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Discover 5 of Picasso’s Printing Techniques at the New British Museum Exhibition

The British Museum is hosting a new exhibition of prints by Pablo Picasso. Renowned mostly for his paintings, such as ground-breaking cubist...

Edoardo Cesarino 11 November 2024

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Top 10 Artworks to See at Friends in Love and War in Birmingham

Friends in Love and War - L’Éloge des meilleur·es ennemi·es. Showing at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. We choose our favourite exhibits celebrating friendship in contemporary life.

Candy Bedworth 11 November 2024

Photography

The Women Who Changed Photography: Book Review

Established writer of photography Gemma Padley has created an overview of significant women photographers in her newest book, The Women Who Changed...

Mary Margaret Swets 11 November 2024

Nan Goldin, Self-portrait with eyes turned inward, Boston, 1989. © Nan Goldin. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Review

This Will Not End Well by Nan Goldin: The International Tour

In her latest solo exhibition, American photographer Nan Goldin immerses viewers in the intimate highs and lows of the human experience—not as...

Emily Snow 24 October 2024

Review

Muse: Uncovering the Hidden Figures in Art History

Muse – Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art History’s Masterpieces by Ruth Millington is a fascinating book that aims, and one could even...

Aniela Rybak-Vaganay 22 October 2024

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How the History of Beauty Made Me Furious and Why—All the Rage by Virginia Nicholson

When did you last read a book that made you angry but still wanted to read on? What is a no-legs woman? Are pockets political? Might tanning be...

Kate Wojtczak 7 October 2024

Review

Book Review: Great Women Sculptors. Premiering in September!

There have been a plethora of recent surveys of women artists, including Phaidon’s own Great Women Artists (2019) and Great Women Painters...

Catriona Miller 23 September 2024

Review

5 Reasons to See Frida: Beyond the Myth Exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art

Frida Kahlo, the Mexican artist known for her powerful and surreal self-portraits, is honored through a unique exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art...

Mary Margaret Swets 19 September 2024

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Book Review: Beyond Vanity, The History and Power of Hairdressing by Elizabeth L. Block

Elizabeth L. Block, an art historian and Senior Editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, presents her latest work, Beyond Vanity: The...

Errika Gerakiti 6 September 2024

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Do Good. Buy Art. Here’s How.

Written by New York cultural economist Magnus Resch, How to Collect Art (Phaidon Press, January 2024) tells the story of the art market as a place in...

Helen Jeffery 6 September 2024

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All the Beauty in the World: An Insider’s Look Into The Metropolitan Museum

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me is a portrait, a memoir, almost a poem, written by Patrick Bringley about the ten...

Ledys Chemin 6 September 2024

Review

Nothing Ever Just Disappears: A Queer Sense of Place

How does the place where art was created impact the work itself? And, in turn, can art influence how we view those very places? Diarmuid Hester...

Jenna Burns 6 September 2024