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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How Battersea Power Station became a palace of consumerism
After decades of refurbishment, the power station reopens today as the home of £18m flats and a luxury complex of…
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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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