Digital Tool

19/05/2020

Art UK's Curations initiative enables 'anyone anywhere with internet access' to create an exhibition using the national image database....

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Submissions Open for Isolation Mastered

15/05/2020

A committee will make their selections based on whose work presents an innovative dialogue with this isolation period....

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Biosphere 2 - Kathelin Gray

Spaceship Hype: Global Stakes Trapped in Story

07/05/2020

Usually the truth is weirder than the hype, but in this case the truth is realer than the reality. Spaceship Earth a documentary on Biosphere 2....

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Leading Writers Take Up ‘Darkness Residencies’ for Art Project

06/05/2020

Bernardine Evaristo, Max Porter and Raymond Antrobus rise to artist Sam Winston’s challenge in A Delicate Sight to submit to time in blackout....

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Cache of Russian Avant-Garde Works Surfaces in Basement

05/05/2020

Art historian Andrey Sarabyanov is planning a new exhibition of forgotten pieces by Kandinsky, Rodchenko and Stepanova....

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Revealing the Creative World of the City of London

25/04/2020

A photography commission goes behind the scenes across the City of London to reveal its untold stories, hidden gems, and undiscovered creative champions....

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Whitechapel Gallery Launches Artists’ Film International Programme

25/04/2020

Language is the common theme for this year's AFI programme, with every artist's film using language to intensify place. ...

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Earth Day Prompts First Ever Global Stealth Street Art Event

25/04/2020

For the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, more than 500 artists bring passion and protest to the first ever global stealth street art event....

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UK Science Museum Group Building Coronavirus Collection

25/04/2020

Curators are amassing material and considering how to “collect important objects on behalf of the nation as a record of the medical, scientific and cultural responses to the outbreak”....

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Looted Benin Art Treasures to Go Online

17/04/2020

The project will unite pieces from the former kingdom of Benin that were spread around the world after being looted by British troops....

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Oldest Ever Piece of String Made by Neanderthals

10/04/2020

The discovery suggests that Neanderthals knew how to make cords, and raises the question of whether modern humans learned some of their skills from Neanderthals....

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The Other Art Fair Presents Online Studios

09/04/2020

In partnership with online art gallery Saatchi Art, Online Studios will roll out city-specific features in line with the original spring fair schedule....

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