The East London group sees their life drawing sessions “as a natural progression from the age-old practice of hiring professional harlots and hussies as models for art.”
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Archaeologists Reconstruct Ancient Roman “Jigsaw Puzzle”
The thousands of fragments once formed an enormous fresco that decorated around 20 walls in a building in central London.
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The Sensual Irreverence of Milly Thompson
Throughout her work, we see women attempting to free themselves from the entanglements of patriarchy.
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Edvard Munch Was a Magician of Light
A show at London’s National Portrait Gallery reveals the artist’s astonishing technical skills, but the wall texts are laugh-out-loud amusing at best and art historically dangerous at worst.
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The Private Calligraphy of Henri Michaux
The poet turned to psychedelics to discover the nature of his own consciousness, producing inscrutable drawings that alternately vibrate until they blur, or wash gently to and fro.
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A Giant Vulva Is Walking the Streets of Europe
Dressed in flowing pink robes, artist and activist Dee Mulrooney — or “Growler” — is urging the British Museum to return a Síle na Giġ statue back to Ireland.
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When Modernity Grabbed Poetry By Its Heels
Feeling, intuiting the swing, sway, and pressures of life, with all its tumult, its blare, its bounce, and its heave, were what really counted in modern poetry.
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The Courtauld’s Impressionism Show Is a Victim of Corporate Curating
It seems that the philanthropic funds that enable shows like this are at the expense of art historical depth and integrity, perhaps even curators’ jobs.
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Linder’s Monstrous Pop Cultural Assemblages
The artist’s surgical photomontages offer insight into the gendered desire and commercialism at the heart of patriarchal capitalism.
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What’s at the Heart of Our Tarot Fascination?
An exhibition at the Warburg Institute proposes that tarot brings forth a smart mixture of play and ancient wisdom that might help us juggle our reality.
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The Violent and Sensual Bodies of Galli
The artist’s ambiguous figures exist in a continual state of metamorphosis between formation and deformation.
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The Mughal Empire’s Paradise on Earth
An exhibition showcases the sophisticated cultural language developed in the Indian subcontinent from around 1560 to 1660 across the reign of three emperors.