The Jewish Museum in New York is celebrating the work of the women who powered the Wiener Werkstätte, the Vienna workshop that revolutionised modern design in the early 20th century.
Eve M. Kahn is thrilled by their creative efforts.
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Anne Vallayer-Coster was as successful an artist as a woman in 18th-century France could be – and her paintings display a quietly competitive attitude towards her male peers, writes Michael Prodger.
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‘AI has turned the flow of images into a tsunami; Jafa’s aesthetic, a kind of visual ADHD, mirrors the malaise’.
Sukhdev Sandhu on the New Museum’s Arthur Jafa retrospective.
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‘The curators come as close as anyone to rehabilitating Renoir as a great artist.’
Sam Kitchener reviews the National Gallery’s survey of the most divisive of the Impressionists.
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As the National Theatre in London marks the 50th anniversary of its South Bank home, Denys Lasdun’s landmark building has lost none of its drama, writes Will Wiles.
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In everyday language, the word ‘curated’ suggests an element of falsehood as much as care.
Hettie Judah asks what this can tell us about the curator’s role in contemporary art
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The collector Gustave Fayet, who bought Post-Impressionists by the score, was also a prolific artist in his own right – and both sides of his insatiable appetite are now on show at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, writes Richard Pound.
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Salman Toor’s borrowing from Rembrandt, Manet and other artists is made clear at the Courtauld, where his works hang near some of the masterpieces that inspired them – and more than hold their own.
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From mega collectors and Tate Modern and the YBAs and Shoreditch parties, the 1990s was a defining era for the London art scene.
Jane Morris reflects on a decade of daring and decadence.
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Before establishing the Soho restaurant that bears his name, Andrew Edmunds was a keen collector of satirical British prints.
Michael Delgado remembers what it was like to work in the same building, when artistic gossip was always on the menu
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Dinosaur skeletons are commanding higher and higher prices at auction, but should these ancient artefacts really be sold off as trophies to billionaires?
Anna Brady reports.
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Chequers has been the British prime minister’s official country residence for more than a century.
Juliet Carey, former curator at the house, takes us on a tour
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‘Get close to a Tintoretto and the intelligence of his process, not just its much-vaunted energy, becomes clear.’
The verve and originality of the Venetian painter are on full display at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris, writes Ben Street.
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The Bank of England asked the public what animals it wants to see on new banknotes – and the results are now in.
But, as Debika Ray reports, it’s not the only central bank cashing in high-achieving humans for wildlife.
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Roy Lichtenstein’s bold, pop culture-inspired work arrived with a bang in the 1960s, but the artist was also responding to earlier revolutions, writes Charles Darwent
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Rakewell gives the artist Allison Ksiazkiewicz a round of a-paws for designing 12 vases depicting the history of pedigree breeds in a somewhat Attic manner.
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The October issue of Apollo is out now, featuring:
• the explosive genius of Roy Lichtenstein
• how London’s art scene took off in the 1990s
• why dinosaurs rule at auction
• an insider’s view of Chequers
And much more.
See full contents here:
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‘Korean pop culture is so hot right now, and we wanted to explore where that energy is coming from.’
Curator Sang-ah Kim talks to Lucy Waterson about the British Museum’s survey of 2,000 years of Korean art
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By the early 19th century, Hull was one of the key maritime hubs in Britain and the centre of the whaling industry.
At the city’s newly renovated maritime museum, Matthew Kerr revels in a collection of dockworkers’ tools, scrimshaw and much besides.
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The experimental images made by Wanda and Marion Wulz in the interwar years show these Italian women revelling in their personal and creative autonomy, writes Lucy Davies
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