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A sneak preview of Neurotic Realism at the Saatchi Gallery, 1999

Artists slept among the rubble, posed as soldiers shooting deserters, channelled their neuroticism and did anything else they could to draw attention to their ‘end-of-art’ art. By Genevieve Fox

The Guardian - UK · Jan 12, 2025

‘It is everything art gets a bad name for and everything I love’: Damien Hirst and Cornelia Parker on choosing artworks for schools

Antony Gormley and Bridget Riley also pick works to be shown on high-res displays, thanks to a drive to put art at the core of the secondary school cultural syllabus

The Guardian - UK · Jan 11, 2025

Macron revives plans to build memorial for victims of terrorism

France’s plans to build a national memorial for victims of terrorism – originally shelved due to budget cuts – are back on track, President Emmanuel Macron has promised. The project’s proposed location on a World War II memorial site, however, remains a point of contention.

Radio France Internationale · Jan 11, 2025

Giant sculpture inspired by the sun to go on display at National Trust properties

Luke Jerram’s latest work, entitled Helios, includes the sound of the sun captured by Nasa.

The Independent UK · Jan 10, 2025

Sketchy boozers, revolutionary futurists and the artists of tomorrow – the week in art

Portraits of 100 London pubs, Marinetti’s ferocious innovation and a new generation on display – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK · Jan 10, 2025

Renzo Galeotti obituary

Other lives: Artist whose work is held by the Auschwitz and Kraków Jagiellonskiego museums

The Guardian - UK · Jan 9, 2025

On Perverts, Ethel Cain is lost in the meticulous crafting of her own horror noise

4/5 Listening to the alt-pop artist’s latest project feels like being trapped in a serial killer’s underground network of post-industrial tunnels

The Independent UK · Jan 9, 2025

‘We will glorify war – and scorn for women’: Marinetti, the futurist Mussolini sidekick who outdid Elon Musk

He was the brilliant yet alarming writer of the Futurist Manifesto, a bohemian poet jailed with Mussolini who helped forge the modern world. As a new show re-examines his troubling legacy, we explore the Italian troublemaker’s extraordinary life

The Guardian - UK · Jan 9, 2025

National Gallery to stay open overnight to meet huge demand for Van Gogh exhibition

Tickets for night-time slots on 17 January go on sale today as gallery opens for 24 hours for just second time in its history

Evening Standard · Jan 9, 2025

National Gallery pulls all-nighter for Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers final weekend

Tickets for night-time slots on 17 January go on sale as gallery opens for 24 hours for second time in its history

The Guardian - UK · Jan 9, 2025