How Christopher Wren built Britain
He became the nation’s greatest architect – but studied astronomy and anatomy first. To Wren, building was a three-dimensional science.
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Fifty years after Picasso’s death, we still struggle with the figure of the monstrous genius
The Musée Picasso Paris’s collaboration with Paul Smith attempts to reframe the great artist. Plus: another backlash for the BBC.
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Peter Doig’s dreamscapes
In his sumptuous and strange paintings, the globetrotting Scottish artist unpicks reality to make it his own.
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David Hockney’s fascination with technology
From Polaroid montages and iPad pictures to a new “immersive” exhibition, the artist’s technophilia has produced works of wildly varying…
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Emmanuel Macron is right to want to return African art to Africa
He just needs to do it faster.
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Artwork from a nation under attack
Whether sketching in bomb shelters or escaping the capital with unruly pets, Ukrainian illustrators and artists bear witness to the…
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At MoMa, I saw an artwork that moved me – made by a machine
Refik Anadol’s Unsupervised is a glorious introduction to art by artificial intelligence. Plus: the rise of cultural Russophobia.
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Sarah Lucas: “I didn’t want to spend my life angry”
The artist on feminism, the importance of humour, and being a Young British Artist at 60.
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