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“The young women were unusual for stopping. Most of the museum’s visitors passed through the gallery oblivious. “A few game tourists glanced vainly in guidebooks or hopefully at wall labels, as if learning that one or another of these sculptures
“Just when the withering economy is shrinking art, antiques and design sales, there is a rise in attendance and interest in historic homes and artist sites in both the US and the UK. “There is definitely something in the air,
“Visitors to the German capital over recent days may well have felt transported back to the heady weeks following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Then, amid icy winds, blizzards and an inimitable spirit of euphoria, 117 artists from 21
Ensor’s Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring (1891), at MoMA “The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor. This avant-garde painter’s decisive moment came in a salon show in Brussels in 1887 (the same year the gods had
Sand art by Andres Amador
“With a normal photograph, you look at the scene you want to record, check your light meter (or more typically, let the camera do it), then press the shutter release. With these pictures, David Malin says, the process is back
CHRISTOPH GRUNENBERG In 1951 you did a number of paintings with random arrangements of bright colours. These works, in particular Colors for a Large Wall (1951), were a radical departure from your previous, mostly figurative paintings and from the collages
Scientific police photographs are very rarely presented to the public, remaining stored for many years in confidential files because they transgress taboos when their subjects are violent death and crime.
“As a public experiment, artist Julia Burns (alias: ‘rose_burns’) decided to blog on twitter in full view of the lunchtime crowd in Martin Place, Sydney, for one hour. She sat on her living room couch, wearing ugg boots and a
“Leading Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s activism has finally provoked the Chinese authorities to act against him. His studio is being staked out by plainclothes police, and last month the artist’s popular blog on Sina.com was deleted, as well as his