In Space Popular’s presentation at the Sir John Soane’s Museum the VR content does not complement the physical, but widens the gulf between art history and contemporary art making.
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Penny Goring’s Emotional Body Horror
The interplay between bodies and emotions in Goring’s work, and their potential to be transformative, reveals the politics that pump through the artist’s ever-exposed heart.
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Picasso and Ingres Face Off in London
Can two paintings an entire exhibition make? Yes. Especially when it is a Spaniard called Pablo Picasso squaring up to a Frenchman called Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.
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An Artist’s Quasi-Exploration of Celebrity Culture
The Manchester-based artist uses techniques from the Northern Renaissance in an attempt to investigate our present-day celebrity worship.
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The British Museum Takes the Feminism Out of Feminine Power
The realities of women’s lives are conspicuously absent from the British Museum’s Feminine Power, a show about the feminine.
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What Can We Learn from the History of Sleep?
Whether in a 17th-century mansion, an imagined Georgian bedroom, or a contemporary loft, the unconscious experience remains unadulterated.
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Why Do Artists Keep Painting “The Women in the Window”?
The exhibition Reframed: The Woman in the Window explores the acts of looking and being looked at, framing, and art making.
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Artists Who Say They Were Silenced Agree to Six-Figure Settlement With Tate
The settlement comes after Tate prevented an artist who exposed sexual harassment by one of its largest donors from co-curating an exhibition.
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A Show Traces Philip Guston’s Impact on Contemporary Artists
A Thing for the Mind takes Philip Guston’s 1978 painting “Story” as a starting point to examine the myriad ways in which this piece has filtered into the work of other painters.
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Europe’s Extreme Heat Waves Bring Art to a Standstill
A floating art project can’t reach Documenta because the Weser River is too low and museums in the UK shutter galleries to keep workers and collections cool.
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Raphael Between Heaven and Earth
The Renaissance master was boundlessly ambitious and intimidatingly energetic, charming, good-looking, diplomatic, and utterly opportunistic.
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Tanoa Sasraku’s Enigmatic “Earth Photos”
In finding new ways to read and map landscapes, Tanoa Sasraku disrupts our expectations of the rural and opens up latent memories, mythologies, and energies.