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Hockney exhibition offers intimate snapshot of the Los Angeles art world
British artist David Hockney has returned to the Royal Academy of Arts in London with a new exhibition titled Eighty-two Portraits and One Still-life. This new body of work sees the artist revisiting the genre of portraiture which has...
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A White House in Basel: Ai Wei Wei installation looms large at Swiss art event
Ai Wei’s Wei’s temple-like ‘White House’ is one of the main attractions of Art Basel’s Unlimited section, a space focusing on big art, featuring massive sculptures and paintings, video projections, large-scale installations, and live...
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Interactive Van Gogh exhibit opens in China
Vincent Van Gogh has come to China. A five-year tour that started this weekend in Beijing, Meet Vincent Van Gogh: Experience a journey through his life, is a multisensory exhibition of the Dutch painter’s life and masterpieces. The...
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Italian violin-making tunes up for a revival
It is one of the most erotic of instruments, central to Western classical music, and its finest examples can be hundreds of years old and worth millions. It is held in the hands like a baby, caressed, plucked and raked, and its sounds...
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Christo’s oil-barrel Mastaba dreams materialise in France
For 30 years, Bulgarian-born artist Christo has wanted to build a monumental ‘Mastaba’ – a type of ancient Egyptian tomb – out of oil barrels in the desert of Abu Dhabi. His project has just materialised on a smaller yet still impressive...
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Artist Ai WeiWei decries Europe’s “shameful” refugee crisis
The Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens is running a major exhibition of the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. Ai Weiwei at Cycladic is the artist’s first show within an archeological museum and in Greece. The aim is to present his...
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Banksy’s work on display in Rome
Works by the artist known as Banksy are going on display for the first time in Rome’s Palazzo Cipolla Museum. The unique exhibit – called War, Capitalism and Liberty http://www.warcapitalismandliberty.org/ features works taken from...
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Snakes on the Seine – Huang Yong Ping fills Grand Palais
The curators at the Grand Palais in Paris like to think big. Since 2007 they have challenged contemporary artists to fill the vast space under its glass roof. This year, the task of taking up the “Monumenta” exhibition gauntlet was given...
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Finding Nero: Rhineland State Museum looks to rehabilitate emperor
The Roman emperor Nero who ruled from 54AD to 68AD gets a lot of bad press. He’s often depicted as a tyrant who turned increasingly to the dark side towards the end of reign. Those were the years that mostly shaped the image of the...
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CBC's Shad remembers Prince
The rapper and CBC radio host on the influence of the American music icon, who died Thursday
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Prince plays intimate show in Toronto in 1997
John Northcott reports on Prince's performance at the 'Warehouse'
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Prince: Fans pay tribute to His Royal Purpleness
They turned in their hundreds to an impromptu street do and partied like it was 1999 after the news filtered out about the death of His Royal Purpleness, or the artists known as Prince. I Miss My Brother. Prince Was A Funny Cat. Great...
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‘Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse’
It has been a wildly popular exhibition, but now London’s Royal Academy of Art’s show, Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse is in its final days and you will have to rush to see it. Crowds have appreciated the impressionist...
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Ostrer portraits of offal celebrities in “Ego System” show
Donald Trump as seen by British artist James Ostrer is a dogs’ dinner of raw meat and surfaces with an unhealthy, microbiotic sheen. The U.S. Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has been pilloried and caricatured in many...
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Emin and Stone honeymoon in Hong Kong with new show
“I Cried Because I Love You” is the title of British artist Tracey Emin’s exhibition in Hong Kong. Once the “enfant terrible” of the Young British Artists in the 1990s, she is known for her autobiographical and confessional content....
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Trainor hopes “No” will prove it’s not all about that bass
She’s back and bubblier than ever. Meghan Trainor has a follow-up album to 2015’s smash “Title”. It’s called “Thank you”, and Trainor hopes it will cement her Grammy-winning success as Best New Artist. “No” is the album’s first single....
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Through the thought provoking lens of Andres Serrano
The Collection Lambert in Avignon, France is showing the work of American photographer Andres Serrano. He is a controversial figure and unique in the world of international photography. The powerful way his work depicts the modern world,...
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The ‘Not New Now’ art biennial in Marrakech
‘Not New Now’ is the theme of the art biennial in Marrakesh. Curator, Palestinian Reem Fadda, has taken the event back to its North African origins. The works are mainly from artists from the Arab World, the Mediterranean and Sub-Saharan...
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Tiggs Da Author: the next Pharrell
London-based poet, rapper and singer-songwriter Tiggs Da Author is following up his bouncy debut single ‘Georgia’ with the infectious ‘Run’ and a sunny video clip shot in Cape Town. For this latest offering, Tiggs enlisted the talents of...
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Shopping carts, selfie sticks and a changing earth – contemporary art in Jeddah
Jeddah’s annual contemporary art festival goes by the unusual name of 21, 39, inspired by the city’s latitude and longitude. National and international artists are invited to the Red Sea city for the week-long event. The theme this year...
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Taylor Swift at the double with Best Album Grammy Award
Stars from the world of popular music dressed up in LA for the 58th Grammy Awards. Grammy Cam Will Broadcast Live Video From Award Statue Itself During Ceremony #GRAMMYs #1001sd #1001news pic.twitter.com/V3D0SMU6MG— 100.1 Santo Domingo...
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René Angélil dies of cancer at 73
He transformed Céline Dion from little-known teen francophone chanteuse to international pop superstar
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Seniors Offered Arts Education
A California non-profit is offering seniors free college-level arts courses, which could improve cognitive function and well-being.
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Will.i.am: ‘Education is the best gun control’
Euronews recently caught up with seven-time Grammy award laureate Will.i.am as he performed in the French city of Lyon. The co-founder and frontman of the Black Eyed Peas talked to us about his childhood in a poor Los Angeles...