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.
London
News
It Took Three Hours to Unglue Protesters From Van Gogh Frame
Two climate activists from Just Stop Oil were found guilty of criminal damage after gluing themselves to the 18th-century frame at the Courtauld Gallery.
Art
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.
Art
A Joyous Carnival to Celebrate David Graeber's Lasting Legacy
Artists gathered for the launch of the new David Graeber Institute, which will oversee the scholar’s archive of unpublished texts and pursue projects around climate change, debt, labor, and war.
Art
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.
News
Climate Protester Who Souped Van Gogh Artwork Speaks Out
In a viral clip, 21-year-old activist Phoebe Plummer defended the protest and slammed the British government's inaction on climate change.
Opinion
The Van Gogh Is Fine; You Won't Be
The real target of Just Stop Oil's tomato soup action wasn’t Van Gogh's painting. It was our complacency.
News
Climate Activists Go Warhol on Van Gogh, Splashing “Sunflowers” With Tomato Soup
The work, which is behind glass at London’s National Gallery, was part of Just Stop Oil’s latest protest action.
News
Activists Crash British Museum Opening to Protest Egypt's Political Prisoners
The anti-fuel group Culture Unstained criticized the museum’s connections to British Petroleum and its silence on the imprisonment of Egyptian political critic Alaa Abd El-Fattah.
Opinion
King Charles Wants to Make Britain "Beautiful" Again
The British monarch and Donald Trump have both tried to impose neoclassical architecture on their countries — and one of them actually succeeded.
Art
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.
News
London's V&A Museum Finally Drops the Sackler Name
But a museum in Harvard is still named after a member of the disgraced family, notorious for its role in the opioid crisis.