Artists and cultural workers are withdrawing their work from the Zabludowicz Collection “in solidarity with Palestinian liberation.”
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Over 100 Unpublished Hokusai Drawings Resurface in New Exhibition
Created nearly 200 years ago for the artist’s unpublished The Great Picture Book of Everything, the works will go on view at the British Museum.
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Unraveling Rodin’s Artistic Mystique
A corrective to the sculptor’s self-aggrandizing, The Making of Rodin draws attention to the hidden figures who made his work possible.
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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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Newly Unveiled Princess Diana Sculpture Prompts Criticism
The larger-than-life statue shows the late princess surrounded by three children.
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Veronica Ryan’s Botanical Musings on Migration
For the Montserrat-born artist, seeds are both a metaphor for and a physical continuation of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora.
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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.
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Exploring Fraught Histories at the Liverpool Biennial
Particularly well incorporated into the city’s everyday, the biennial’s latest edition attempts to grapple with Liverpool’s colonial past.
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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.”
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Stained Glass Portrait by Kehinde Wiley Lights Up a UK Cathedral
Wiley’s stained glass panels swap out the religious figures for contemporary Black subjects.
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Spilled Milk and Other Acts of Protest Visualize the Politics of Food Production
Inspired by the farmers’ protests Rafael Pérez Evans witnessed as a child in Spain, the works in Handful draw attention to the deliberate wedges driven between producer and consumer.
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Portrait of Anti-Nazi Gynecologist Is Acquired by Two UK Institutions
The painting is the first artwork to be allocated to multiple museums under a British law.