The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
Chic’s bandleader and the Last Dinner Party are among the curators selecting from the 90,000+ items in the late star’s archive to go on display when the new London venue opens in SeptemberFrom the Thierry Mugler suit he got married in to his costumes from the Ziggy Stardu...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
Fans say opening of museum honouring Hector Guimard, whose work went out of fashion, will right a historic wrongThe “forgotten” designer of Paris’s most iconic Métro station entrances and art nouveau buildings is to be given his rightful place in the city’s history with a...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
The Whitworth, ManchesterThe Peruvian artist paints hybrid creatures, rocks with eyes and fish brandishing spears in a shamanistic celebration of his home and his people – but also the terrifying colonial horrors inflicted upon themS...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
Modern abstract painting from the Dreamtime, a ceramic deep dive into a Tudor power struggle and a celebration of body art – all in your weekly dispatch...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
Long-planned, £187,000 tribute to women who worked in shirt factories is criticised as too abstract and inaccurateAfter decades of debate over how to honour the women who used to work in the city’s shirt factories, Derry has produced a sculpture of three giant spools of t...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
Critics warn a corporate-style risk framework could stifle creativity and call for a renewed commitment to artistic independence...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Paintings in parliament | Keighley’s finest | Taking the water | Spot the lawnmowerThe painting of Wellington meeting Blücher by Daniel Maclise in the Royal Gallery shows the scene after the battle of Waterloo and not, as John Crace (...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Winner of the Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award, the South African documentary photographer and filmmaker focuses her photo essay on daily life inside a former public hospital that has been occupied since 2017 by more than 1,500 people resisting displacement ...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
David Hourigan has made tiny versions of the Tote, the Espy and many more down to the cigarette butts and band posters, wanting to ‘preserve these before they disappear’It’s a tiny subject, but a big question: why are humans innately drawn to miniatures? Is it something a...
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The Guardian » 2 weeks ago
Towers of Babel | Art criticism | Trusting a man with a beard | Beards at the border | Cows in the heatYour article (Turn empty London office ...
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