We need to remove the mask of history from female artists

Madrid’s Prado gallery has finally, after 200 years, put on its first show devoted to a female painter, Clara Peeters. We need far more like it, to understand the greatness of women working under heavy patriarchies

Pop music was a great leveller. Now it’s a bespoke plaything for the rich

Buying albums and watching bands were egalitarian pursuits. Now both reflect society’s wealth divide

Bob Dylan: a Hockney-like painter of America’s strange essence

Dylan’s art marks him out as a staunch traditionalist – but his powers of observation make his canvases evocative celebrations of life itself

David Bowie’s sombre art collection needs more space oddities

Aside from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Marcel Duchamp, there’s little provocation or pop art brashness in David Bowie’s art collection – instead he’s weirdly fascinated by 20th-century British painting

Facebook’s virtual reality just attempts what artists have been doing forever

Virtual reality is radically redefining digital entertainment. Time travel, space travel, or hanging out with friends are all possible in VR, but also via books and arts.

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