Tag: Culture
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Sotheby’s protest highlights cultural grey area of depicting Indigenous dead
The protest over the sale of three photographs of Indigenous ancestors won’t be the last – as Truganini’s story makes clear
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Shard leads Olympic Aquatics Centre in race for the Stirling prize
Other contenders for architecture award include Birmingham library, Everyman theatre in Liverpool and LSE student centre• Which building would you vote for? Join our poll
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Oxford’s Ashmolean exhibition reveals real curse of Tutankhamun
‘Discovering Tutankhamun’ returns visitors to the Tut mania that followed 1923 excavation of the boy king’s tomb
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Subversive design, radical Germans, and cultured holidays – the week in art
The V&A celebrates design as a form of protest, Isa Genzken brings her radical vision to Edinburgh, and we showcase the best exhibitions to catch on your summer travels – all in your weekly art newsletter
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Halfway through 512 hours of Marina Abramović: no one to hear you scream
Our critic revisits Abramović’s residency at the Serpentine and finds its stifling silence and exam-style tasks evoke more production-line misery than mindfulness• Marina Abramović review – ‘Who knows what might happen?’• Marina Abramović: ‘I was ready to die’
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Secret oasis: the artist who’s hidden a swimming pool in the desert
Alfredo Barsuglia has put a swimming pool deep in the Mojave desert, which you need a treasure map to find. It’s a perfect parody of our world of instant gratification