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Hockney’s sitters face their painted selves at Lacma
The real subject in the show, and the source of each portrait’s fascination, is the tension between self-image and outward appearance
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Jumex Museum show looks at the fall of the Utopian ideal in Latin America
Mexico City museum is becoming a private institution that actually serves the public interest
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Wolfgang Tillmans talks post-Brexit and 'the backfire effect' at London's ICA
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Lydia Ourahmane sends out vibrations at the Chisenhale
Patrons and friends felt the tremors of an hour-long soundscape emanating from beneath the floor
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's boozy reading raises funds for the Contemporary Art Society
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Joan Jonas checks out digital double whammy of Ian Cheng and Sondra Perry shows
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Kindred collage spirits John Stezaker and Georgie Hopton talk the dark side of the art form
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Valeria Napoleone spreads the love in support of Alexandra Bircken and London art space Studio Voltaire
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Bravado, bats and giant bugs as Marvin Gaye Chetwynd takes over Sadie Coles
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Russian man suspends himself from a London building in the name of art—and LGBT rights
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Books, trees and live birds: Mark Dion's new exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery
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Eddie Peake takes centre stage for new performance show at London’s White Cube
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Crystals and contemplation: Mona Hatoum celebrated as Whitechapel Gallery’s 2018 Art Icon
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Newly refurbished Hayward lights up after dark
Brutalist museum reopens with new skylights and glass pyramids
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Condo and London Art Fair openings bring art tribes out in force across the city
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Sophie Jung rings in the new year with a ‘topless’ performance mixing Marxism and Mary Poppins
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Zardulu the Mythmaker reads the tarot for Miami's fair-goers
Today’s horoscope for: Dealers
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Zardulu the Mythmaker reads the tarot for Miami's fair-goers
Today's horoscope is for artists
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Zardulu the Mythmaker reads the tarot for Miami fair-goers
Today's horoscope is for collectors
BlogThe Rachel Report
Chicago’s bawdy night in Brooklyn
Feminists take that stage for the Sackler Center First Award at the Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum’s rush to celebrate Rodin
“The Brooklyn Museum is hustling to become the greatest, new, 200-year-old discovery on the planet,” said the museum’s director Anne Pasternak
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It’s a family affair for McArthur Binion
The Chicago-based painter is one of 11 children, born and raised in Macon, Mississippi, at a rural address known simply as Route One, Box Two
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Kehinde Wiley talks politics, painting and portraying Michael Jackson as he unveils new works in London
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Bruce McLean interviews himself as he launches his autobiography
He asked himself "ten difficult questions"
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Jarvis Cocker lights up the Hamlyn Awards with a Powerpoint
Pulp front man was the MC for the awards ceremony
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Ashley just wants to have fun
The Bali-based artist Ashley Bickerton has his first US survey at the Flag Art Foundation
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Smells like Marina spirit
Abramovic’s show in 2020 at London’s Royal Academy of Arts will mark the first time a woman has been the subject of a retrospective at the prestigious institution
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Getting high with JFK
Teenagers in California’s Coachella Valley have found a creative way of “engaging” with the art on view at Desert X
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Taking the alphabet by the horns
Rarely is an instrumental concert as visually exciting as it is aurally, but that was the case at the Darmstadt Ensemble’s quirky recent performance
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Icelandic songs and ancestral sausages mark end of Peter Liversidge’s Southwark show
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Nitsch plays the other kind of organ
The 79-year-old Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch is legendary for his decades-long exploration of religious rituals and violence
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Never mind the bollocks
The British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood may have helped bring punk into the mainstream, but lately she’s been busier making the mainstream look punk
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Storage wars in the Lower East Side
The conceptual artist Aaron Flint Jamison caused a stir last month when he decided that for his solo exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery he would show only works in the gallery’s storage
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El Hanani, quickest on the draw in SoHo
For nearly half a century, Jacob El Hanani has been composing obsessively detailed drawings using a Rapidograph pen, typically employed by architects
BlogIn the frame
Street artist Banksy up in arms about arms
The event Art the Arms featured other artist-activists such as the Guerrilla Girls and Peter Kennard
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Draw your own conclusions
Fill in the blanks of art crimes solved and unsolved with two new adult colouring books
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A Syrian in space
The astronaut Muhammed Faris was hailed a national hero in 1987 after accompanying a Soviet crew on a trip to the Mir space station
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Ofili adds restaurant design to his CV
To celebrate its 50th birthday this year, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has given itself a gift as part of a building redesign: a new restaurant
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Vadim Zakharov gives Stephen Fry’s history of classical music a lease of Russian life at the Whitechapel
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Much admiration—and the art of noise—as Tate and Rachel Whiteread kick-off the new art season
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Andy and Peter Holden’s nesting instincts make for an extraordinary installation in south London
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London exhibitions part 2: black rights on both sides of the Atlantic and Middle Eastern spaceship diners
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London exhibitions part 1: female Surrealists reclaim the body, a peek into Matisse’s studio and an exploration of the artist-sitter dynamic
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Boundary blurring, bacchanals and rude food at David Roberts Art Foundation’s last hurrah in Camden
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Voices from the past talk to our present in Putti’s Pudding at Studio Voltaire
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Roll up, roll up to Britain’s first interfaith charity shop on Selfridges’ third floor
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A Service of Lament and Thanksgiving in the shadow of Grenfell Tower
Family, friends and fellow artists filled St Mary’s Church in London’s North Kensington to commemorate and celebrate the young artist Khadija Saye
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The sun sets on twenty years of art clan gatherings at the Hydra Workshops
There are many outstanding events in the art world but few as eagerly anticipated as the annual gathering on the Greek island of Hydra hosted by Pauline Karpidas
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Tears, laughter, thunder and lightning to celebrate Jenni Lomax’s 26 years at Camden Arts Centre
Your correspondent rounded off the speeches at the packed party to celebrate Jenni Lomax, who is stepping down as the director of Camden Arts Centre
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Emma Hart keeps all lines of communication open at unveiling of her Max Mara show
The winner of the 2015-17 Max Mara Women’s art prize has unveiled Mamma Mia!, a spectacular installation that fills the Whitechapel’s number two gallery
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Parry and thrust and pregnant pauses at unveiling of Frieze Sculpture
The exhibition now runs from 5 July until the closing of the art fair on 8 October
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Serpentine Summer Party goes with a swing and a chill
New CEO Yana Peel partnered up with Chanel
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Mark Leckey offers a cathartic shout-out at Cubitt gallery
For his new show Leckey lead a mass rendition of a sound piece that forms a key element of his new installation
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Conrad Shawcross channels Brexit in his St Pancras International sculpture
The official take is that sculpture is “a celebration of mechanics and engineering”