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The Artist Who Cast a Cold Gaze on Flowers
Van Huysum's are not paintings of flowers in all their transience, but flowers of the curious Now, in all their splendid, bullish brilliance.
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Gavin Jantjes’s Soft Songs From Exile
Since being forced to leave South Africa for critiquing Apartheid, the artist has worked from afar to shed light on Black struggles for equality.
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Tavares Strachan Complicates What It Means to Be a “Pioneer”
The artist tells the stories of unsung people of color who played key roles in crucial events of Euro-American culture, including exploitative and colonialist endeavors.
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What Adults Can Learn From Children’s Games
In his latest exhibition, artist Francis Alÿs points to the powerful potential of play to bring people together.
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Could Banksy’s New Goat Mural in London Be a Palestine Symbol?
Stenciled silhouettes of a Nubian Ibex on a ledge and two elephants in windowsills raised questions about the elusive street artist's messaging.
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London Art Institute Workers Say They Were Fired for Supporting Palestine
Artist Rheim Alkadhi said she'll withdraw her solo show if the organization fails to respond to the allegations with "disclosure and accountability."
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A Close Look at Caravaggio’s Last Painting
Just two paintings are in The Last Caravaggio, both in perplexed mourning over their subject matter, and both emerging from dark places.
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Of Monkeys and Men
Michaël Borremans’s paintings seem to display a pitiless, if not forbidding, irony, almost studiedly cruel in their level of dispassion.
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Animal Rights Activists Target New King Charles Portrait
The action was in protest of allegations against the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, where King Charles III is a patron.
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Two Pioneering Photographers’ Versions of Femininity
A joint exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery makes clear the force of Francesca Woodman’s authorial voice and Julia Margaret Cameron’s radicality.
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Thomas Carlyle, a Chronically Constipated Racist
Hidden in the bowels of the London Library, a 19th-century pamphlet contains its founder’s most bigoted views.
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Yinka Shonibare’s Patterns of Decolonization
In a gallery such as Serpentine, defined by both Britishness and blue-chip status in the art world, how much can categories be suspended?