Climate Photos of the Global Climate Strike protests around the worldQuartz - Johnny SimonYoung people and activists have been taking to the streets in cities around the world today to protest against inaction in the face of global climate change. Today’s climate strike is a continuation of
Art Norway's new art gallery is full of twists, turns and surprisesLonely Planet - Sasha BradyNorway's newest art gallery looks like a twisted deck of cards, fanned out across the winding Randselva river. Designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingles Group, the gallery is just as trippy on the inside, as it appears
Photography The Surprising Story Behind Ansel Adams’ Most Famous PhotographMy Modern Met - Kelly Richman-AbdouIf you’re familiar with the work of legendary photographer Ansel Adams, chances are you’ve encountered Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico. Arguably Adams’ most iconic image, this black-and-white photograph
Artists The best lies artists have ever toldDAZED - Daisy SchofieldIn 1944, the artist Joseph Beuys was involved in a plane crash. He was flying in a German bomber over the Russian front when the accident occurred, killing the pilot, and leaving Beuys severely injured.
Long-form Journalism The Unsinkable Modernistnybooks.com - Martin Filler an exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 8–July 28, 2019 Whatever else one might think of Walter Gropius—the …
Five of Lucian Freud's most important portraits, from Big Sue to Leigh Bowery | London Evening Standardstandard.co.uk - Zoe Paskett A titan of modern British art, Lucian Freud created some of the most instantly recognisable artistic portrayals of humanity that exist today. Author …
Tate Britain A blockbuster show at Tate Britain gives William Blake his dueThe Economist The doors of perceptionA blockbuster show at Tate Britain gives William Blake his due It illuminates the life and career of a challenging artist IN THE …
The best architecture of the 21st centuryThe Guardian - The Guardian viewThere have been few moments of architectural theatre as strange and wonderful as the Cineroleum, a temporary cinema erected in a disused petrol station on Clerkenwell Road one summer. The moment of brilliance
Art Antony Gormley review – metal master puts a bomb in the RAThe Guardian - Skye SherwinAntony Gormley’s retrospective at the Royal Academy ends in a moment of blissful release. After tottering through low, pitch-black metal tunnels and chambers, you emerge into a gallery filled with cool
Art William Blake review – a rousing call to armsThe Guardian - Laura CummingThis stupendous show opens with a starburst: the naked figure of Albion rising in glory, rainbows exploding around his outstretched arms. It is a curtain-raiser, a full frontal performance: the beautiful
Art Antony Gormley: ‘In a digital age, sculpture is the antithesis to distraction’The Guardian - Kate KellawayBorn in London, Antony Gormley is the best-known British sculptor working today. All over the world, life-size sculpted representations of his tall figure appear. A hundred Gormleys look out permanently
William Blake William Blake: Will Gompertz reviews 'imperfect' Tate Britain blockbuster ★★★☆☆BBC News - Will GompertzThe strangest thing happened to me at Tate Britain's William Blake exhibition; something I'd not encountered before, nor even considered possible. Nothing dramatic, like falling into a trippy hallucinogenic
News (U.S.) A small Indiana town boosts its big architectural legacyThe Economist YEARS BEFORE I.M.Pei designed the Louvre Pyramid in Paris or the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, he planned a squat yet elegant library in a …
Military Charlie Cole, photographer behind iconic Tiananmen Square photo, diesBusiness Insider - Rosie Perper, INSIDERPhotographer Charlie Cole, who won the World Press Photo of the Year in 1999 for his iconic capture of the Chinese "tank man" who confronted military vehicles in Tiananmen Square in 1989, has died at age
Dover Banksy responds after Brexit artwork is painted over in DoverNME - Damian Jones Banksy has reacted to the Brexit mural he created in Dover being painted over. Read more: The Trip-Hop X-Files: All The Evidence That Says Massive …
Hubble The Hubble Space Telescope Just Gave Us A Jaw-Dropping New Video Of Saturn’s RingsForbes - Jamie CarterIt’s just water and ice. And maybe a few rocks. Despite their unremarkable make-up, Saturn’s rings are an iconic sight and have been since the late 1970s when first Pioneer 11, then Voyagers 1 and 2, the
Robert Frank How Robert Frank’s Photographs Helped Define AmericaThe New Yorker - Jelani CobbA nation that is premised on an idea—not on an alleged shared bloodline or eons of history on common acreage—is prone to periodically question exactly who and what it is. The matter that binds Americans,
Robert Frank In Pictures: Photographer Robert Frank’s ‘Sad Poem’ of Americafrieze.com In a career spanning seven decades, Swiss photographer Robert Frank (1924 – 2019) tirelessly documented the lives of ordinary Americans. His pictures …
William Blake Bobby Gillespie, Genesis P-Orridge and Jack Barnett on William Blakeanothermanmag.com - Another Man “I need to learn more about William Blake. I know he was a visionary Romantic poet, I am familiar with some of his poems; Auguries of Innocence being …
Robert Frank ROBERT FRANK’S UNSENTIMENTAL JOURNEY | Vanity Fair | April 2008Vanity Fair - CHARLIE LEDUFFPublished in 1958, Robert Frank's photographic manifesto, The Americans, torched the national myth, bringing him such comrades as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and—for a controversial documentary—the Stones.
Arts and Crafts movement John Ruskin and the National Gallery | Paintings | National Gallery, Londonnationalgallery.org.uk - The National Gallery, London Turner was Ruskin’s artistic hero. His own private art collection was dominated by Turner’s works, and his first volume of 'Modern Painters' was …
Wildlife photographer of the year – highly commended imagesThe Guardian - The Guardian viewThe Natural History Museum has released a selection of highly commended photographs from a range of categories. The winners will be announced on 15 October and the exhibition opens on 18 October The exhibition
Rome From the Ruins of Rome to the Invention of Perspectivelithub.com - By Amir Alexander For the most part, humanism was a literary and philosophical movement focused on books and texts. Itinerant scholars such as Poggio Bracciolini …
World Trade Center Photos show how Manhattan's Financial District has changed since 2001Business Insider - Ellen IoanesThe terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, took the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans and transformed the US in countless ways. It sparked the global war on terror ( which the US is now fighting in 76
Robert Frank, revolutionary American photographer, dies aged 94The Guardian - Lanre BakareRobert Frank, the American artist whose photographs captured the lives of everyday people and influenced a generation with his raw and evocative style, has died aged 94. The Swiss-born photographer’s book
Art William Blake review – blazing heresies from the artist who blows Constable and Turner awayThe Guardian - Jonathan JonesThe poster for Tate Britain’s exhibition of William Blake uses the three Rs to sell this icon of the Napoleonic age to the turbulent Britons of 2019: “Rebel, Radical, Revolutionary.” It may seem an over-eager
Vietnam 15 Inspiring Finalists For ‘Best Photo Of The Year’ Agora AwardsForbes - Cecilia RodriguezFor the past nine months, photographers from around the world have submitted their pictures to compete for the title of “Best Photo of the Year” and the $25,000 prize. Now the 50 finalists from more than
'I try to trigger all the senses': the artist behind the banners at AnfieldThe Guardian - Davey BrettPeter Carney is an artist, banners are his means of expression and the Kop is his canvas Peter Carney makes the banners on the Kop at Anfield. These aren’t a St George’s cross with a town’s name in the
Art Japanese Artists Create Incredible Ocean Wave Installation Inside RoomMy Modern Met - Emma TaggartAs members of the Japanese artist collective 目 (pronounced Mé, meaning “eye”), Haruka Kojin, Kenji Minamigawa, and Hirofumi Masui are the creatives behind a stunning ocean wave installation at the Mori
