Opinion
LONDON — Much of the Brexit debate has focused on questions of economy, immigration, and security, which will be most impacted by the decision. But little has been said of the arts — one of the most multicultural industries in Britain today.
Art
In a small, über-blue chip stretch of 21st Street in Chelsea, three adjacent galleries are concurrently running exhibitions that feature a series of monumental art pieces that move between refined, processed, man-made materiality to earthen structures, and plant life that grows from the soil.
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In Brief
Anish Kapoor now owns the exclusive rights to the world's darkest material — a claim that, naturally, is pissing off other artists.
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NEW DELHI — On October 27 the Indian news site Scroll published a letter signed by over 300 artists that expresses support for the more than 40 writers who have returned their state awards over the past month as a form of protest against the increasingly intolerant environment in India for minoritie
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Anish Kapoor’s "Dirty Corner" (2011–15) sculpture in the gardens of Palace of Versailles has been vandalized again but this time with offensive words, including anti-Semitic slurs.
In Brief
Officials in Karamay, China, have not announced plans to remove a blatant copy of Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" that opens to the public this month, which means "Cloud Gate"–gate is far from over.
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Yesterday we noticed that a copy of Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" in Chicago is in the works in Karamay, China, promoted as a giant, stainless steel drop of oil.
In Brief
An immense sculpture in China is nearing completion, and it bears a striking resemblance to Chicago's most famous work of public art.
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This week, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London announced that "the world's longest and tallest tunnel slide" will wrap around Anish Kapoor's "ArcelorMittal Orbit."
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Between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning vandals sprayed yellow paint on Anish Kapoor's sculpture "Dirty Corner" (2011–15), the centerpiece of his current exhibition at Versailles and a work the artist recently likened to "the vagina of the queen."
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PARIS — Feminism has happily challenged the given of the privileged male in relationship to the female model and forced a re-evaluation of a visual culture that viewed the world from a white heterosexual male perspective.
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This week in art news: Anish Kapoor storms Versailles, PJ Harvey turns her music into public art, and the Broad Museum's façade is revealed to be very disappointing.