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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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
It has hosted a huge spider and a pickled shark – and despite financial pressures, there can be little doubt about the gallery’s seismic impactOpening night at Tate Modern, 25 years ago this May, was the kind of party that defines an era. Stars of the arts world and polit...
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A new series of events and exhibitions aim to remember the art made during a devastating time, centered on the powerful Aids quiltIn the 1980s, while the Aids pandemic ravaged the LGBTQ+ population of the United States, then president Ronald Reagan failed to help. He didn...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Could Norman Foster’s £2bn design for the club, which will be seen 25 miles away, turn out to be a case of hubris before ruin? There’s a phenomenon in architectural history whereby great empires build their grandest monuments just before they fall. The Parthenon was compl...
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Turner prize nominee Delaine Le Bas says entrenched racist attitudes to community persist in UK and EuropeRoma, Gypsies and Travellers have not made as much progress as other...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsWhy are you expected to be quiet in an art gallery? Thierry Dupond, Charente-Maritime, Fra...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
The inspiring makeover of a 1960s Utrecht college at less than half the cost of a new building and a third the carbon footprint is among projects in the Netherlands that can teach the UK vital lessons in sustainability‘The greenest building,” to quote a slogan now popular...
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The Guardian » 1 week ago
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two), EdinburghWords and ideas are as one – and at war – in Finlay’s witty, elegant work, from sculptures to screenprints, which are ideally displayed in this intimate centenary showS&l...
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