Art
Jean Dubuffet’s Highs and (Controversial) Lows
Curiously, Dubuffet’s anti-hierarchical approach to art did not translate to similar views on society.
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Art
JR, Down the Barrel of the Camera
This is a public, political art that invites us to see the world differently, and even encourage the spirit of community.
News
Newly Unveiled Princess Diana Sculpture Prompts Criticism
The larger-than-life statue shows the late princess surrounded by three children.
News
Artist-Activists Arrested at “Cut the Crap” Protests in London
Extinction Rebellion cheekily called the action at Daily Mail offices its "Submission for the 2021 Turner Prize."
Art
In Intricate Weavings, Igshaan Adams Maps South Africa’s Tangled Histories
Adams’s weavings are the kind that demand to be stood directly in front of, for you to hunker down on your knees, or crane your neck at all angles.
News
Climate Activists Occupy London’s Science Museum to Protest Shell Sponsorship
During the two-day protests, activists explained that they “won’t stand by and let the Science Museum green-wash Shell’s reputation.”
Art
What to Make of Nero?
An exhibition takes on the notorious Roman emperor, from gleaming marble to roaring flames.
Art
Sanya Kantarovsky’s Truth-Bearing Fantasy
Kantarovsky’s paintings unveil reality as a fabrication whose true form is instability and transience.
Art
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.
Art
Standing Inside Yayoi Kusama’s Mind
How much of the effect is the object reflected, or the reflection of the object?
News
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.