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The Private Passions of Henry Fuseli
Fuseli and the Modern Woman is immensely pleasurable for the technical facility of an artist pursuing his own personal interests in an incredibly idiosyncratic style.
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The Pleasures and Pain of Carolee Schneemann's Body Politics
Schneemann's art actions laid bare the continuity between the female body, feminist writing, and sociopolitical acts of protest.
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Only 8% of UK Artists Come From Working-Class Background
A new study making waves in the UK finds that people from low-income backgrounds are less likely to become artists — but that’s always been the case.
Art
What Freedom Looks Like for Incarcerated Artists
Koestler Arts works with incarcerated people and patients in secure mental health units, aiming to improve their lives through creativity.
Art
Adrian Ghenie and the Soup of Fame
Ghenie's paintings of Marilyn Monroe are a relentless representation of a howling, turbulent tragedy, a face broken into crude sideways slewings and gougings and gorgings of paint.
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Carnival and Colonialism Converge in Hew Locke's The Procession
Locke's stunning, sensuous spectacle of pattern and color, just like the grand tradition of Caribbean carnivals, hints at sinister elements that undergird the whole endeavor.
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The V&A Wanted to Subvert Toxic Masculinity but Ended Up Reinforcing It
The exhibition Fashioning Masculinities lets men have their cake and eat it too.
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The Politics of the Air We Breathe
Inspired by Charles Babbage’s idea of air as “atmospheric memory,” In the Air considers air as a common space that belongs to and affects the whole of humanity.
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Is It Possible to Enjoy Cornelia Parker’s Works Without Her Words?
Parker's stories bring so many of her works alive, give them meaning, and make us warm to her and to them. Is that a problem?
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How Disney Animation Provides a Gateway to Understanding Rococo
So closely do Disney's animators assimilate the sensibility of French design that on occasion their source material appears almost more Disney than Disney itself.
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A Missed Opportunity to Bring an Eccentric Museum to Life With VR
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.