The French painter felt he had to rise to the challenge of one question above all things else: What exactly is it to be a modern artist?
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Soheila Sokhanvari Honors Iran’s Feminist Rebels
Born in Shiraz, Sokhanvari fled Iran as a child a year before the Revolution and has devoted her artistic practice to the country she left behind.
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British Museum Workers Announce One-Week Strike
The action could disrupt public access to the museum as workers campaign for higher wages and better labor conditions.
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Trump Baby Blimp Flies Again
Specialists inflated the protest artwork as part of conservation testing at the Museum of London.
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Guglielmo Castelli the Melancholic Painter
The Italian artist speaks with Hyperallergic about his home city of Turin, the loneliness of his characters, and more.
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UK Natural History Museum Signed “Gag Clause” With Energy Giant
The London Museum of Natural History agreed not to “discredit or damage” the reputation of Danish energy giant Ørsted, contracts show.
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How Great Was Lucian Freud, Really?
Would it be ridiculous to suggest that Freud lacks nobility or generosity, or even that his pessimism reduces him?
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London Museum Drops $3.5M on Public Toilet
The loo in question is a former Victorian lavatory that could become one of the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition spaces.
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The Wondrously Defiant Art of Contemporary Ceramics
Strange Clay at the Hayward Gallery demonstrates the conceptual and technical innovation of contemporary ceramics with riotously joyful art.
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British Museum Pledges “Net-Zero Carbon” Despite Big Oil Funding
It’s unclear whether the London institution will renew its contract with the oil and gas giant British Petroleum when it expires in 2023.
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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.