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Jeremy Deller has come a long way since his first solo show, curated on the sly at his parents' house — and he has never been afraid to hit close to the bone. The 2004 Turner Prize winner came to prominence with the "Battle of Orgreave" (2001), the re-...
The ’60s marked a cultural coup for the disenchanted children of the prim and proper ’50s. Dresses became shorter and tighter. Miniskirts revealed more skin. Young people turned to counterculture as a form of rebellion, beginning the decade with the bowl...
Beauty often goes hand-in-hand with impermanence. New York-based Chinese artist Cui Fei takes this to an extreme with her current project for the Museum of Arts and Design’s exhibition “Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design.” For...
An early Picasso painting, which has been publically displayed in Britain since 1974, is to be sold at Christie's if no public museum or gallery comes forward and bid for it in the next three months."Child with a Dove" (1901) was painted by the Spaniard in...
WHAT: Kehinde Wiley’s “The World Stage: Israel”WHEN: March 9-July 29, Sunday-Tuesday 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Thursday 11:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m., Friday 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m.-5:45 p.m.
WHERE: The Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Avenue at 92nd Street, New...
Premier and Minister for the Arts Ted Baillieu today announced the appointment of Mr Tony Ellwood as the new Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, and the re-appointment of Mr Allan Myers AO QC as President of the NGV Council of Trustees.Mr Baillieu...
Antonio Manfredi is a man desperate for attention. Last winter, with the woes of the financial crisis weighing heavily on Italy’s cultural sector, he sent an open letter to German chancellor Angela Merkel, in which he wrote that the cash-strapped museum...
Leonardo da Vinci’s relationship with fashion became evident in January when Florentine fashion house Gherardini produced one of the polymath’s nearly-forgotten handbag designs. Now Italian fashion house Salvatore Ferragamo is helping...
The 2012 Whitney Biennial has the usual professional polish (see our review here), but behind the immaculately arranged galleries lurks a messier, more human reality. What really makes this year’s exhibition is not the curatorial concept, but the...
In the 1960s, fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, his model and muse Peggy Moffitt, and her husband, photographer William Claxton worked as a symbiotic trio — Gernreich dressing Moffitt in his then-futuristic ensembles and Claxton photographing Moffitt in the...
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