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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
Continue Reading...God, sex or evolution – why did humans start making art?
A new Australian exhibition suggests art was first made to attract mates, signal dangers or mimic nature. But this reduces a mysterious impulse to a biological drive
Continue Reading...Feminism doesn’t need more female statues – it needs political action
Bulgarian artist Erka has rightly protested against Sofia’s total lack of statues of women by erecting her own pop-up versions. But permanent statues don’t advance feminism – they trap people in the past
Continue Reading...Damien Hirst gives first glimpse of new Venice art.
With mysterious underwater objects hinting at monsters and ancient civilisations – including a $4m Medusa – Damien Hirst could be about to reverse years of creative decline
Continue Reading...Welcome to the world’s smallest art fair – on a disappearing speck of sand
The art at the Biennale de la Biche off Guadeloupe is set to disappear into the sea, thereby mirroring the futility and emptiness of elite events like Venice Biennale
Continue Reading...Martin Creed’s bleak anti-carol should be Christmas No 1
With his song It’s You, Turner-winning artist Martin Creed has made the perfect antidote to the commercialised positivity of Christmas
Continue Reading...Marisol: the forgotten star of pop art
Once as famous and influential as Andy Warhol, the artist, who has died aged 85, fell into obscurity – but her enigmatic work is sure to be rediscovered and endure
Continue Reading...Warhol demonised Nixon. Heartfield took on Hitler. Where is Trump’s artistic mauling?
The best political art is always viciously negative. And the monsterly qualities of Donald Trump are crying out for some hard-hitting mockery. So where are the likes of Chuck Close and Jeff Koons?
Continue Reading...Jeff Koons: master of parody or great American con man?
The Koons mystery deepens as another charge of plagiarism has been lobbed at the artist. But the latest claims are truly shocking
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