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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Stephen Smith |Louisa Buck
It is a lucky artist whose doings are chronicled by his very own Vasari, the sixteenth century Italian who acted as a biographer to Renaissance masters including Raphael and Michelangelo. In the case of Sir Grayson Perry, the country’s best-known cross dressing potter, his activities are documented by a self-styled “burnt-out celebrity photographer”, Richard Ansett.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Stephen Smith
With a statue of England skipper Harry Kane unveiled this week, there are enough life-size effigies of famous footballers around to form a decent defensive wall. They’re sufficiently sturdy to block a free kick, although they’re vulnerable to the volleys of art critics. The country’s leading goalscorer joins Cristiano Ronaldo, the Manchester City great Vincent Kompany, the World Cup winner Bobby Moore and others in having a likeness made of him.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Stephen Smith
The Gothic is always with us. Instead of talking about revivals of this style, we would be better off thinking in terms of the remorseless tread of the undead. Only someone who never sleeps could keep tabs on how regularly brooding Medieval motifs pop up in culture.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Stephen Smith
Aby and Mary Warburg with Elise and Heinrich Brockhaus, in 1898 You might imagine that memes – the images and scraps of video that follow you around the internet – were dreamt up by tech bros in Silicon Valley or by a social media whizz in his back bedroom.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Stephen Smith
The assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump was the shot heard around the world, to borrow a phrase about the American war of independence, and it was recorded in a much reproduced still photograph: the shot seen around the world. That shows a bloodied Trump pumping his fist under the American flag as he is surrounded by four secret service personnel on the stage at a rally in Pennsylvania.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Stephen Smith
The assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump was the shot heard around the world, to borrow a phrase about the American war of independence, and it was recorded in a much reproduced still photograph: the shot seen around the world. That shows a bloodied Trump pumping his fist under the American flag as he is surrounded by four secret service personnel on the stage at a rally in Pennsylvania.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Stephen Smith
Ernest Hemingway, who knew a lot of artists, said the essential gift for a writer was a bullshit detector, and Lynn Barber’s crackles and wows like a Geiger counter during her adventures in the art world. The author of An Education, which was made into a film starring Carey Mulligan, Barber is also Fleet Street’s deadeye interviewer, who has drawn a bead on painters from Salvador Dalí to Sir David Hockney and Tracey Emin.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Stephen Smith
Some people are so fed up with the present UK government that they cannot wait to see someone else—anyone else—in power. But how would they feel if they woke up one morning to find a bunch of artists in charge instead? Let us say that the shark-pickler Damien Hirst was handed the environment brief, while serial-shredder Michael Landy was left alone with sensitive documents of state.
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May 7, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Stephen Smith
The artist Osman Yousefzada has installed a small boat at the heart of his new show, as political controversy rages over what to do about vessels of similar size carrying migrants across the Channel to the UK. Where It Began, at the Cartwright Hall in Bradford, includes what appears to be a heavily lacquered rowing boat, as distinct from one of the inflatable dinghies familiar from TV news footage.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
theartnewspaper.com | Stephen Smith
The people of Ukraine will be heard and seen as never before this weekend in events to mark the second anniversary of the Russian invasion. Launched in Kyiv on 22 February, the Museum of Civilian Voices is a repository of 100,000 stories told by men, women and children living in the warzone.
