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Dancer Sergei Polunin sits for sculptor Frances Segelman
The dancer Sergei Polunin shot to international fame when in 2010 he became the Royal Ballet’s youngest ever principal. Two years later he resigned saying he had become so unhappy that, “the artist in me was dying.” Since then he has...
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Controversial Donald Trump art
Donald Trump has become the inspiration for many performers and artists around the world, but he's not amused
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British museum honours Siksika artist
The prestigious museum is putting a new work by Adrian Stimson on display
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Digital portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra
At the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, artists are challenging the traditional concept of portraits as paintings or photographs. They are embracing the digital world instead. Seven artists made it to the final of the 2016 Digital...
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Glamorous divas and sensual women in the Gerda Wegener exhibition in Denmark
The unusual story of a love between a painter and her muse that transcends gender boundaries is also the subtitle of the current exhibition ‘Gerda Wegener’, presented by the Danish Art Museum Arken near Copenhagen. Flirting girls,...
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Go Public: Artist discovers 'stolen' work on shirts being sold at Winners
Jody Edwards was shocked to discover shirts with her artwork on them were being sold at big department stores
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Van Gogh sketches disputed
A lost sketchbook by Vincent van Gogh has been revealed to much excitement. But a museum says the drawings are fakes
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Van Gogh book of drawings slammed as fake
An extraordinary row has broken out over a new book that claims to contain previously unpublished drawings by Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh. ‘The Lost Arles Sketchbook’, collated by Canadian art historian Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov, shows...
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Do you look like your dog?
It is often said that people look like their pets. Now visitors to the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra have a chance to find out. The Popular Pet Show is a collection of 160 paintings, drawings and sculptures of Australians with...
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Madrid’s International Jazz Festival hears Robin McKelle’s “The Looking Glass”
Madrid’s International Jazz Festival continues, and Robin McKelle is the latest artist to have picked up rave reviews. She came to Spain to perform some of the songs from her new album released last March. ‘The Looking Glass’ is...
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Robert Wilson lights up the Panza Collection at its home near Milan
Robert Wilson is honouring two of Europe’s most important art collectors. Giuseppe Panza and wife Rosa began collecting in the 1950s, and now the American visual artist and theatre director has filled their old home with video portraits...
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Hungarian dramedy wins Best Feature in Thessaloniki
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival, one of the oldest in Europe, has come to a close. This 57th edition was the first under the leadership of general director Elise Jalladeau, a French film producer, and artistic director,...
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Living canvasses: from 3D to 2D
3D may be all the craze, but US artist Alexa Meade is bucking the trend. Her goal is to make the three-dimensional world around her look two-dimensional. She paints directly onto her subjects, from head-to-toe, replicating depth and...
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Giant ‘vacuum cleaner’ could fight pollution
When Daan Roosegaarde visited Beijing three years ago, all he could see from his window was smog. The Dutch artist decided to act, and created an innovative solution – a seven-meter high metal structure that contains an air-purifying...
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Graffiti artist takes over Paris château
A French street artist has been given carte blanche to show his work at the Château de Vincennes, on the edge of Paris. Entitled ‘Noir Eclair’ (‘Black Lightning’) it includes installations, graffiti, videos paintings, sculptures and...
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Art and humour mix at Frieze London
Paintings, sculptures, performances – more than 160 of the world’s leading galleries are showcasing their works at Frieze London, one of the most important contemporary art fairs in the world. Mixing creations by both emerging and...
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Nate Parker interview cut short after sexual assault questions
CBC's Eli Glasner asks uncomfortable questions of The Birth of a Nation director, writer, and actor Nate Parker and gets shut down
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The best cultural events in Europe
42nd Deauville Film Festival, France DEAUVILLE FRANCE > 11.09 The biggest American film festival in Europe, the 42nd edition of Deauville, has 14 features in competition. The festival aims to promote mainly independent movies. This year...
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The Raubdruckerin turn Berlin’s unique streets into wearable art
Berlin street art is alive and well and a team of artists known as Raubdruckerin. have come up with a unique way of creating textile pattens. They paint manhole covers, grids etc then take a print to form the designs. Emma France Raff...
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Teen with Autism Becomes Art Sensation
Thirteen year-old Niam Jain can't speak. He's autistic. But he's learned to communicate through painting. And art experts are blown away.
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Spain: Ai Weiwei and ‘The Poetry of Freedom’
Cuenca, a fortified medieval city in central Spain is hosting an exhibition entitled ‘The Poetry of Freedom’ as part of a nationwide celebration of the 400th anniversary of the death of ‘Don Quixote’ author Miguel de Cervantes....
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What they really really want is gender equality
20 years on, artists have teamed up to remake the video for the Spice Girls’ debut track, “Wannabe”. This time around, “Girl power” – is promoted by highlighting a series of U.N. global goals for women and girls. Lire: [Publicité] Ad...
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Beauty from destruction – Federico Uribe creates life-like animals from used bullets
Colombian-born artist Federico Uribe has been exhibiting in New York his powerful animal sculptures made out of used bullet shells. The artist says his work is inspired by the decades-long conflict between the Colombian government and...
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Soko and Lily-Rose Depp star in ‘The Dancer’
French biographical musical drama ‘The Dancer’ is based on the life of American dancer Loie Fuller who found fame in Paris in the late 1800s. Director Stephanie Di Giusto chose singer and actress Soko to play the lead. “I’ve known her...