William Orbit: “If you confound Madonna, a red mist comes down”
The producer worked his magic with Britney Spears, All Saints and Blur. In his sixties a drug binge and breakdown…
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Immerse yourself in the world of art with our captivating collection of articles, featuring artist profiles, art movements, exhibitions, and critical discussions that celebrate the creativity and inspiration of talented artists from various disciplines.
The soft power of Dolly Parton
The country singer and philanthropist has been given $100m by Jeff Bezos for her charities. What might she do with…
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Norman Wilkinson and the fine art of advertising
The British artist used his design skills to transform both battleships and railway posters.
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Londoners must stop complaining about arts cuts – culture exists outside the M25 too
The Arts Council England portfolio is a significant shift in the funding of culture across the country. But it corrects…
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English National Opera is a cultural lifeline – but we have been decimated by cuts
Arts Council England’s withdrawal of our general funding will have reverberations across the entire arts ecosystem.
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Hercules Segers: the visionary printmaker who inspired Rembrandt
The 17th-century Dutch artist saw etching as a way to conjure strange imaginary realms.
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Mondrian’s upside down masterpiece is a reminder that art is completely subjective
The story of the 75-year-old mistake tells us less about the artwork, and more about ourselves.
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How horror changed modern art
Contemporary artists have long used the genre to react against the terrors of modern Britain – from the 1970s to…
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Caroline Herschel’s celestial discoveries
Photographs of 560 “missing” stars shine a light on the pioneering Georgian astronomer who identified them.
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Fashion and fetishism: the drawings of Henry Fuseli
The artist’s renderings of women’s hair depict both the chic and the suggestive.
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“Global problems must be tackled through global collaboration”: Ai Weiwei on his New Statesman cover
The artist explains the thinking behind his original work, and how art can help in the fight against climate change.
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Van Gogh would have loved his soup-covered Sunflowers – and so should we
Safe protest stunts raise the profile of the climate crisis and ask us to think about the bigger picture.
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The Cézanne conundrum
A new exhibition at the Tate Modern shows how a painter condemned in his own time as a barbarian became…
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Lucian Freud’s pitiless style
The painter was a scrupulous observer of bodies, who refused to demean his art by flattering his subjects.
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How MK Čiurlionis painted sound
The Dulwich Picture Gallery’s exhibition of the Lithuanian composer’s art reveals a dreamlike, kaleidoscopic inner world.
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Why we shouldn’t sanctify David Bowie
The new Bowie documentary, Moonage Daydream, is a hagiography that diminishes rather than enhances our understanding of the man and…
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How Homogenic brought Björk into focus
Twenty-five years after its release, the Icelander’s third album sounds as urgent as ever.
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Portraits of a Queen
From regal paintings to punk collages, images of Elizabeth II have alternately humanised and glorified her.
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Albert Bierstadt unveiled the epic vistas of the American West
The German-born painter cast light on the extraordinary beauty of his adopted homeland.
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason: “The cello is a part of you”
The 23-year-old has already played for the royals and tackled the Elgar Cello Concerto. Where does he go from here?
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