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Is God Dead? Ben Caplan Takes Stock

The sense of historical evolution removes from us a responsibility of safeguarding the hard-won victories of the last 100 years... interview with Hirsute folksinging historian Ben Caplan ...

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In the Silence Electric: Julie’s Haircut

Grooves so epic they'll flap your flares for hours on end. Review of In the Silence Electric by Italian Psych veterans Julie's Haircut....

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Anticipating John Hoyland at the Tate

Anticipating John Hoyland at Tate, Natalie Andrews is thinking about the contemporary relevance of slow art. ...

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Chapters by Penguin Cafe Orchestra [Video]

The captivating new single-shot video for ‘Chapter’ was filmed in New York on The Roosevelt Island Tramway at Queensboro Bridge. ...

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Artists Unite for Major Exhibition Against Arms Fair

The award-winning Art the Arms Fair coincides with the DSEI arms fair, one of the biggest such events in the world....

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Firmament by Niccolo Moronato

Firmament by Niccolo Moronato is an ongoing artistic exploration of an alternative “side” of the sky. ...

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Filmmaker Eugenio Polgovsky First Full UK Retrospective

The award-winning Mexican filmmaker is best known for his innovative documentaries which chronicle the struggles of Mexico’s indigenous population against environmental threats and societal...

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Helen Beard Largest Solo Exhibition to Date

It's Her Factory introduces a new body of Beard’s large-scale, vibrant works that examine contemporary portrayals of sexuality, and reclaim ownership over the body from the male gaze....

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Largest Solo Presentation to Date of British Artist Sam Lock

Now/here showcases Lock’s affinity with ‘process art’, marking him out as a leading contemporary exponent of this methodology. ...

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Umberto Boccioni: Recreating the Lost Sculptures

Using a combination of vintage photographic material and cutting-edge 3D printing techniques, digital artists Matt Smith and Anders Rådén have recreated four of Boccioni’s destroyed works....

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First Ever Survey of Honey-Suckle Company Works

Omnibus presents key aspects of Honey-Suckle Company’s work, revealing the group’s past, present and future through an amalgamation of existing works within new installations....

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Nostalgia and Vibrant Imagery at 50th Rencontres d’Arles

This year, the organisers undertook the unprecedented task of identifying, ranking, and inventorying their vast archives to turn them into a major retrospective exhibition....

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Art Money July : British Landscape Painters Plateau at Sotheby’s

In the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition of 1808, J.M.W Turner made a rare misfire. British Landscape Painters Plateau at Sotheby’s: Trebuchet July Market Roundup...

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Emii Alrai Presents Tutelaries in London Solo Debut

A new installation of sculptures echo ancient tombs and their spiritual presence to express the concept of safety usually associated with a sacred location.  ...

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Time and Space in video art and installation: James Alec Hardy

Space, construction, dying technologies and the rich rituals at the end of all things - James Alec Hardy...

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Lost Souls of Saturn’s Art Installation Comes to Saatchi Gallery

Sweet Harmony, the first exhibition celebrating rave culture to take place in a major art institution, will recapture the new world that emerged from the acid house scene....

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Artist Martin Roth Dead at 41

Roth’s last solo exhibition was centred on a desert plant stolen from the garden of Stephen Paddock, the man behind the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival....

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Art Money June : Unearthing Unseen Art

The International Art Market in June: Unearthing Unseen Art at London’s 20th Century Week and #MeToo Controversy at Art Basel...

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Flaneurism and Found Things

The collages of Richard Hill...

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Breeze Art and Makers Fair Announced for This September

The fair is a celebration of unique craft from a specially selected collection of artists from around the South West....

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Galerie da-End: What Ticks

Theatrical declarations and curated authenticity. Galerie Da-End: The mystery and the multidisciplinary...

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The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy

Andrew Edmunds deals in antique political prints. In this show at the Royal Academy, the works he shows stand up well to contemporary art and its political ambitions. ...

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First London Show for Millo in Over Six Years

The influential Italian street artist will intertwine his works with Japanese painter Hikari Shimoda in a double solo show at Dorothy Circus Gallery....

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Contentious Polish Artist Kle Mens Brings Dark Catholic Critique to East London

In her first UK solo show, the artist summons both religious martyrs and mythological hybrids to evoke the force of female transformation, which underlies all her work. ...

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Occupying: Les Enragés to Los Indignados

Occupying Space Across Time: Prof. Martin Lang investigates occupation from Les Enragés to Los Indignados...

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First UK Retrospective of Donald Sultan

Dark Objects: Works 1977-2019 is comprised of 17 works and features three canvasses from the American figurative painter's seminal Disaster Paintings series. ...

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Science Museum Group Call for Art Submissions

The Science Museum Group, in collaboration with contemporary art commissioners Foreground, is seeking creative responses to its ambitious project to construct a new collection management facility at...

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Precious Nothing Pt 3: I Ching

Space-time contains value on all human levels of understanding so where do we sit with it? ...

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Well Hi There Jazztronica

The new EP captures the essence of what made Xover so memorable while also pushing the Blue Lab Beats sonic into new territory. ...

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Lichtenstein Panel Created for Gunter Sachs Set for Auction

Composition, one of only three unique porcelain enamel works, was created to outfit the German photographer's bedroom suite in his notorious pop art apartment....

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