Martin Creed’s sparse conceptualism is not an obvious candidate for psychoanalytical readings but, as part of the UK-wide Museums at Night festival, the maverick artist appeared at the Freud Museum in London on 16 May and turned a 100-strong…
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A case of international plagiarism has shone a spotlight on the ineffective laws that protect artists’ work from being copied in China.
The Italian sculptor Claudio Capotondi, who won the prestigious Michelangelo Prize in 2000, says he felt…
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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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For all those who say Damien Hirst will do anything for money, it’s worth pondering on a recent news nugget revealing that the UK artist withdrew from creating what could have been the most gigantic work of art of all time, or at least one of them:…
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The Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts is due to re-open in the new year with a new exhibition and event space.
Several new shows will inaugurate the space when it opens on 22 January 2013, including…
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The FBI is watching: when an eagle-eyed agent spotted the Israeli-born artist Omer Fast and his production team were rather too interested in speaking to someone operating military drones, the FBI tracked down the artist’s producer at home in Los…
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The recent cleaning of what was believed to be a relatively straightforward composition of a 17th-century female nude in the collection of the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin, took a turn of mythic proportions when…
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Is it a veil, is it a sand dune? No, it’s a dragonfly’s wing. Mario Bellini and Rudy Ricciotti’s billowing, gold glass and steel covering to the historic Visconti courtyard, giving a new space for 2,500 pieces from the Louvre’s collection of Islamic…
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A rock ‘n’ roll tribute to the utopian designer Buckminster Fuller is one of the eclectic projects included in the Time-Based Art Festival, organised by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Oregon (6-16 September). “There’s a lot of risk…
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More than 250 works from the Musée National Picasso, Paris, will go on display in Milan’s Palazzo Reale, the only European stop in a global tour of the exhibition of the Spanish artist’s work that began in 2011. Around 88,000 advance tickets have…
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