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EXPLAINED: Hieronymus bosch | Rare Historical Photos

This newly announced FPS will let you blast through the worlds of Medieval Europe's weirdest artist, and I really hope it includes the 500-year-old butt song from hell

Hieronymus invites you to step into artworks like The Garden of Earthly Delights.

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David Kemp obituary

Artist who built up an imaginative and playful picture of the world using the detritus of defunct industrial plants

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‘Shocking? It’s only what you see in ancient temples’: painter T Venkanna on his joyous carnivals of copulation

Penises, vaginas and breasts abound in the Indian painter’s work. As the son of a Hindu priest, he says his orgasmic scenes give us a way to consider religion

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“Makes Hieronymus Bosch’s visions of Hell look like a nursery school”: Thrash veterans Kreator bring demons, wicker men and the most fire this side of Parkway Drive to stunning London show

Supported by Nails, Exodus and Carcass, the German luminaries reach a new level of pageantry

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Andy Warhol would have hated safe spaces. So why keep dragging dead artists into today’s culture wars?

Critics and curators are reframing great artists, from Gentileschi to Soutine, to fit with modern ethical narratives. But this ignores the glorious ambivalence of their creations

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I tried using NotebookLM’s new AI Video Overviews and ended up with some usefully informative, but rather dull PowerPoint presentations

NotebookLM's Video Overviews are useful but somewhat dull.

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I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà review – makes most fiction feel timid

This Catalonian tale of a botched pact with the devil has the demonic excess of a Hieronymus Bosch painting

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To A-Listers, Private Museum Photoshoots Are Priceless Works of Art

Celebrities are more interested in 'fit pics than an audio tour.

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Those Passions: on art and politics by TJ Clark review – show me the Monet

The veteran art critic sets out to unsettle received ideas in this collection of 22 dazzling essays

The Guardian - UK

Those Passions by TJ Clark review – a timely study of the connection between art and politics

The British art historian’s essays demonstrate a wide erudition but suffer from his relentless scrutinising

The Guardian - UK

‘As soon as I feel like somebody has worked me out, I want to switch it up’: set designer Shona Heath on staying authentic in a digital age

Shona Heath reflects on her 2024 Oscar win, being named a Royal Designer for Industry and the importance of dreaming

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Painting by surrealist painter Leonora Carrington fetches $28m at auction

Late British painter’s Les Distractions de Dagobert, ‘the apotheosis of Carrington’s oeuvre’, was inspired by Hieronymus Bosch

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You Are Going to Die review – nothing is off-limits in this naked meditation on mortality

Adam Scott-Rowley struts, writhes and jiggles his way from ancient Celt to Hieronymus Bosch wretch in this potent cross between physical theatre and performance art

The Guardian - UK

Earthly Delights by Jonathan Jones review – Renaissance mania

The Guardian’s art critic casts a meticulous and joyful eye over western art’s big bang

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Drink, lechery and fellatio by snake: was the Renaissance a sexually subversive love-in?

From Bosch’s crazed party to the homoerotic images Michelangelo smuggled into the Vatican, this was an age of taboo-busting. And, as our writer argues in a new book, it sparked its own culture wars

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Baldur’s Gate 3 already has a tabletop prequel: a journey to hell with serious Diablo 4 energy

Baldur’s Gate 3 not only has a prequel, but it’s one of the best Dungeons & Dragons adventures. Descent into Avernus will take you to hell and back - if you can find the right DM.

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Understanding the Renaissance with the Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones

Journey through the remarkable creativity and convulsive change of the Renaissance via Bosch and da Vinci, with the Guardian’s art critic Jonathan JonesOnline workshopDate: Tuesday 17 October 2023Time: 6pm-8pm (BST)Catch up recording available

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Eye-tracking glasses show viewers of Bosch triptych are drawn to hell

Heat map shows visitors to Prado museum in Madrid spent most time looking at right-hand panel of artist’s The Garden of Earthy Delights

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Il trovatore; The Planets; Dennis & Gnasher: Unleashed at the Orchestra review – from Bosch to Bash Street

Spellbinding Jamie Barton and company excel in Adele Thomas’s clear-sighted take on volatile Verdi; to the final frontier via Peckham; and kazoos at the ready for a Beano Concerto

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A walk-in wedding cake, Kiefer’s impossible task and a Bloomsbury master – the week in art

Visionary Joana Vasconcelos has cooked a giant gateau, Anselm Kiefer is taking on Finnegans Wake and Stephen Tomlin has finally found the spotlight

The Guardian - UK

People power: music, film, books and more about the madness and wisdom of crowds

From Dickens’s depiction of the Gordon riots to Alessia Cara drifting around a party, our critics select culture about the seething masses

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The Frameless digital art exhibition puts you inside iconic paintings – I'm inspired

Frameless brings art to life.

The Guardian - UK

Da Vinci’s dark side, our need for nature and a big pinch of salt – the week in art

Renaissance grotesquerie with the Ugly Duchess, our fragile relationship with nature, and prize-winning Finnish video art about sea salt

The Conversation

Vivienne Westwood: how the brand will maintain the spirit of transgression and rebellion after her death

The death of the English fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood at the age of 81 on December 29 2022, has not only moved the fashion industry, but the world. Through her designs and her activism, Westwood had a profound impact on fashion and culture.

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Socials club: the best Insta and Twitter accounts capturing UK nightlife

Great nights out are gone too soon, often lost in a hungover haze. Thankfully, social media accounts are capturing the scenes that deserve to be remembered

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