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28ArtNew book sees ‘outsider artists’ as part of a creative spectrum rather than a world apart
The book Outside In: Exploring the margins of art presents works by a group of mostly contemporary “outsider” artists and argues a...
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35Museums & heritagethe Hong Kong artists fighting for a brighter future
Some call it the great exodus: the family company owners, the bankers and the expatriate businesspeople departing Hong Kong in droves during...
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33ExhibitionsCaspar David Friedrich at the Hamburger Kunsthalle ★★★★★
There are paintings by Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)—the ne plus ultra of German Romantic artists—that are so celebrated and widely reproduced we...
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36BooksLos Angeles museum repatriates Asante artefacts to Ghana
Seven handcrafted Asante objects have just travelled halfway around the globe to be returned, 150 years later, to the family of their...
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24PodcastsHow Mexico City’s art scene and its biggest fair, Zona Maco, have grown over 20 years
This year Mexico City’s Zona Maco art fair, the biggest in Latin America, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. It launched as a...
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36ColumnsPhillips auction gives James Rosenquist estate the best of both worlds
The estate of the American Pop artist James Rosenquist (1933-2017) will offer around 50 of his prints, made across 50 years, for...
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24ArtPainting made by The Beatles in a Tokyo hotel sells for $1.7m at auction
A painting by the Beatles sold for $1.7m at Christie’s in New York on 1 February (with fees), easily beating its estimate...
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31Museums & heritageEdinburgh exhibition shows the many sides of Eduardo Paolozzi
Few artists are as prominent in the UK’s cultural subconscious as Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005). He is on the walls of Tottenham Court...
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29Exhibitions‘The art fair is a market, not a museum’
My Frieze week began in a queue. Specifically, I was queuing to get into Yinka Shonibare’s most recent exhibition: Free the Wind,...
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35BooksBritish Museum interim director backs Parthenon Marbles loan plan with Greece
Momentum is gathering for a loan arrangement between the UK and Greece over the Parthenon Marbles after the British Museum’s interim director,...
