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Paula Rego’s Animal Farm
To enter Rego’s paintings of the 1980s is to step into a tumbling, chaotic world of animals living out modern human life.
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Sexual Liberation From Pasolini to Bruce LaBruce
LaBruce’s The Visitor shows that physical desire can lead the way to something more as his characters redefine themselves in new, potentially radical ways.
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A Pajama Party That Pauses Time
With Slumber Party, Benoît Piéron transforms the harshness of hospitals into a softer, dream-like space, where time seems flexible.
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An Artist’s Ode to Worms
For artist Tamara Henderson, worms represent a link between life above and beneath the earth’s surface, transforming death and decay into rebirth and growth.
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London Chewing Gum Street Art at Risk of Being Washed Away
Thousands have signed a petition to protect the Millennium Bridge miniatures of artist Ben Wilson, known as "the chewing gum man."
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London Museum Closes After Fatal "Tragic Event"
Police responded to reports of a man falling from a height at Somerset House, where the Courtauld Gallery is located.
Art
Have Britain’s Bad Boys of Art Become an Institution?
With the Gilbert & George Centre, those two-forever-in-one (or one-forever-in-two) living sculptors have made a bid to claim immortality.
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Tate Unveils Chris Ofili Mural Commemorating Grenfell Tower Fire
The monumental work, inspired by the frescoes of Giotto and informed by testimonies from survivors of the fire, will be on display for 10 years.
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The Illicit Allure of Art Forgery
An anarchic desire to undermine the art world’s institutions lends art forgers a roguish, rebellious identity that is both compelling and unsavory.
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Enough With the Pre-Raphaelites Already!
Can we ever get enough of the Pre-Raphaelites, their lives, loves, and art? It seems not.
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A Seance and a Beer With Hilma Af Klint and Piet Mondrian
Today’s audiences are evidently more open to Mondrian and af Klint’s sensibilities than those of their time.