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Brazilian art student swaps Civil War coin at British Museum in colonial artefacts protest

Ile Sartuzi says his work sparks a discussion about ‘theft and looting both from a neocolonial perspective’

The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2024

Let’s get physical: the science of dance at the Venice Biennale

The dance festival’s opening weekend, under the theme We Humans, focused as much on gravity and technology as emotional connection

The Guardian - UK · Jul 22, 2024

How to talk to your kids about nude art at the gallery

Art offers us different, and sometimes challenging, perspectives to consider in our lifelong relationship with the human form.

The Conversation · Jul 22, 2024

Coups, crackdowns and chaos: art inspired by democracy – and the despots who overthrew it

In Athens, the birthplace of republican rule, a new exhibition is exploring art it inspired, from pop art shootings to spies lurking in the Parthenon. Ironically, dictators steal the show

The Guardian - UK · Jul 22, 2024

It was a marriage of equals, but Sheila Girling was left in Anthony Caro’s shadow. Not any longer…

Son and grandson of the painter unveil exhibition of her work to restore her place in cultural history

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2024

Martello tower fortress in Suffolk on sale for £450,000 – with a RIBA award-winning neighbour for inspiration

The quirky sea fort, one of around a hundred across England, neighbours award-winning ‘Tower Y’ which sold for well over a million

Evening Standard · Jul 21, 2024

Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body review – an Olympic revelation from first to last

Hollywood’s Tarzan, a swimmer from Blackpool and devout Eric Liddell are among the stars in a superb show of art, film, photography and more capturing the speed and style of the city’s pivotal modernist Games

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2024

'You survive with grace': Alvaro Barrington at the Tate Britain

Alvaro Barrington considers Black culture with Grace installed in Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries

Wallpaper · Jul 21, 2024

Overlooked 2.0 transforms London’s manhole covers into works of art

Overlooked 2.0 gives industrial design a neon makeover.

Creative Bloq · Jul 20, 2024

Black Modernism’s lesser-known, at-risk architecture gems gain a lifeline

Conserving Black Modernism announces vital funding to save and preserve overlooked and endangered buildings by African American architects and designers

Wallpaper · Jul 20, 2024