Post Views: 12 Design news: plates that talk to your table mats, Milan Salone and inspiring kids to build Poster for Salone del Mobile 2023, illustrated by Gio Pastori and designed by Leftloft. Photograph: Salone de Mobile The annual furniture fair and design shows of Milan, Cabana magazine goes high street and …
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Read More »Scientists gain insights into Old Master artists’ use of egg in oil paintings
Post Views: 7 Detail from Sandro Botticelli’s Lamentation over the Dead Christ, one of the works found to feature the use of egg within oil paint. Photograph: Prisma Archivo/Alamy Scientists gain insights into Old Master artists’ use of egg in oil paintings Researchers believe egg was used by likes of …
Read More »‘Before cancer I was really unhappy’: Tracey Emin on the joy of founding her own art school
Post Views: 7 ‘Before cancer I was really unhappy’: Tracey Emin on the joy of founding her own art school ‘Being an artist is quite lonely’ … Tracey Emin in her Margate studio. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian When she thought she was dying, Emin vowed to create a lasting legacy. Now …
Read More »Michel Houellebecq sex film to be released despite attempt to stop it
Post Views: 7 Michel Houellebecq in 2019. According to the court’s verdict, the idea for the experimental porn film had first been proposed to a Dutch art collective by his wife at a Paris dinner in 2022. Photograph: Carlos R Alvarez/WireImage Michel Houellebecq sex film to be released despite attempt to …
Read More »Stanley Jones obituary
Post Views: 6 Stanley Jones at the Curwen Studio in the grounds of Chilford Hall, Cambridgeshire, in 2013. Photograph: Petra Stenvall Stanley Jones obituary Outstanding lithographer and founder of the Curwen Studio who worked with leading artists from Henry Moore to Paula Rego In 1956 Stanley Jones, who has died …
Read More »Dominique White wins Max Mara art prize for women
Post Views: 8 Dominique White wins Max Mara art prize for women Ghostly creations … Dominique White, Flag of Nowhere, 2017. Photograph: Courtesy the artist The sculptor and installation artist, whose ocean-themed work explores new worlds for ‘blackness’, will have shows in Italy and London in 2024 Dominique White, a sculptor …
Read More »Paul O’Grady – a life in pictures
Post Views: 8 Paul O’Grady – a life in pictures Paul O’Grady as Popeye on The Paul O’Grady Show, one of many TV series he hosted across his career. Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features The TV host and comedian was known as the host of Blind Date and Blankety Blank, and …
Read More »Return to Russia: magic and mythology in a small village – in pictures
Post Views: 3 The water’s fine … Katya Vysotskaya, 2014. Photograph: Nadia Sablin Return to Russia: magic and mythology in a small village – in pictures Years after leaving her homeland, Nadia Sablin made an anxious return. She found that the village she had grown up in had changed beyond …
Read More »‘I tend to avoid moral statements’: the Mexican artist looking at oil, wealth and history
Post Views: 11 ‘I tend to avoid moral statements’: the Mexican artist looking at oil, wealth and history Minerva Cuevas, installation view of In Gods We Trust, Kurimanzutto, New York, 2023. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City / New York. Photo: Genevieve Hanson At her New York exhibition, …
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