Were there ever two stranger bedfellows? Merrill Lynch, the wealth management and investment banking arm of Bank of America, has launched a public art project in southeast London in conjunction with Tate and Graffiti Life, a London-based collective…
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The former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher won few friends in the art world because of her severe cuts to arts funding. Among those who have supported her are Conservative conceptualists Gilbert and George, who told the Telegraph: “We admire…
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More than 30 artists and architects including Cildo Meireles, Isaac Julien, Cristina Iglesias, Norman Foster and Olafur Eliasson have created new works in homage to the Brazilian Modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi. The São Paulo exhibition, “The…
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The first major retrospective of the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) in her home country (“A Pioneer of Abstraction”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, until 26 May) has been overshadowed by a legal dispute involving members of the board of the…
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I laughed out loud when I saw this picture of Yoda with the late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia at the United Nations. That austere kingdom doesn’t give us much to giggle about, but Saudi street artist “Shaweesh” has decided it’s time to connect his…
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The British artist Stuart Semple has signed a contract for worldwide representation with the fashion agency Next Management, a move that highlights again how the traditional artist-gallery relationship is changing. Several artists, including Damien…
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Russia’s €40,000 Kandinsky Prize for project of the year was divided for the first time between two finalists: Grisha Bruskin for his Kafkaesque H-Hour sculpture and the AES+F collective for Allegoria Sacra, the final installment of an…
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“Greedy schmuck”, “So what”, “Other people think”: the walls of Art Basel Miami Beach seem noisier than usual this year, with a profusion of text-based works. Barbara Kruger’s huge vinyls, inspired by advertising slogans, can’t help but catch the…
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An ambitious Los Angeles-based project made up of more than 40 events and exhibitions aims to raise the profile of French contemporary art in the US. “Ceci n’est pas” encompasses a wide range of Franco-American collaborations taking place in public…
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An ambitious Los Angeles-based project made up of more than 40 events and exhibitions aims to raise the profile of French contemporary art in the US. “Ceci n’est pas” encompasses a wide range of Franco-American collaborations taking place in public…
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