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UNCOVERED: Marcel duchamp - Caught on Camera

‘Fountain’ might make you laugh or scowl but asks important questions – a Philly art historian explains why Marcel Duchamp’s iconic 1917 sculpture still provokes

Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain” is not for everyone – and it does not need to be.

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‘Adaptive reuse’: how contemporary artists reuse and recycle objects to be born again

The buildings we call home, the things we use every day, and the technologies we depend on would quickly become useless without constant repair and maintenance.

The Conversation

A Yoko Ono biography that avoids John Lennon... Really?

MCCRUM ON BOOKS: Yoko Ono’s art career has seen her wrap orchestras up in gauze and make paintings with numbered instructions – all before she stumbled into Beatlemania. A new book sidelines her partnership with John Lennon, but Robert McCrum argues that her role as the musician’s muse unleashed one…

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Andean artist Antonio Paucar wins Artes Mundi prize in Wales

Artist and beekeeper who highlights eco crisis plans to spend £40,000 award on building cultural centre in Peru

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"I became borderline obsessive": Why I couldn't stop photographing covered motorbikes

Benedict Brain kindles a passion for covered motorbikes as an unlikely form of street art

Digital Camera World

The best art and photography of 2025 – from eye-boggling Bridget Riley to the Face’s riotous fashion

Jenny Saville’s bruising paintings, Andy Goldsworthy’s immersive stones, Lee Miller’s surrealist shots and Diane Arbus’s unforgiving nudes – our critics highlight a spectacular year

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Tala Madani: Daughter BWASM review – filthy pot shots from a bad mum and her AI offspring

The Iranian-born US artist cleverly uses AI-generated robot children to show she has had enough of women being treated like mechanical automatons for childbirth and care

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Curious Kids: who invented art?

Who invented art? – Grace, aged nine, Belfast, UK

The Conversation

21 Timeless Paintings And The Fascinating Stories That Made Them Legendary

This collection of 21 famous paintings and the stories behind them brings you closer to the artists and the moments that shaped their craft.

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Overlooked female modernist artist Marthe Donas dazzles in Belgium

Antwerp exhibition testifies to growing recognition of woman who took gender-neutral name Tour to get on

The Guardian - UK

50 Times Great Works Of Art Were The Perfect Canvas For The Funniest Memes (New Pics)

When we think of memes, we rarely associate them with something sophisticated or intellectual. Yet such a genre exists: classical art memes. Well, they may not be particularly academic and require you to have a degree in Fine Arts. They’re more of a bridge between the snobbish art world and…

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Joan Didion and Eve Babitz: The uneasy bond between two very different literary ‘it girls’

THE READING LIST: A new book explores the friendship and rivalry between two very different chroniclers of Sixties and Seventies Los Angeles – and shines a light upon why a new generation of readers are still obsessed with Didion and Babitz decades later, writes Katie Rosseinsky

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Daniel Spoerri obituary

Creator of ‘eat art’, which explored ideas of taste in a series of works that did not just reproduce food, but consisted of it

The Guardian - UK

Michael Craig-Martin review – sorry, but these lamps and filing cabinets just aren’t that interesting

His early conceptual work inspired the likes of Damien Hirst, but the RA has inexplicably focused on his cool and clinical representations of the ordinary stuff of modern life

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The Cumbrian barn-stormer: is Kurt Schwitters’ last masterpiece finally about to be restored?

The dada artist fled the Nazis and settled in a Lake District barn, which he turned into an astonishing work of art. We meet the replica-making craftsman hoping to make it whole again – and create a colony of artists in its luscious lakeland surroundings

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What’s the big deal with breasts, ask artists at the Venice Biennale

‘Breasts’ is set to open at ACP Palazzo Franchetti for the duration of the Venice Art Biennale 2024

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Damien Hirst’s shark changed my life. Now he has taken a chainsaw to his glorious past

In creating sculptures backdated to the days when his art electrified the world, the former YBA has cast doubt on his youthful legacy and destroyed our belief in his creative future

The Guardian - UK

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind review – huge, moving and full of surprises

Inviting you to draw on the walls, hammer in nails and climb into cloth bags like the ones she shared with John Lennon, this retrospective of the artist’s hopeful work over seven decades is as inclusive as it is instructive

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Threatening to dissolve masterpieces in acid is a pathetically banal stunt for our shallow times

Russian artist Andrei Molodkin will destroy works by Picasso, Rembrandt and Warhol if Julian Assange dies in prison. It’s an unoriginal idea born of art-historical ignorance

The Guardian - UK

A killer’s muse, a goddess, or actually a man? … 10 things you need to know about the Mona Lisa

The protesters who threw pumpkin soup at the world’s most famous painting have made headlines around the world. But what is it that makes Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece so alluring?

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‘Art Exposed’: Julian Spalding on everything that’s wrong with the art world

In ‘Art Exposed’, Julian Spalding draws on his 40 years in the art world – as a museum director, curator, and critic – for his series of essays

The Guardian - UK

Myriam Bat-Yosef obituary

Surrealist artist determined to express female self-exploration and political liberty in her work

The Guardian - UK

Pornography or art? Outrage master Georg Baselitz’s sex prints are sublimely carnal

These huge upside-down linocuts showing clothed couples having sex, with a white circle at the pivotal point, are ‘like Picasso on schnapps’

The Guardian - UK

Letters: on both sides of the Israel-Hamas war, the victims are innocent

Like many, I am historically affected by the atrocities we are witnessing; not as a Jew but as a human being

The Guardian - UK

‘This was his revenge on art’: is Marcel Duchamp’s greatest work a fake?

‘Fountain’, by the father of conceptualism, is seen as a pinnacle of 20th-century art – but new evidence casts doubt on its authorship

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