Art
Frida Kahlo, Overexplained
From self-portraits to socks, Tate Modern explores Kahlo’s afterlife as a feminist, queer, political and commercial icon.
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ArtTech Isn't Art on Screens. It's Five Startups to Know Before 2026 Is Out.
What's actually happening while everyone argues about whether AI can paint. Review from ArtTech specialist, currently Digital Project Manager at the National Gallery, London.
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True devotion doesn't always look glamorous. Michael, a musical biopic about the King of pop
The film begins in 1966, when Michael Jackson was eight years old. By that time, The Jackson 5 had been rehearsing and giving small concerts for at least three years. Their abusive father Joe (Colman Domingo) ruthlessly trains five boys and beats them — especially Michael — for any «mistake». And from
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The Man Who Made Pools Worth $90 Million: David Hockney's Most Valuable Works
On 11 June, just a month before his 89th birthday, David Hockney died at the age of 88. An artist who managed to unite the British intellectual tradition with a deep knowledge of European culture and a distinctive sense of irony, Hockney leaves behind one of the most influential bodies
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Monumental terracotta will glitch and glow at Belgrade's Silosi
Somewhere between the brutalist concrete of Silosi cultural space in Belgrade and the fired clay of a small town of Kikinda, something unusual is taking shape. Pearl Made of Clay is a retrospective of 45 years of the International Sculpture Symposium Terra, presented by Terra Center for Fine and Applied
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Bad Romance: How horrors about toxic relationships became the new mainstream
«Obsession», «I Have a Very Bad Feeling About This» and other examples of a new genre
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What’s Wrong With the ‘Female Gaze’?
How the internet sanitised the public image of female lust
Personalities
Interview with London Vegetable Orchestra
Over the past 18 months, the group has quietly turned into one of Britain’s most unexpected cultural success stories. They gained over 40,000 followers online, performed on BBC Radio 3 (twice), ITV, Channel 5, and more and started appearing everywhere from garden shows to festivals across the UK.
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Why Everyone Is Suddenly Reading Yesteryear?
It’s been a while since I last had a book that made me leave a party early.
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Why artists should be in Yerevan this summer
Yerevan is not the city you think it is — if you think of it at all. Armenia's creative industries are booming, nearly doubling in value over the last decade. Independent platforms, cross-disciplinary communities, a vibrant art scene: all of it taking shape in real time, in a
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The Quiet Ones
There is a taxonomy of survival that Milan enacts every April. Most people miss it. They are occupied following the scent of prosecco and flashy installations to notice what persists underneath— the city's older, quieter argument for what design means. This year, amid the derivative choreography of branded
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Rough Trade at 50
London, February 1976. Former drama teacher Geoff Travis had left his job, weary of a life spent encouraging students to pretend they were trees and speak from the diaphragm. The UK music charts were boring. Country and western yodeller Slim Whitman’s collection, ‘The Very Best of Slim Whitman’, was