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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.
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Artworks Orbiting the Thinking of Hannah Arendt
Eight shows over the course of a year loosely explore the eight chapters of Arendt’s 1968 book, Between Past and Future."
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Gilbert & George, Full of Themselves Again
How should we take all this buffoonery? In part, it looks like satire. But what exactly are they poking fun at?
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London’s Science Museum Faces Backlash Over Oil-Sponsored Climate Exhibition
“By allowing Shell to sponsor this exhibition, the Science Museum is helping to boost the company’s cynical greenwash,” said Jess Worth, co-director of Culture Unstained.
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A Giant Sculpture of Mars Celebrates Perseverance’s Landing
Two scientists from London’s Natural History Museum will be assisting NASA’s team in their research about the potential for past life on Mars.