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'Anything could happen—especially after dark': Phyllida Barlow unveils teetering, battered sculpture in London cemetery
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Llongyfarchiadau!*—Wales’ slate landscape awarded Unesco world heritage status
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The £2m slag heap: visitors say Marble Arch Mound is London's 'worst' attraction
Group show of cutting edge contemporary painting opens at Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate
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Group show of cutting edge contemporary painting opens at Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate
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Not Safe For (Art) Work: Pornhub creates 'Classic Nudes' tours of museum collections
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Tate Moderna? Not quite. London museum to offer free Pfizer jabs on Friday evening
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Turn on, tune in, drop art: Pioneer Works new Broadcast media platform blends science and culture
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Why artist Eileen Agar’s 'womb magic' speaks to our times
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A cement factory from Idaho lands in Manhattan for Dia Foundation’s reopening show
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Beauty in the Brutalist beast: a critic's view of the Frick Madison
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Basking in the reflected glory of the River Thames
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Visit Mañanaland today: Pedro Reyes's utopian vision plays out through an AR scavenger hunt
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Galleries start to clean up their environmental act with new climate coalition
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Letting the art, and the visitors, breathe: a Covid-conscious Met and MoMA return from lockdown
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The Great Disruptors: two museum shows look back at 1970s New York
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Artist couple Gary Hume and Georgie Hopton stage first joint exhibitions
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What’s old is new (and vice-versa)
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Valie Export and crowning babies bring mixed messages of motherhood to Mayfair
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Tim Marlow finally receives a big shiny medal as he waves goodbye to Royal Academy
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Sarah Lucas eggs women on at Red Brick Museum
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'Welcome to the shitshow': Jeremy Deller's new film delves into the dark underbelly of Brexit
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Jennifer Binnie and Andrew Logan unite once more for collaborative London show
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Throwing open the gallery doors: the art world darlings keeping it real
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'Quite butch' vs 'wonderful'—new statue of Princess Diana seriously splits opinion
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'Island of secrets': exhibition fills former UK nuclear research site on Suffolk coast with art
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Crack the code—mural honouring queer hero Alan Turing unveiled at UK intelligence agency
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You ain’t nothing but a pound dog—€100,000 needed to pep up Jeff Koons’ pooped puppy
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Nature is healing: New York Botanical Garden finally opens Yayoi Kusama Infinity Room
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New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal—the 'worst place on Earth'—to get an art makeover
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NFTs of a different stripe: Joe Exotic gets into the digital art trend
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Here are Magnus Resch's five simple rules to becoming a successful artist
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'Mount Recyclemore': ahead of summit, artist builds gigantic electronic waste sculpture of G7 leaders
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Pop star Sia takes up residence in a Portuguese palace
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No Fear in Trying: Unit London gallery launches NFT trading platform
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Colossal calamari sculpture causes kerfuffle in Japan
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The 'world’s largest public art fair' opens today in New York
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Yinka Shonibare, an art icon with a sardonic twist
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To honour Joseph Beuys's landmark urban forest installation, 100 oak trees have been planted outside Tate Modern
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You’re in charge—‘wormhole’ KW digital exhibition takes viewers on a bespoke virtual voyage
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Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun project launches campaign for a solar-powered future
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Summer auction in aid of NHS gardens includes works by Maggi Hambling and Dawn Beckles
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Ben Kingsley is surreal as Salvador Dalí on Welsh film set
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London's Design Museum circumvents lockdown restrictions by opening artist-designed supermarket
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Interactive art work that reads emotions is just the medicine at London hospital
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A cement factory from Idaho lands in Manhattan for Dia Foundation’s reopening show
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Golazo! UK artists design football shirts as collectable art
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Poldark star Aidan Turner on how to play Leonardo (hint: learn to paint with your left hand)
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Gallerist finds shrimp tails in Cinnamon Toast Crunch, insists it is not a piece of performance art
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Sculptor Zak Ové creates monumental Afrofuturistic rocket ship, but it has nowhere to land
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His name is my name too: Nick Cave, the musician, creates further confusion with Nick Cave, the artist, by releasing new visual art works
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Artists take to billboards to commemorate one year anniversary of UK lockdown
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Antiques dealer launches NFT—of his 17th-century Delftware vase
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Eve Arnold’s unseen images of Marilyn Monroe feature on £30 posters
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Basking in the reflected glory of the River Thames
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Just dance: Park Avenue Armory announces 2021 season of socially distanced performances
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Banana tape artist Maurizio Cattelan creates Vanity Fair Hollywood cover featuring Zendaya and Awkwafina
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Sex toys on the beach? Antony Gormley seaside sculptures—likened to 'vibrators'—fall foul of planning laws
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AI robot Ai-Da gets first major exhibition at London's Design Museum—but beware of the (lustful) critics
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'Like witnessing my own funeral': Michael Landy's possession-pulverising performance piece Break Down turns 20
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New artistic director Polly Brannan takes the reins at trailblazing Open School East in Margate
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Statue of Captain Sir Tom Moore should go on the Fourth Plinth, insists ex-MP
Project space providing discount studios for young London artists opens in Mayfair
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Project space providing discount studios for young London artists opens in Mayfair
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Art in the Netflix period drama Bridgerton, from the Holburne Museum to the Royal Academy
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'Remove racist paintings' and 'give back stolen objects': The White Pube takes its manifesto to the streets
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‘UK’s biggest art exhibition’ gets underway—and they want your work, too
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Kara Walker’s fountain at Tate Modern takes centre stage in new FKA twigs video
The art of caring—UK gallery launches Nurse in Residence programme
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The art of caring—UK gallery launches Nurse in Residence programme
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Why Joe Brainard still matters— Jonathan Anderson of Loewe pays homage to the late collagist and poet
From canvas to catwalk: Dior turns Peter Doig's atmospheric paintings into menswear collection
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From canvas to catwalk: Dior turns Peter Doig's atmospheric paintings into menswear collection
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Viral inauguration meme brings together Marina Abramovic and Bernie Sanders—plus those mittens
Shattered glass: women artists celebrate historic inauguration of US Vice President Kamala Harris
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Shattered glass: women artists celebrate historic inauguration of US Vice President Kamala Harris
Awash with art—Cristina Iglesias fills island lighthouse with bronze geological formations
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Awash with art—Cristina Iglesias fills island lighthouse with bronze geological formations
Future Fossil: the concrete cast of a suburban house that will sprout into a glorious garden
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Future Fossil: the concrete cast of a suburban house that will sprout into a glorious garden
The Met invites you to play a game, and then ‘borrow’ a work of art
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The Met invites you to play a game, and then ‘borrow’ a work of art
Patti Smith lights up London's Piccadilly Circus with birthday wishes for Greta Thunberg
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Patti Smith lights up London's Piccadilly Circus with birthday wishes for Greta Thunberg
Monolith mania continues as another obelisk pops up—this time in Salisbury, UK
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Monolith mania continues as another obelisk pops up—this time in Salisbury, UK
LeRoy Neiman's knockout sketches of Rocky on show at legendary Brooklyn gym
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LeRoy Neiman's knockout sketches of Rocky on show at legendary Brooklyn gym
Ring in the New Year with Patti Smith performance on Piccadilly Lights screen
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Ring in the New Year with Patti Smith performance on Piccadilly Lights screen
Damien Hirst in his own words—artist presents walk-through tour of his early works on Instagram
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Damien Hirst in his own words—artist presents walk-through tour of his early works on Instagram
As Jupiter and Saturn kiss, slow down this Winter Solstice with Serpentine Galleries’ stress-busting sound work
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As Jupiter and Saturn kiss, slow down this Winter Solstice with Serpentine Galleries’ stress-busting sound work
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Mary, Joseph.... and Darth Vader? Vatican's sci-fi-esque nativity scene raises eyebrows
Shining a light in 2020—Nathan Coley’s new text sculpture illuminates Liverpool
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Shining a light in 2020—Nathan Coley’s new text sculpture illuminates Liverpool
Portraits of local heroes go on show at London's Kings Cross
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Portraits of local heroes go on show at London's Kings Cross
Abso-lot-ely fabulous: Joanna Lumley tries out her auctioneering skills at Christie’s
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Abso-lot-ely fabulous: Joanna Lumley tries out her auctioneering skills at Christie’s
Star sold seven illustrations in aid of Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity
Jeremy Deller marks World Human Rights Day with UK-wide poster campaign
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Jeremy Deller marks World Human Rights Day with UK-wide poster campaign
Visit Mañanaland today: Pedro Reyes's utopian vision plays out through an AR scavenger hunt
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Visit Mañanaland today: Pedro Reyes's utopian vision plays out through an AR scavenger hunt
The artist Pedro Reyes offers a peek at a future where threats such as health crises, climate disasters, social division and nuclear destruction are far behind us
Freelands awards MK Gallery and Ingrid Pollard £100,000—and releases annual report highlighting art world's glaring gender discrepancies
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Freelands awards MK Gallery and Ingrid Pollard £100,000—and releases annual report highlighting art world's glaring gender discrepancies
Grizedale launches campaign to turn historic Lake District pub into rural arts centre
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Grizedale launches campaign to turn historic Lake District pub into rural arts centre
V&A acquires Harry Styles’s TikTok-trending multicoloured patchwork cardigan
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V&A acquires Harry Styles’s TikTok-trending multicoloured patchwork cardigan
Southbank Centre's outdoor lights show offers glittering festive cheer—but scant comfort to its redundant workers
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Southbank Centre's outdoor lights show offers glittering festive cheer—but scant comfort to its redundant workers
Phyllida Barlow hosts virtual pyjama party for Contemporary Art Society's fundraising dinner
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Phyllida Barlow hosts virtual pyjama party for Contemporary Art Society's fundraising dinner
During a second lockdown CAS found an ingenious solution for its annual artist-hosted fundraising dinner