What’s Wrong With Art: Inappropriate selfies
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Practice in Action: A Review of Theaster Gates at Richard Gray Gallery
What results from urban planning, social practice, and a hunger for change? Theaster Gates at Richard Gray may be it. The latest exhibition from the Chicago based artist emphasised the intersection of fine art and social progression.
A new way of seeing Italian art – Ugo Mulas at Robilant + Voena
Robilant + Voena present the photographs of Ugo Mulas in an exhibition that reveals the power of Italian post-war art through a new lens. Curated by Francesca Pola in collaboration with the Archivio Ugo Mulas, the exhibition sheds light on the innovative approach undertaken by Mulas in photography.
Videogames are a remarkable artform that can help save UK culture
Videogames speak culture with ever increasing fluency, but cultural policy doesn’t speak much videogame (yet)
Where is the world’s most dangerous country for young people?
The widening gap in youth mortality between the developed and developing world is down to traffic accidents, violence and disease, a new analysis shows
World of leather: how Tom of Finland created a legendary gay aesthetic
His subversive drawings ridiculed authority figures and inspired the look of Freddie Mercury and the Village People. A new film tells the story of Touko Laaksonen’s rise to become Europe’s kinkiest art export
Rise of the racist robots – how AI is learning all our worst impulses
There is a saying in computer science: garbage in, garbage out. When we feed machines data that reflects our prejudices, they mimic them – from antisemitic chatbots to racially biased software. Does a horrifying future await people forced to live at the mercy of algorithms?
The rise in art protests: how the gallery became a new battleground
An exhibit by controversial artist Dana Schultz, accused of profiting from black pain, has led to anger, the latest in an increasingly long line of art world protests
How art is being used to explore America’s shameful legacy of lynching
A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum examines the history of racial persecution in the US while steering clear of explicit violence
Fashion must fight the scourge of dumped clothing clogging landfills
Every year millions of garments are discarded as consumers ditch fast-fashion styles for a new wardrobe. At last the industry is acting – but more has to be done
What will the car of 2040 be like?
Following the announcement petrol and diesel engine cars will be banned from sale in 2040, the car of the future is up for grabs
Building Prey: how artists shape video game worlds
Via concept art and sketches, we look at how developer Arkane envisaged one of the most visually spectacular games of the year
The apocalypse, clowns and cows: an art critic on the autumn fashion campaigns
Gucci pays homage to sci-fi cinema, Kenzo is referencing the faded glamour of La Dolce Vita and Calvin Klein thinks we’re in the middle of the apocalypse. This autumn’s fashion campaign ads are a reflection of a bleak and astounded age
‘We found it rolled up in a tube’: Alice Cooper discovers Warhol classic after 40 years
The rock star Alice Cooper has found an Andy Warhol masterpiece that could be worth millions “rolled up in a tube” in a storage locker.
REVIEW: Soul of a Nation – the extraordinary art of the black power era
Tate Modern, London
Civil rights meet aesthetics in this riveting survey of 20 crucial years of black American art and struggle
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
What part did black artists play in America’s civil rights struggle? They reinvented Superman and took a seven-mile artwork through Harlem. As the Tate tackles this tumultuous era with Soul of a Nation, we meet the show’s star attractions
Car, shed … elevator? The Los Angeles art spaces proving smaller is better
A range of alternative galleries have sprung up in the city, creating micro-museums that offer unique experiences not found in ‘white-walled galleries’
How galleries became the best places to rave
Bad sound and indifferent crowds have traditionally made galleries dangerous places for live music, but a new breed of curators are changing the tune
Diamond Reynolds: the woman who streamed a police shooting becomes a Renaissance Madonna
She put the shooting of her boyfriend on Facebook live. Now artist Luke Willis Thompson has turned Diamond Reynolds into a different kind of screen star
Three men charged over Damien Hirst counterfeits.
Fake ‘limited-edition’ Hirst prints were sold online to dozens of buyers by a New York group that included a man previously imprisoned for a similar scheme
Hermann Nitsch: I show everything that is … I don’t know what is bad or good
Austrian artist, whose bloody installation for Dark Mofo has sparked protests and controversy, says he has never been interested in provocation
Andy Warhol’s inaugural ‘selfie’ expected to fetch £7m at auction
Print from 1963 based on photo-booth image of artist obsessed with cult of celebrity to be sold at auction for first time
How down-at-heel Lisbon became the new capital of cool
Four years ago, Portugal’s capital felt like a ‘city on its knees’. Now it is being touted as hip, cheap and innovative. But is the socialist government failing Lisbon’s poor in its rush to revitalise?
Judy Chicago on the Beatles: ‘They represent things we have lost – hope and freedom’
For Sgt Pepper’s 50th anniversary, the great psychedelic visionary of feminist art has created a giant mop-top mural inspired by Fixing a Hole – a song that sums up what she has spent her entire career doing