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Celia Paul's paintings are calm, reflective, and inviting.
As she prepares to open in a CircusFest show Sarah Cosset explains the history of the Chinese pole
"'The right function of every museum,' wrote John Ruskin, the influential 19th-century art and social critic, 'is the manifestation of what is lovely in the life of nature, and heroic in the…
"Where might you expect to find William Hogarth's fine and recently restored portraits of William and Elizabeth James, or a lobby-filling Roman floor-mosaic from Antioch that depicts a livel…
Selena Fillinger's 2017 American play Faceless, inspired by a true court case about a 19-year-old Denver court case who tried to fly to Syria to join Isis in 2014, gets its European premiere…
That's (obviously?) not a good thing for actual Aboriginal artists in Australia. But there's no law against it. The chair of Western Australia's Aboriginal Art Hub "said the current Indigeno…
He had been trying to sell his apartment since the election, but no one would buy it. "Mr. Brassner, 67, lived alone amid a collection of about 100 vintage electric guitars, 40 guitar amplif…
With the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room reopening after refurbishment, Rupert Thomson tells Lyn Gardner how the Southbank Centre's eclectic events
Just whoa: "Alexander Calder, who famously rejected the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1976 as a form of protest against the Vietnam War, would be extremely surprised to learn that the con…
Who can afford to be an art historian, or a curator? "The Brooklyn Museum job was advertised as a part-time position for a limited period. 'It goes without saying that for many, this kind of…
"Under the terms of the deal, the museum can sell all 40 works - but with one major caveat. Once the proceeds from the sale reach $55 million, it cannot sell any more art. Furthermore, Norma…
Original curating, while not endangered, is becoming increasingly rare. It is becoming common practice for museums to program curatorial set pieces: canned exhibitions that are pre-packaged …
John Logan's Duet of Acrobatic Thinkers by Ross Callahan What leaps out at me from "Red"? Their sudden bursts of anger. The vitriol! Rothko slamming down his paint brush, immediately echoing…
Great things come from humble beginnings. Change and growth are two monumental things that shape the journey and pave the way to success. Rodney Gustafson, artistic director of State Street …
Pittsburgh theater companies often use artwork as a tool in their storytelling arsenal. Here are some examples on display.
Springtime, it appears, is when Sacramento theater producers turn their thoughts to dysfunctional families. The city's three leading theater companies in recent weeks all have opened dramas …
AI researcher Robbie Barrat decided to see what would happen when he fed a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) thousands of nude portraits from a dataset and then trained it to create…
A marvellously disquieting show illustrating how German and Austrian artists negotiated the extremes of the 1930s
"The cave, which houses wall paintings dating back around 30,000 years, was discovered in 1994 by Jean-Marie Chauvet, Eliette Brunel-Deschamps and Christian Hillaire. ... [The three] argued …
It's surprising how people tend to be unaware of the enormous number of quick changes that lie behind big West End shows
A common complaint in live performing arts is that no one has an attention span anymore. The sense is that cell phones, videos, bright flashing lights, etc have ruined our brains. But accord…
By Douglas Mayo
The Original Theatre Company and York Theatre Royal will present the first ever revival of Alan Bennett’s The Habit Of Art on tour.
This post Alan Bennett’s The H…
A lost opportunity for the developers, arquitectonica, and artist Alexandre da Cunha.
The country's young artists are drawing admirers
