This webcomic made it okay to be sad online. Then its artist vanished. The author of ‘Pictures for Sad Children’ went AWOL after a 2014 Kickstarter drama. In an exclusive interview, she explains why she had to unplug from the internet.
Magritte: A Life by Alex Danchev review – a man of mystery
This insightful biography of the surrealist painter contends that to his peers he was a hero and outsider who resisted symbolic readings of his artUnlike his surrealist contemporaries, René Magritte tended to keep Freud at a distance from his work – th…
Frida Kahlo self-portrait sold for record $34.9m at auction
Diego y yo (1949) becomes most expensive Kahlo and Latin American work to go under the hammerIt is one of Frida Kahlo’s last self-portraits and represents the artist’s vulnerability and emotional turmoil over her husband Diego Rivera’s adultery.Seven d…
The Red Dress
“This dress is pure sisterhood”
The Red Dress is the culmination of a 12 year project spanning 28 countries and 244 embroiderers. The project’s website.
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Artist’s Instagram page.
Pollinator art
If pollinators designed gardens, what would humans see? “Pollinators see colours differently from us, forage in different ways, and emerge in different seasons to each other. As a result, a garden designed for them may look quite different from a garde…
I Would Like You to be Pleased with the Idea
After introducing himself, [Jasper] Johns told [Jéan-Marc] Togodgue about a decision he had made that would forever link the 91-year-old, Georgia-born art legend with the 17-year-old student and basketball standout. It would also spark a legal dispute …
格差の現実か、悪ふざけか…無料サービスに頼り21日間生活 中国で芸術家の映像作品が議論呼ぶ：東京新聞 TOKYO Web
北京の芸術家、鄒雅琦（すうがき）さん（２３）が、芸術系の名門大学「中央美術学院」の卒業制作として、一銭も使わずに２１日間生活する様子を映像にまとめた。頼ったのは、鄒さんが社会の「余剰物質」と呼ぶ無料サービス。北京では富裕層を対象にしたこの種のサービスがあふれる一方、貧困層は日々の暮らしにあえぐ。…
From The Card Counter to Diana Ross: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment
Whether it is Vegas gamblers, Peruvian art treasures or one-off jazz collaborations you’re after, our critics have your plans for the week coveredThe Card CounterOut nowOscar Isaac (pictured, above) burns up the screen in the role of a former Guantánam…
京都の「異なる顔」がアートを通じて浮かび上がる：「ALTERNATIVE KYOTO もうひとつの京都」レポート
京都には歴史や文化、豊かな自然が広がっている。多くの神社仏閣が人々を引き寄せる市の中心とその周縁だけでなく、そのほかの地域がもつ資源の魅力をアートの力で引き出すべく始まったアートプロジェクトの集大成が、「ALTERNATIVE KYOTO もうひとつの京都」だ。アートの表現を通じて豊かな地域資源を可視化するというこのフェスティヴァルの意図を、6組の作家による表現から読み解く。
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Petrit Halilaj: ‘I started to live with fear on a daily basis’
The artist was 12 when the Kosovo war destroyed his home, but a chance meeting in a refugee camp led him to document a child’s-eye view of the conflictPetrit Halilaj was 12 years old when Serbian troops moved into his Kosovar village, forcing his famil…