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    Leigh Bowery at Tate Modern, Ukraine’s art world three years on, Max Beckmann and the Gothic Modern—podcast

    Leigh Bowery at Tate Modern, Ukraine’s art world three years on, Max Beckmann and the Gothic Modern—podcast

    Tate Modern this week opened a vast exhibition exploring the life and work of the maverick Australian-born performance artist, fashion designer and self-styled “club monster”, Leigh Bowery, as well as the variety of cultural figures in his orbit in London.


    Techno-Fascism Comes to America

    Techno-Fascism Comes to America

    Accelerationism has been popularized in the past decade by the British philosopher Nick Land, who is part of the so-called neo-reactionary or Dark Enlightenment movement populated by figures including Curtis Yarvin, a former programmer and blogger whose proposals for an American monarchy have enjoyed renewed relevance during Trump 2.0.


    The New York Drama Critics’ Circle Goes Metal

    The New York Drama Critics’ Circle Goes Metal

    On one table was a giant human arm, part of a monument of Father Capodanno bound for Staten Island; in back was a plaster mold of the head of Martin Luther King, Jr., for a bust that sits in the Oval Office.


    Why was the National Gallery shy of sharing its ‘Wilton Diptych’ report?

    Why was the National Gallery shy of sharing its ‘Wilton Diptych’ report?

    As we near the National Gallery’s much-anticipated double reveal of its collection rehang and remodelled Sainsbury Wing, here is a curious tale about its instinct to remain closed, at least in spirit.


    We’d Never Had a King Until This Week

    We’d Never Had a King Until This Week

    I would plunk my tricorne hat atop my head and meet the incoming waves of visitors, herding them around the Common and telling them the story of the April morning in 1775 when brave townspeople made their stand against the British and their king in the first fighting of the Revolution.


    Artists Protest New Anti-Diversity Policy at National Endowment for the Arts

    Artists Protest New Anti-Diversity Policy at National Endowment for the Arts

    More than 460 visual artists, dancers, and poets signed a letter in protest of the requirements for grant applications accepted by the NEA this month in compliance with President Trump’s latest executive order, one in a growing list intended to shape what art is made and displayed in America.


    Danielle Sassoon’s American Bravery

    Danielle Sassoon’s American Bravery

    In exchange for Adams’s coöperation with Trump’s immigration crackdown, Bove’s memo said, the Justice Department was prepared to endorse the Mayor’s unsubstantiated theory of the case against him: that it was a politically motivated prosecution provoked by his criticism of former President Joe Biden’s border policies.


    Reeling from wholesale slashing of US aid, Ukraine’s cultural and heritage sector considers its future

    Reeling from wholesale slashing of US aid, Ukraine’s cultural and heritage sector considers its future

    Fiona Greenland is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, one of several prestigious US institutions that contribute to the Conflict Observatory, and the co-chair of the Cultural Resilience Informatics and Analysis (Curia) Lab, which released a report in January on the environmental impact of Russia’s destruction of the Oskil dam on the Sviati Hory National Park.


    Roman basilica discovered beneath London office block

    Roman basilica discovered beneath London office block

    The 2,000-year-old ruins, once a public building where major political, economic and administrative decisions were made, were found underneath 85 Gracechurch Street, a commercial office close to Bank tube station and London Bridge, which is due to be demolished.


    Artists and scientists join forces for Finland climate crisis project

    Artists and scientists join forces for Finland climate crisis project

    Begum, who was born in Bangladesh, another country that is highly vulnerable to climate change, told The Art Newspaper: “During my research visits to Oulu, I have been struck by the exceptional beauty of the low Arctic light, along with the wonderful walks along the seafront, where I have observed the many shapes of the frozen and melting sea ice.


    New gallery championing women and queer artists to open in east London

    New gallery championing women and queer artists to open in east London

    “I had my heart set on it because, as an artist, I did a performance in Arnold Circus at the end of the road and I did some community classes in this building too, so it felt the right space for me.” She adds: “I find the Shoreditch art scene really exciting—I’m a big admirer of galleries like Emalin, Kate MacGarry, Maureen Paley.”


    French culture sector faces ‘violent’ cuts as parliament adopts 2025 budget

    French culture sector faces ‘violent’ cuts as parliament adopts 2025 budget

    In its appeal, the AcadĂ©mie des beaux-arts also denounced “verbal attacks against arts and artists launched by some local politicians” who are seeking to justify the cuts and threatening the “freedom of research and creation, necessary to our democracy”.


    How Artists Are Reframing Climate Doom

    How Artists Are Reframing Climate Doom

    A silicone cast of a peach tree from her garden that failed to survive Los Angeles’s heat and drought hangs upside down from the ceiling, with bits of delicate bark clinging to its limp branches.


    FKA Twigs Leaves It All on the Dance Floor

    FKA Twigs Leaves It All on the Dance Floor

    When I asked about Charli XCX’s “BRAT” and Beyoncé’s “Renaissance”—two of the biggest club albums of the past several years, each backed by expensive arena tours and hefty production budgets—she distanced herself from those records, calling them “brilliant” but “commercial.” Where they had borrowed from some of the same scenes, she told me, “ ‘Eusexua’ was born from a crevice of subculture.” (Reconciling her celebrity status with her genuine desire to be immersed in—and regarded as—part of the underground can be a challenge.


    Mourning David Lynch in a City on Fire

    Mourning David Lynch in a City on Fire

    Exiting through the lobby, you couldn’t miss a familiar, heartening post-screening buzz: sounds of laughter and exasperation; hesitant, hazardous attempts at analysis; confused variations on “What was that all about?” We could have just seen “Eraserhead” or “Blue Velvet,” or stumbled out of “Mulholland Drive,” as some friends and I did, not too far away, more than two decades earlier.


    Trump disbands presidential committee on the arts and the humanities

    Trump disbands presidential committee on the arts and the humanities

    Other Biden appointees included the artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, the curator Nora Halpern, the actors George Clooney, Jennifer Garner and Kerry Washington, the playwright Anna Deavere Smith, the screenwriter and producer Shonda Rhimes and Steve Israel, a former US representative for New York.


    Ayesha Singh’s India Art Fair tent commission remembers the forgotten women of Indian architecture

    Ayesha Singh’s India Art Fair tent commission remembers the forgotten women of Indian architecture

    The inclusion of Begum adds a further political layer to the work: in 2023, India’s National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) removed significant sections of Mughal history from school textbooks under the guise of “rationalising” the syllabus.


    “Mo” ’s Urgent, Uneven Homecoming

    “Mo” ’s Urgent, Uneven Homecoming

    It’s pulled in less compelling directions by the broad caricatures who now populate the edges of the story, including a marriage-crazed blonde hottie Mo humors until he can’t, and a recently green-card-approved friend whose gun collection seems considerably more expansive than his English-language vocabulary.