During the two-day protests, activists explained that they “won’t stand by and let the Science Museum green-wash Shell’s reputation.”
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What to Make of Nero?
An exhibition takes on the notorious Roman emperor, from gleaming marble to roaring flames.
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Sanya Kantarovsky’s Truth-Bearing Fantasy
Kantarovsky’s paintings unveil reality as a fabrication whose true form is instability and transience.
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A Flawed Retrospective for a Surrealist Rebel
There is so much information handed to us in the exhibition, Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy that we risk forgetting what we might think if we came fresh to a painting.
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Standing Inside Yayoi Kusama’s Mind
How much of the effect is the object reflected, or the reflection of the object?
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Toga-clad Activists Crashed British Museum’s Reopening to Protest Oil Sponsorship
BP or Not BP? activists staged a protest against Big Oil sponsorship at the British Museum and Science Museum this weekend.
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Jennifer Packer’s Lucid Tributes to Black Life
In Packer’s canvases, swathes of abstraction express aspects of human experience that lie beyond representation.
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600+ Artists and Organizations Urge Boycott of Zabludowicz Art Trust Over Israel Ties
Hundreds have signed a letter denouncing Poju Zabludowicz’s ties to a pro-Israel lobby and the Israeli Air Force.
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“Salmon” Pink and Other Relics of Pre-Industrial Agriculture
As the Turner Prize-nominated duo Cooking Sections forcefully reveals, it’s not just salmon that are changing color due to harmful agricultural techniques.
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Rachel Whiteread’s White Blight
Whiteread has made two full-size structures over the course of the lockdown that suggest a candid act of emotional unburdening.
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Turner Prize Nominee Accuses Tate of “Exploitative Practices”
Black Obsidian Sound System criticized Tate’s alleged censorship of a Black artist and the ongoing struggles of its workers.
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How Lee Miller Cast Her Surrealist Eye on British Vogue
Miller didn’t plan to photograph gowns and handbags as bombs rained from London’s skies.