Art project using a human cadaver could still happen

A concept by the artist John Baldessari to display a human cadaver as a work of art could one day be realised, a leading curator believes, despite a recent failed effort to find and display a dead body within the strict legal framework surrounding…
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Warning over Qatar’s human rights record

A leading human rights organisation has warned British museums to exercise “extreme caution” in their dealings with Qatar. The remarks have been made in response to the plight of Muhammad al-Ajami, a Qatari poet currently serving a 15-year prison…
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Sculptures, satellites and what it means to be human

The Australian artist Andrew Rogers is due to travel to Namibia in south-west Africa in August to work alongside nomadic Himba tribespeople on a stone geoglyph or earth sculpture. The “earth drawing”, as Rogers calls it, will measure hundreds of…
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