The Guardian » 1 week ago
From quilting in Japanese prisoner camps to graffiti in Sudan via Rachel Whiteread, Maggi Hambling and Lee Miller, this documentary covers myriad artistic responses to warMargy Kinmonth’s latest feature documentary represents the third in a trilogy of f...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The Philippines has the largest Catholic population in Asia and the world’s third largest after Brazil and Mexico. Although tattoos have, for some, lost their original significance by becoming objects of consumption and fashion, religious tattoos in the Philippines take on a meaning beyond ...
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LA Times » 1 week ago
In 1933, the Ebell of Los Angeles commissioned frescoes by renowned muralist Maxine Albro. Two years later — after contentious battle — the frescoes were thought to be destroyed. They have now been rediscovered....
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
It is a Gilded Age gem full of Old Masters, from Vermeer to Holbein. Now, after a ravishing $300m revamp, it is even more welcoming. Our writer revels in its silk-clad walls and the freshly trickling fountain of its light-filled sculpture court‘If I could have a pound for...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Arts teacher and photographer Hicham Benohoud encouraged students to engage playfully with identity in postcolonial Morocco, for a project called The Classroom ...
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The Guardian » 1 day ago
Serpentine, LondonFrom the moment we inhale the scent of this remarkable show – in which trees blast open and boulders perch on branches – the Italian artist intoxicates us like a shaman communing with wood spritesIt’s the aroma that...
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The Guardian » 1 day ago
Inspired by the landscapes of the French masters, Elger Esser captures the brooding seascapes and bucolic country scenes of his beloved countryside – with timeless results ...
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The Guardian » 2 days ago
Photographer Sarah Mei Herman was 20 when her half-brother Jonathan was born – she spent the next two decades capturing intimate moments between him and their father ...
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The Guardian » 1 day ago
My friend John McNeill, who has died aged 67 after a short illness, was one of the UK’s leading scholars of romanesque architecture and sculpture. He published articles on romanesque architecture from across Europe, especially monastic buildings, with an interest in eleme...
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The Guardian » 4 weeks ago
Cole was a black South African photographer whose work illuminated the reality of life under apartheid, but Raoul Peck’s excellent documentary unearths a life of exile and homesicknessHaitian film-maker Raoul Peck won an Oscar nomination for his ...
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