By Guardian Arts · about 1 hour ago
Man arrested after admitting to taking relic from church and planning to throw it in river, say police An 800-year-old relic believed to be the skull of Saint Zdislava, stolen this week from a Czech church, has been…
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By Guardian Arts · about 1 hour ago
Britain seems to finally have an eye for art from the Asia-Pacific, with several big recent exhibitions, including the new Rising Voices show at the V&A. Why did it take so long? An imposing new figure is greeting…
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By Guardian Arts · about 2 hours ago
The fact a queer, working-class person of colour has won the Deutsche Börse prize is cheering, but what is on display at the Photographers’ Gallery resembles a student’s Tumblr feed Peterborough artist Rene Matić wins…
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By Guardian Arts · about 3 hours ago
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
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By Guardian Arts · about 4 hours ago
The performance artist was a brilliantly subversive pioneer whose work exposed the predicament of women living in a world that was not made for us • Renowned feminist artist and film-maker Valie Export dies aged 85…
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By Guardian Arts · about 5 hours ago
Hockney and more explore gender in Liverpool, Delcy Morelos makes mud spectacular and Whistler’s Mother goes on tour – all in your weekly dispatch James McNeill Whistler The brilliant American who took Victorian…
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By Guardian Arts · about 5 hours ago
The annual New York-based display of photography contains moving pictures from behind bars and a revealing look at trans lives back in the 1990s For the 15th installment of the annual Photoville festival, which sees…
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By Guardian Arts · about 6 hours ago
Eight decades after liberation from the Nazis, silence, shame and a struggling legal system keep Jewish property in Dutch family homes Several months ago, the Dutch art detective Arthur Brand was surprised to be…
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By Guardian Arts · about 8 hours ago
The Photo London Emerging Photographer Award, presented in partnership with Nikon, launched in 2015 and was set up to nurture and enable the career development of emerging photographic artists. The shortlisted work for…
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By Guardian Arts · about 8 hours ago
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading...
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By Guardian Arts · about 10 hours ago
From a converted art deco hotel in Glasgow to a brutalist apartment in London’s Barbican Continue reading...
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By Guardian Arts · about 14 hours ago
Artist owner of iconic stilt-mounted 1980s Ball-Eastaway House near Sydney prepares to pass on custodianship The house teaches you things, Lynne Eastaway says. Today, a choir of cicadas fill the scrub with a rhythm…
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Glenn Murcutt pioneered architecture that was sensitive to its environment, and accomodating to changing temperatures and wildlife The house teaches you things, Lynne Eastaway says. Today, a choir of cicadas fill the…
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By Guardian Arts · about 17 hours ago
Export’s performances scandalised Austria in the 1960s, but are now recognised for exposing the objectification of the female body Valie Export, the Austrian performance artist and film-maker who inverted the male gaze…
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By Guardian Arts · about 21 hours ago
Photographer recognised for Berlin exhibition that documented queer love, nationalism and subcultures Rene Matić, whose work unpicks modern British identity and has been described as “the Wolfgang Tillmans of their…
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