Comment | Is England’s arts establishment set for a revolution?
Spare a thought for our friends at Arts Council England (ACE). This summer they have been reviewing a record 1,730 ...
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Comment | Art and food in the nude: my liberating experience at an underground culture club
Perhaps standing around with a group of naked strangers is its own ice-breaker. With clothes left on the sofas behind ...
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Comment | The conservation studio is the coalface of art history—but not all ‘restorations’ can be solved with acetone
I love the smell of acetone in the morning. One of the things I missed most during the pandemic were ...
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Comment | Art in the shadow of war: curating a show at Latvia’s Mark Rothko Art Centre
We stand around 80 miles from the Russian border, 20 miles from Belarus, near where NATO wants to up its ...
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Comment | Three years after censorship meeting, Meta is still not listening to artists
“Instagram has a problem and I think I know what it is,” stated the artist Betty Tompkins in a letter ...
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Comment | Virtual reality brings convenience and practicality to art—but it is more than just a gimmick
Personally, I associate Venice with death and inconvenience. Thomas Mann, that great explorer of what it means to be modern, ...
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Comment | Ukraine fundraiser shines intriguing light on art, wealth—and a flexible approach to morality
The very rich men and women were invited to walk through a dark passage studded with abandoned detritus and tank ...
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