In Focus: Art Exhibitions 2018
There will be a whole cornucopia of delights to meet your art needs across the UK in 2018. From...
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Tag: Art
Hashtag Art: In Conversation with Tabloid Art History
Tabloid Art History is a Twitter account with a simple premise – tabloid photographs paired with...
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Culturised’s Top Art Picks of 2017
The 95th Venice Biennale A useful barometer for trends in contemporary art within an international...
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From Chair to Canvas: ‘Matisse in the Studio’ at the Royal Academy
Emerging from the ashes of the vibrant Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy is a much more...
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The Enduring Problem of Art Forgery: Confronting Old Issues with New Technology
Conventional wisdom goes that art forgery first emerged in the Renaissance when artists like...
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Morality and Taxidermy in Art: Between the Monstrous and the Beautiful
In recent years taxidermy has become popular as an art medium. Artists like Damien Hirst, Polly...
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Vuitton and Da Vinci: The Changing Boundaries Between Fashion and Art
While both fashion and art work primarily within the aesthetic world, fashion’s material and...
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Rejecting the High Street: Lydia Higginson’s ‘Made My Wardrobe’
As Yves Saint Laurent once said, “fashion fades, but style is eternal.”[1] In this age of...
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Women in the Art World: Signs of Progress
The Venice Biennale is one of the longest running cultural festivals in the world. Founded in...
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Lorna Simpson’s ‘Twenty Questions (A Sampler)’: Photography’s Power Dynamics
Lorna Simpson first came to prominence as a conceptual artist in the mid-1980s, after graduating...
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Modernising Modernism: ‘The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection’ at Tate Modern
In 2003, art historian Eva Forgács wrote critically of the scholarly categorization of an...
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“Class Consciousness to the Fray!”: El Lissitzky’s Soviet Pavillion at ‘Pressa’
2017 marks the centenary of the two Russian revolutions that irrevocably altered the Russian...
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Layers of History: Anselm Kiefer and the New Geological Age
On August 29th 2016, a recommendation was presented to the International Geological Congress that...
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