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South Asia’s highest exhibition of land art debuts at 12,000 ft in the Himalayas
The site-specific show addresses the ecological crisis facing the Indian region of Ladakh—and, subtly, the politics behind it
Europe's 'first museum dedicated to art by women artists' to open in southern France
Former trader Christian Levett's rebranded institution will present works by Joan Mitchell, Howardena Pindell and Cecily Brown among others
Six books to read this Women In Translation month – recommended by our experts
Mysteries from China, short stories from the Balkans, a French-Morrocan autobiography and more.
Sex toys, rugs and Barbie dolls: does posthumous use of artists’ work risk cheapening their legacies?
Brands love to use the work of late, great artists just as much as late, great artists’ estates like to cash in. But that hasn’t stopped a slew of Succession-size squabbles
‘An exhausted dream’: America faces its twilight – in pictures
Influenced by the paintings of Edward Hopper and the film Vertigo, Gregory Crewdson’s portraits of middle America have a dreamy, cinematic quality
Artist Catalogs: Why You Need Them, What to Include, and How to Use
An artist catalog is physical documentation of your work at a specific moment in time, and all artists should use them. Include these items:
Technique turns maps of lost neighborhoods into possible VR landscapes
Using old insurance fire maps, researchers have enabled a machine-learning system to recreate 3D models of neighborhoods that no longer exist. Not only could the technique lead to VR tours of the 'hoods, but it could help study the economic impact of urbanization.
Injecting Personal Narrative Into Your Art
Will art sell when it's focused on the artist’s personal narrative? I discuss this question with Sara Lee Hughes, how she focuses on the long game, how she keeps her ideas, and the discipline she has to balance motherhood with her studio practice.
35+ Novels With Art and Artists: A List for Your Summer Reading
7 personal recommendations for art-related fiction plus 28 that others have added to the list. Vote and add yours!
Lee Friedlander Framed --by Joel Coen - - Exhibitions - Luhring Augustine
International contemporary as well as late 19th century painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, and video works.
‘You have to create a dream world’: Life in black and white – in pictures
Dutch photographer Bastiaan Woudt’s new solo exhibition offers up monochrome minimalism at its most striking
Friendship, freedom and fragility: the photographer who returns to her teenage years
Beauty and pain coincided for Tajette O’Halloran when she came of age in northern NSW. As an adult she is recreating scenes from her adolescence
Lifesize sculpture of Julian Assange appears outside UK parliament
Bronze of jailed Wikileaks founder fighting extradition to the US flanked by figures of whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning
Rock ‘flour’ from Greenland can capture significant CO2, study shows
Powder produced by ice sheets could be used to help tackle climate crisis when spread on farm fields
Diary Days – Page 31 – Frieda Hughes
A fabulous way to build a Body of Work! Frieda Hughes daily paintings tell the story of each day.
Sylvia Plath's Visual Notes
"As usual I take more time filling up space with crazy drawings."
AI and the future of humanity | Yuval Noah Harari at the Frontiers Forum
Couple with (re-)watching the 2004 Will Smith film: I, Robot.
Gwen John: often dismissed as a timid recluse, this unique and uncompromising artist painted relentlessly on her own terms
Gwen John was very much her own woman and followed her own artistic instincts, producing small, intimate, idiosyncratic paintings that resonate.
Karpathos Island, Greece
A sculpture dedicated to women stands on a hillside near the village of Olympos, home to one of the few matriarchal societies in Greece that resists tourism and lifestyle standardisation. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images
Britain’s ever-harsher welfare system means that now only the rich can afford to make art | Alex Niven
Postwar artists wouldn’t have had a chance without affordable housing or social security, says Alex Niven of Newcastle University
The toxic landscape of colonialism: Venice’s architecture biennale spotlights Africa
Is the era of the elderly white male finally over? This year’s global extravaganza, boasting a Ghanaian-Scottish curator, features a huge number of exhibitors from Africa – and shows its vicious exploitation continues
Ms Marvel, hijabs and harems: female photographers from the Islamic world – in pictures
A new exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art features works by female artists making statements about the political and social changes shaping the lives of women in some of the world’s most restrictive societies
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There’s No One Like Us: highlights from Mous Lamrabat’s photography exhibition
Over a four-month period, Moroccan-Belgian photographer, Mous Lamrabat, photographed and interviewed diasporic communities from over 25 cultures, ranging from Brazil and India to Morocco and Mexico. On display this month at the Tab Centre in London, these portraits and interviews highlight notions of culture and identity in a world beyond cultural divisions
Jennifer Collier: Good on paper - TextileArtist.org
At the heart of Jennifer Collier’s work is a love of experimentation as she explores what is possible – and...
Why the Turner Prize shortlist is a cultural barometer of our political times
From the shock tactics of 90s artists starved of public funding to a pivot towards an art based in community and activism today.
The great Alice Neel: 'I wanted to paint as a woman, but not as the oppressive, power-mad world thought a woman should paint'
Neel’s attention to the sensuous human subject, irrespective but mindful of race, gender, status and sexuality, was rare and undervalued, yet now seems prophetic.
Christiana Morgan: Her Invisible Life
This is a beautifully written biography of an extraordinary woman, who, as the author puts it, “remains at most a footnote in other people’s history.” She was a prominent patient …
The Art of TIM BURTON
Turns out Tim Burton is much more than a film director....