FeatureArt's Most Popular 2019
Art in the age of Instagram and the power of going viral
As visitors to exhibitions are increasingly sharing their experiences online, should curators plan shows for maximum hype?
FeatureExhibitions
How museums are stepping up exhibition design
A wave of innovative exhibition design has graced our museums in recent years. What are the keys to holding the viewer’s gaze?
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Edward Woodman: the light and space of a golden era
UK retrospective freeze-frames often ephemeral works from the 1980s and 1990s
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Larry Poons: Art isn’t business
The octogenarian painter stars in The Price of Everything, a new film about the machinations of the market airing on HBO
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Troubled waters: Elmgreen & Dragset dive into politics for new London show
The Scandinavian duo build a swimming pool in the Whitechapel Gallery and address their anger at populist leaders
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Taus Makhacheva: art as a balancing act
She discusses her tightrope of Dagestani art and how she is combining beauty treatment and sculpture at the Liverpool Biennial
FeatureArt Basel 2018
Is the biennial model busted?
Riga, Bangkok, São Paulo—every modern city wants a biennial. But is this good for contemporary art? Leading curators join the hot debate
FeatureMarcel Duchamp
What was it like to conduct Marcel Duchamp's only live television interview?
Fifty years on, Joan Bakewell remembers speaking to the pioneering artist for the BBC, shortly before his death
FeatureArt Dubai 2018
Is interest in African art on the rise in the Middle East?
An increased presence of African galleries at this edition of Art Dubai could signify a flourishing regional market
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Tacita Dean on her three major London shows
From genre fluidity to the British artist's love of analogue film
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Yinka Shonibare: a change in the wind
Central Park is an ideal location for the British-Nigerian artist’s latest sculpture
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Lost Art: Field of the Cloth of Gold
Noah Charney on the hundreds of works that were described those who saw them as wondrous, but which were only ever meant to be temporary
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East German ‘arseholes’ are reappraised
The painter Georg Baselitz once profanely dismissed artists behind the Iron Curtain—but their work is now experiencing a long-overdue rediscovery
FeatureArtist interview
Mark Dion: Welcome to my Wunderkammer
The US artist discusses theatricality, science and the need for a greater environmental commitment in art
FeatureLost art
Lost Art: Rogier van der Weyden’s Justice cycle
Noah Charney on works that were more influential to history than those that survive
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Lydia Ourahmane on why she made a work about her grandfather pulling all his teeth
The Algerian-British artist explores her family’s experiences living in the shadow of colonialism
FeatureVictoria & Albert Museum
A new era for heritage reproduction
Digital technologies are at the heart of a declaration by major museums and heritage organisations to record and sometimes reproduce works of art
FeatureGoogle
How Google became a major producer of cultural content
The Google Cultural Institute’s We Wear Culture fashion stories are its latest museum collaboration, its director Amit Sood tells us.
FeatureArt Basel in Miami Beach
ARTificial intelligence
A string of shows across the US, starting in Miami, examines the impact of technology on identity and raises the question: what does it mean to be human?
FeatureArt Basel in Miami Beach
Miami’s museum makeover
The city’s art scene has grown beyond recognition in the past few years, but can it sustain so many institutions?
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Riders on the storm
How dedicated staff at PAMM and Vizcaya braved Hurricane Irma to keep the museums and collections safe
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'In Russia, either be brave or be silenced… there is no middle ground'
Russian art patron Igor Tsukanov has created a show at the Saatchi Gallery about artists who have risked protesting against conditions in Russia since 1991
InterviewArtist interview
Oscar Tuazon: Living as a sculptural process
The Los Angeles artist, who made one of the standout works at this year's Skulptur Projekte Műnster, is heading for the great outdoors
InterviewArtist interview
Judy Chicago: Catwoman
As three exhibitions open showcasing her work, including her Kitty City watercolours, the Los Angeles-based artist talks about being at the centre of a revival of interest—and having her early life story turned into a TV series
FeaturePolitics
The sculptures that unite America
As the debate rages about divisive Confederate monuments, five leading US scholars and curators pick the nation’s greatest memorial sculptures
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Encore! Tate’s New Performance plan
Artists like Marvin Gaye Chetwynd have prompted a rethink in the Tate’s approach to live art
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Venice can’t manage its tourists—yet it’s encouraging more to come from China
The town council proposes digital monitoring and a charge to enter St Mark’s Square
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On the side of the angels
Vittorio Scarpati made a series of bold drawings in a New York hospital before he died of Aids, which also claimed the life of his wife, the writer and actress Cookie Mueller. Teeming with “piles of angels”, Scarpati’s drawings are being shown for the first time in 25 years in London this month
FeatureArtist interview
Jenny Holzer: Words of Conflict
As three new commissions open this year in the UK and Abu Dhabi, the US artist reflects on the continued dominance of war as a theme in her work and says she longs for Trump to be “in the past tense”
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Summer art pilgrimages
Artists and curators tell us about the journeys they have embarked on, or hope to make, to see something special. Compiled by Ben Luke
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David Lamelas: time zones
The peripatetic Argentinian artist has explored memory, space and time in works made across the world. In September, his first full career survey opens in Los Angeles as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative
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The importance of being Ettore Sottsass
Diverse work by the larger-than-life designer who rejected Modernist good taste goes on show in Basel, Venice and the Met soon
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Venice Biennale: triumphs and talking points
Leading figures give their impressions of Christine Macel’s main show, Viva Arte Viva, and their pick of the national pavilions
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Nairy Baghramian: check your privilege
As she features in Documenta 14 and takes centre stage in Münster this summer, the Berlin-based artist discusses her approach to these major public exhibitions and the need to be wary of sensation and spectacle
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Frank Lloyd Wright: a force of nature
As MoMA’s show of his vast archive confirms, the self-proclaimed “world’s greatest architect” was an inspired talent-spotter, employing brilliant female assistants
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Freeing Tania Bruguera
The artist takes a turn on the psychiatrist’s couch in a new documentary by Lynn Hershman Leeson that delves into the psychology of government oppression
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Frieze New York gets theatrical
For this year’s Frieze Projects tribute, four artists will recreate and riff on Galleria La Tartaruga’s historic Teatro delle Mostre exhibition, which turned experiences into works of art
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Symbiotic siblings: Alberto and Diego Giacometti
As a major survey opening this month at Tate Modern confirms, Alberto Giacometti’s reputation as a 20th-century great is assured. But his younger brother Diego’s role cannot be overlooked
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Death, destruction and deity: painting Guernica
As exhibition opens in Madrid, new research shows how Picasso was inspired by church paintings to create Spanish Civil War rallying cry
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Cerith Wyn Evans: Light Fantastic
As the Welsh artist fills Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries, ahead of showing in Venice and Münster later in the year, he talks about his varied inspirations, from Duchamp to Japanese Noh theatre
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The Antarctic Biennale: a crazy idea becomes reality
In little more than a year, the artists and scientists—and, crucially, the funds—have been gathered for a unique biennial. The journey begins this month
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The other lives of artists
The exhibition Michelangelo & Sebastiano at the National Gallery in London reflects the younger artist’s sharp decline in production once he became keeper of the papal seal. But second jobs did not stop Rubens and Velázquez painting
FeatureMuseums
The art machine: the Centre Pompidou at 40
As the Parisian cultural behemoth hits a landmark anniversary, figures from the world of art and architecture discuss its legacy