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Death, death everywhere: the grim reaper's on the loose in galleries |...
Representations of death multiply at moments when art has something important to say. Is that what's happening now?Death is stalking the art galleries. An exhibition called From Death to Death is soon...
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Why I'm seduced by Cindy Sherman's Sex Pictures
Sumptuous, serious and utterly unerotic, Sherman's pseudo-pornographic body parts amount to more than just sex artCindy Sherman's Sex Pictures are just not sexy enough. Well, they are not sexy at all,...
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Antony Gormley: a model of hype?
Could it be that now the artist has fallen off the art world's fashion hitlist, Gormley's work can be seen as it is – quotidian and overratedRumours reach me that people are just a bit, well, bored of...
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Sorry MoMA, video games are not art
Exhibiting Pac-Man and Tetris alongside Picasso and Van Gogh will mean game over for any real understanding of artThere needs to be a word for the overly serious and reverent praise of digital games by...
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Picasso in Paris: raw works of genius from the artist as a young man
A scintillating new show at London's Courtauld Gallery follows a coming-of-age Picasso as he dips his paintbrush into the colourful underworld of MontmartreRaw young genius burns gloriously in Becoming...
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Why American modern art blows British talent out of the water
Watch out Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Roy Lichtenstein are coming to galleries in the UK and their ideas are bold and breathtakingly originalAmerican art shines...
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Barocci's drawings blow me away
I lost interest in the Renaissance artist's paintings at the National Gallery, but his drawings reveal a flirtatious sexuality – and show his genius for getting round Catholic church censorshipI crept...
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Andy Warhol lost then found: tender portrait of artist in 1981
British photographer Steve Wood saw the truth about Warhol, writes Jonathan JonesAndy Warhol went out of his way to be misunderstood. He wore shocking wigs, posed behind dark glasses and made laconic...
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Ashes to ashes: time to lay David Bowie nostalgia to rest
The capital is beset by art exhibitions idolising Ziggy's creator. But when I was recently bereaved I realised that Bowie's songs have nothing universal to sayAnother week, another David Bowie...
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Christine Keeler's nude photograph: still sexy and subversive, 50 years on
The notorious post-Profumo shot, now on show at the National Portrait Gallery, has long inspired artists to take a pop at sexismAn iconic nude has just gone on view at the National Portrait Gallery....
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Van Gogh's true colours were originally even brighter
Research undertaken by the Van Gogh Museum reveals the master's favourite paints have faded badly since the 1880sVincent van Gogh has a good claim to be the greatest colourist ever. His yellows, his...
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Jeff Koons: art's king of pop reigns on at the Gagosian
Good riddance to Damien Hirst; Larry Gagosian has held on to his real treasure with a typically provocative Koons show opening at the dealer's Manhattan space on 9 MayThe art dealer Larry Gagosian has...
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Seeing stars: the astonishing art of space photography
A new display at London's National Maritime Museum makes Time Lords of us all – without us having to leave the groundThis is the age when we crossed the final frontier. This is the moment when human...
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Marc Chagall: should Tate Liverpool really call him a 'modern master'?
He was an artist of the modern age but, as a new exhibition shows, his eyes were fixed upon a vanishing Jewish pastMarc Chagall is a modern master. Isn't he? That's the title of a new Tate Liverpool...
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Beanotown: an imaginary world filled with menaces, minxes and dodgers
The Southbank Centre's Festival of Neighbourhood pays homage to Dennis and Gnasher, the Bash St Kids and the comic-book geniuses who created themDennis the Menace greets visitors at the door, which...
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Look and learn: live art screenings, a new global phenomenon
Just occasionally, something will crop up that restores your faith in humanity's future. The huge appetite for cinematic 'private views' hosted by experts is one such thingThe phenomenon of live art...
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Tate Britain's Painting Now exhibition: how can painting ever belong to 'now'?
The title of this forthcoming London show makes it sound as if these artists do their work between tweeting a brilliant remark on the Egypt situation and heading to Berlin for a gigPainting Now …...
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Art o'clock: Conrad Shawcross turns the Roundhouse into one giant timepiece
From next week, the sculptor's new light installation will transform the venue into a vast sundialTime twists and curves. It is different for you and me. It might even be an illusion. With all these...
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Picasso in Paris: raw works of genius from the artist as a young man
A scintillating new show at London's Courtauld Gallery follows a coming-of-age Picasso as he dips his paintbrush into the colourful underworld of MontmartreRaw young genius burns gloriously in Becoming...
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Why American modern art blows British talent out of the water
Watch out Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Roy Lichtenstein are coming to galleries in the UK and their ideas are bold and breathtakingly originalAmerican art shines...
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