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How artists Judy Watson and Helen Johnson are stripping back Australia's 'white blanket of forgetfulness'

In his 1980 Boyer Lecture, art historian Bernard Smith said a “white blanket of forgetfulness” had been thrown over the horrors of Australia’s colonial past.

The Conversation

Women artists: the belated craze for blockbuster shows is welcome – but it's not enough

The Barbican’s boldly curated exhibiton of abstract expressionist Lee Krasner (1908-1984) – who was routinely referred to as Jackson Pollock’s wife, despite being a well-established artist long before meeting him – transferred to the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2018. Before it opened, a Spanish newspaper invited me to introduce this “little…

The Conversation

Brad Pitt, Nick Cave Make Surprise Art Debut in Finland

Hollywood's Brad Pitt and Australian musician Nick Cave have debuted as artists in an exhibition in Finland that displays sculptures and ceramics created by the movie star and the singer-songwriter. The Sara Hilden Art Museum, located in the southern Finnish city of Tampere, was initially scheduled to exhibit solely the…

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William Kentridge review – the sound and the fury

Forty years of work whirl before us, the violence of apartheid, inequality and brutality underpinning it all, as Kentridge’s drawn images merge into animations, filmed performance and sculpture

The Guardian - UK

Derek Andrews obituary

Other lives: Potter and painter living in the Fens who turned to metal sculpture at the age of 88

The Guardian - UK

‘It could have some negative pushback’: has extreme comedian Kim Noble finally gone too far?

In Lullaby for Scavengers, the no-holds-barred performance artist returns to outfox and outrage audiences. He talks about trying to snog his mother, bathing with maggots and being an ‘old white dinosaur’

The Guardian - UK

Shockingly, Brad Pitt turns out to be a very fine sculptor

Pitt is not the first star to try his hand at art, but his finely wrought, intelligent reflections of American violence make him one of the very best

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Brad Pitt, Nick Cave make surprise art debut in Finland

Brad Pitt and Australian musician Nick Cave have debuted as artists in an exhibition in Finland, showing off for the first time sculptures and ceramics created by the movie star and the singer-songwriter

The Independent UK

Perfectly reasonable explanation as car flipped over in middle of Irish town

Those who have been in the Skibb area may have been questioning why the motor had been abandoned. Well, we have the answer

Irish Mirror

Brad Pitt reveals surprise first art exhibition at Sara Hildén Art Museum in Finland

Brad Pitt used art as therapy after his divorce in 2017 and said the works were a result of being ‘brutally honest’ with himself

Evening Standard

University of Dundee graduate's artwork named among world's best

COURSEWORK by a University of Dundee graduate has been named among the world’s best at a major awards ceremony.

The National (Scotland)

William Kentridge at the Royal Academy review: testament to a genuinely unique vision

This show teems with imagery and ideas from the start

Evening Standard

Royal galleries to reopen to visitors after Queen’s death

Windsor Castle, where the Queen spent much of her time in her final years, will reopen a week later on September 29.

The Independent UK

Performance artist Kristina Wong riding high as a 'Sweatshop Overlord' and Pulitzer Prize finalist

In mid-March 2020, performance artist-playwright Kristina Wong was midway through the second live show of a national tour when all of the students in the college auditorium where she was performing received a simultaneous text that the campus would shut down the next day due to COVID-19.

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‘The comedy was a distraction’: Jim Moir on leaving Vic Reeves behind to paint rocks all day

Edging away from the spotlight as a comedian, Moir has devoted himself to painting birds, rocks and punch-ups in dinghies. Is he one of Britain’s most prolific artists?

Chicago Sun-Times

Thumbs up for return of Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2023

The biennial has been a good ambassador for the city, a reminder of Chicago’s continuing contribution to the world’s art and architecture.

Evening Standard

Maria Bartuszová at Tate Modern review: Portrays the quiet magic of a remarkable sculptor

There are moments in the exhibition where you feel the artist’s presence

Evening Standard

M.K. Čiurlionis: Between Worlds at Dulwich Picture Gallery review - mystical and magical (and hobbity)

The work by this artist, a sort of Lithuanian Blake, evokes folk tales and mystic philosophies

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Maria Bartuszová review – a world of misshapen planets and alien art forms

The Prague-born artist, who made wildly experimental art under the nose of the communist authorities, began casting her weirdly entrancing sculptures from children’s party balloons

The Guardian - UK

Ready for Absolutely Nothing by Susannah Constantine review – the naked truth

From boarding school through the Sloane years to her turn as Anton Du Beke’s worst-ever Strictly partner, the former TV style guru’s memoir is sometimes borderline deranged, often haphazard, but never dull

The Independent UK

‘It’s about where I’ve misstepped’: Brad Pitt makes surprise debut as a sculptor in Finland

‘For Nick [Cave] and I this is a new world and our first entry,’ actor said

The Independent UK

TikTok’s ‘virginity testing’ obsession proves we’re still fixated on the myths of female sexuality

As videos of harmful and humiliating ‘virginity testing’ practices go viral on TikTok, Eloise Hendy speaks to experts about why more needs to be done to end the errors and falsehoods perpetuated about female sexuality

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lebanon’s Past Echoes Its Grim Present in Exhibition

In a war-scarred Beirut heritage house turned museum, archives of Lebanon's troubled past fuse with artistic depictions of its grim present to portray a country seemingly in perpetual turmoil. Newspaper clippings, film negatives and diary entries from the years before Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war tell a story of government corruption,…

The Guardian - UK

‘Ron’s Place’: drive to save Birkenhead palace of outsider art

Ron Gittins, who died in 2019, left behind a rented flat decorated and piled high with artworks

Newcastle Herald

Aboriginal massacre painting 'too insensitive' for cultural centre

Singleton Council has deemed a painting depicting a nineteenth Aboriginal massacre on the town's outskirts 'too insensitive' to show at the local arts and cultural centre.

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