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Plant power: Maya cylinder vase (AD700-800) showing a king wearing a water lily headdressPhoto: © Museum of Fine Arts, BostonArchaeologists have posited that water lilies were used to clean ancient…
Artist Ziva Jelin points to a bullet-hole in her painting The Curving Road, part of damage it suffered on 7 October Photo: Zohar Shemesh, courtesy Israel Museum, JerusalemArt began disappearing…
The MoMA Postcard pixel grid image Silver Convex Stroke, for which the poet Sasha Stiles was the “prompting artist”—the first of 15 co-owners and co-creators Courtesy MoMAThe Museum of Modern…
A visitor to Frieze Masters 2023Courtesy of Frieze“I don’t think I’ve experienced a more difficult time for our art market than now,” said Anthony Browne, the chairman of the British…
In May, Mitsotakis won the Greek general election, securing around 40% of the vote. Photo: Presidential Executive Office of Russia via Wikimedia CommonsThe Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is piling further…
Portrait of Pope.LPhoto: Peyton FulfordPope.L may not call himself one of the most influential performance artists working in the US today, but he has been known to pass out business cards declaring…
Van Gogh’s The Fortifications of Paris with Houses (summer 1887)Credit: The Whitworth, University of Manchester (photograph Michael Pollard)Adventures with Van Gogh is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey, our long-standing…
Kablusiak is the grand prize winner of the C$100,000 2023 Sobey Art Award National Gallery of Canada, OttawaThe starving artist may be a thing of the past, but it sure…
Robert Clark Templeton, Rosalynn Smith Carter, 1976, pastel on illustration board National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; donated by Mark, Kevin and Tim Templeton, sons of the artistIn memory of former…
The British pavilion in VeniceCourtesy of British Council The global art fair and magazine brand Frieze will sponsor the British pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (20 April-24 November 2024).…