The novelist issues a inspiring call for artists to exercise their autonomy in a world of gatekeepers
In 1988, the late Ghanaian writer and filmmaker Kwesi Owusu edited Storms of the Heart: An Antholo…
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Art gallery where Princess Eugenie is a director is cleared of breaching Russian sanctions over sale of painting ○
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Hauser & Wirth, which Eugenie has been the director of since 2015, and a shipping company faced charges after they sold a piece of art to a man named Alexander Popov.
18 days ago
Tall tales: the gumtree in art – in pictures ⊕
A new exhibition at Melbourne’s Potter Museum of Art celebrates the cultural and ecological significance of the eucalypt. Translating as ‘breathing for us’ in Woi Wurrung, the show Ngarn Wa’ngal brin…
19 days ago
Contrapposto by Dave Eggers review – this portrait of an artist falls flat ⊕
The story of a lifelong friendship between two art-world mavericks from the working-class midwest is disappointingly pious
Dave Eggers, the author of more than a dozen novels as well as a steady strea…
31 days ago
Baffled Iranian negotiators 'are reading Trump's The Art of the Deal to try and understand why he threatens to "bomb the s*** out of them" while negotiating ceasefire' ⊖
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Baffled Iranian diplomats are reading Donald Trump's book, 'The Art of the Deal', in an attempt to understand his aggressive and often erratic negotiation strategy.
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‘Distressingly beautiful and disorienting’: the Willem Dafoe film that only one person can see at a time ○
A porter escorted Nick Buckley to his seat in an empty theatre in Hobart. Loris Gréaud’s new movie, part of Dark Mofo festival, left him questioning everything
Leanne is first in line on Saturday, sta…
42 days ago
Painting bought for $100 in US charity shop sells for £190,000 ⊕
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Art teacher Helene Plotkin bought the work in White Plans, New York in 1966, unaware it was by Scottish Colourist FCB Cadell.
‘He outlived four of his doctors’: David Hockney loved smoking, he really really loved smoking ⊕⊕
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His passion got him into scraps with the Paris Metro and numerous other bodies. Was it a social crutch? A Freudian response to his father? And why did he take such delight in writing to the Guardian …
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Art collector loses battle against selling ban on phallic surrealist sculpture because it contains part of 165-year-old elephant tusk ⊖
Devon-based expert Victor James was told the 1930s piece falls foul of the UK Ivory Act and therefore cannot be traded as it contains part of a 165-year-old tusk.
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Cupcakes, bunting and a bus stuck in the mud: the funeral of Martin Parr – in pictures ○
The photographer loved to record the small details of life, so it was only fitting that his family should organise a send-off inspired by his work. ‘Funerals can be really beautiful,’ says the person…