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Looking at people looking at art: inside the mind of a gallery attendant

Visitor experience workers at London’s Tate Modern, Serpentine, Barbican and V&A share what it’s like to watch people looking at art during a time of changing attention spans and rising vandalism

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Five of the biggest summer exhibitions around the UK – what you should see this week

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Marc Camille Chaimowicz obituary

Artist whose installations combined the melancholic and camp, the romantic and cerebral

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Grace Jones shakes her bones! Great moments in after-dark photography

The perfect post-sundown shot has long proved elusive. But a new book called Night Fever is celebrating the trailblazers who caught not just what the small hours look like – but how they feel

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Five controversial historical royal portraits – from drunken kings to sexy mermaids

It’s been a strange year for representations of British royalty. In March, major photo agencies issued a rare “kill notice” on a photo of Catherine, Princess of Wales after evidence emerged that it had been tampered with. In May, Jonathan Yeo’s official portrait of King Charles sparked online discussion with…

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Battle for the museum review: Museums get a lot wrong, but then so does this book

In theory, I should like this book. It’s about the corruption of what Rachel Spence calls Planet Art, that, is museums and galleries, and there’s a lot of it about. It extends from the grossly inflated prices given to rubbish artefacts at auction, to the use of cultural philanthropy to…

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Overseas France takes centre stage at all-night festival of art and culture

Every year, Paris and its suburbs pull an all-nighter of culture on Nuit Blanche – literally “white night” – when the city hosts a cocktail of art, performance and discovery. This year’s edition, taking place on Saturday, celebrates the melting pot of cultures in French overseas territories from the Caribbean…

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‘To represent blackness as beautiful was radical’: the astonishing art – and lives – of the Holder brothers

From ballet-dancing in New York to playing a Bond villain, Trinidad-born brothers Boscoe and Geoffrey Holder led extraordinary lives. But it’s as trailblazing painters of black portraits and nudes that they will be remembered

The Guardian - UK

Degas at the circus, Emin’s rebirth and rococo inspo – the week in art

Richard Wright hits Glasgow, London Gallery Weekend brings the glamour and fashion photography claims its place as art

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The workshop producing Timurid tiles in Herat

Tile making has flourished in Herat for over eight centuries, reaching its peak during the Timurid period

The Independent UK

Experience: I went on 100 dates in a day

The youngest was 21 and the oldest 80. The effort people made blew me away

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Gina Rinehart gifted painting of herself to National Portrait Gallery, Senate estimates told

Visitors have been flocking to the National Gallery of Australia amid the controversy over Vincent Namatjira’s painting of Rinehart, director tells hearing

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Pioneering designer Gae Aulenti’s illustrious career is celebrated in a new Milan retrospective

Gae Aulenti, the Italian designer, architect and original thinker, is celebrated with a dedicated retrospective at Milan’s Triennale Design Museum

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A Ghana toddler sets a world record as the youngest male artist. His mom says he just loves colors

A toddler in the West African country of Ghana has set the record as the world’s youngest male artist

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Hidden cocoons and piñata-like hearts: Nnena Kalu's sculptures at Arcadia Missa

Nnena Kalu showcases her new work in London creating a sculptural world of rhythmic mixed media and bold colours

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Gilbert & George: ‘When people see us, that becomes part of the idea of two human beings as one artwork’

As their ‘London Pictures’ exhibition marks The Gilbert & George Centre’s first anniversary, the artists talk to Wallpaper* of their early practice, daily routine, and what next

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Archibald Prize 2024: this year’s finalists range from downright fun to politically ferocious

Wayne Tunnicliffe, head of Australian art at the Art Gallery of NSW, has a sense of humour. The main entrance to this year’s Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prize exhibition features a giant black and white photograph of a student demonstration from 1953. At the time the gallery trustees, who are…

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Kusuma Barnett obituary

Other lives: Head of volunteering at the British Museum who helped to bring new life to its public involvement programmes

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Everything to see at London Gallery Weekend 2024

London Gallery Weekend 2024 highlights, from Nan Goldin to John Akomfrah, as 130-plus galleries and 70 live events take over the capital (31 May – 2 June)

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Detectorist unearths bronze age hoard after getting lost on treasure hunt

John Belgrove, 60, uncovered rare sword, axe head and bangle in Dorset after becoming separated from group

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Another View: Landscapes by Women Artists – a rare chance to see our rapidly changing world from a purely female perspective

As art and cultural historian Simon Schama has explained, the term “landscape” originated from Dutch and German etymology – literally speaking of shaping the land as a cultural activity. It is gratifying to see this term being rehabilitated after decades of substitution for the term “environment”.

The Independent UK

Oscar-nominated photographer Nan Goldin says war in Gaza is ‘so shameful’ as a Jewish person

Legendary photographer shared concerns Gaza would become a ‘golf course’

Evening Standard

London Gallery Weekend: what to see and what to do, from Nan Goldin to Nil Yater

Now in its fourth year, the biggest gallery weekend in the world is staging all manner of events, performances, openings, and talks. Here’s our pick of the bunch

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The Roth Bar at Hauser & Wirth Somerset serves up a cocktail of salvaged materials

Art and entertaining meet in Oddur Roth’s bar sculpture at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, a site-specific installation and social hub

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Robert Wilson creates a kaleidoscopic stage for 140 chairs in Leipzig

‘A Chair and You’ is on display at the Grassi Museum of Applied Arts in Leipzig, celebrating its 150th anniversary with the Robert Wilson-staged exhibition, until 6 October 2024

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