Art
The Guggenheim Museum’s two days of talks for its “Culture and Its Discontents” event resembled, at its best points, a mediocre rendition of Kum ba yah.
In Brief
A tape recently made public reveals that Bacon was busted by the Chelsea drug squad after a feud with his lover George Dyer.
Art
The rural-chic Hauser & Wirth Somerset has an exhibition that contrasts our idealized expectations of the countryside with the historic realities of agrarian living.
In Brief
The revised bust of the soccer star hopes to quell mockery and redeem the artist in the eyes of soccer fans worldwide.
Art
The photographer reproduces a sense of economic spectacle suffused with an encroaching disbelief in its benefits in his retrospective at the newly renovated Hayward Gallery.
News
Petr Pavlensky fled Russia in 2017, but late last year he was arrested after setting fire to France's central bank. The subsequent legal proceedings have been cloaked in secrecy.
Art
On view at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Rasheed Araeen: A Retrospective illustrates how Rasheed Araeen used art as an arena for testing ideology, exploring the limits of conceptual and political approaches within visual media.
News
On Wednesday, despite a snowstorm, students from the Courtauld Institute and other London art schools took part in a national strike organized by the University and College Union.
Art
The culmination of her residency, Rachal Bradley’s conceptual exhibition, Interlocutor, revolves around low-fi remedies to our high-fi, high-tech institutional ills.
Art
Pieces of the Whitechapel fatberg, which once weighed more than a double-decker bus, are now on view at the Museum of London.
Art
Ryggen's massive allegorical tapestries attest to the artist’s strong condemnation of violence as the world burned through World War II, and later, the Vietnam War.
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Hablik's fantastical and cosmic vision of utopia hinged on the aspirations of a still-emerging industrial age.