Tag: Culture
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Tate Modern at 15: still delivering the shock of the new
The Bankside museum has transformed modern art from an elite cult into mass entertainment, but is it time to get down to some proper studying?
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Splurging £102.6m on Picasso’s Women of Algiers is simply insane
The record-breaking price paid for a late, ungreat work shows the foolishness of collectors infected by a dumb new buzz around the artist
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Turner prize 2015: an end to the same-old same-old. Bring it on!
The jury of this year’s prize are doing what they should do – giving intriguing new art a platform. They’ve certainly piqued this critic’s curiosity
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From the car park to the catwalk: how fashion embraced street art
A new line of sunglasses designed by ‘graffiti artist’ Mr Brainwash are just the latest example of fashion’s longstanding love of people who write on walls
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Frida Kahlo: long may her fashion influence reign
More than 60 years after her death, a new exhibition shows why Frida Kahlo’s distinctive look and exuberant choice of clothes are still so powerful
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56th Venice Biennale review – more of a glum trudge than an exhilarating adventure
There’s an awful lot of fretting about the state of the world in the Biennale’s 88 national pavilions, but little power, wit or bravado