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The relationship between the three can be better explained by conducting a closer examination of perceived or real dominant social values in a given community. 

Exploring the ways in which painting, applied design and illustration intertwined over the course of the accomplished career of Paul Nash (1889-1946),

Moving collectively on the water surface could help protect schools of fish from being eaten by predatory birds.

British Surrealism, manifestation in Great Britain of Surrealism, a European movement in visual art and literature that flourished between World Wars I and II and a deliberate attempt to unite the conscious and unconscious in the creation of art. British Surrealism in its organized, communal form

Erasure poetry can be startling. Opening the cover to a book—or the pdf of a submission—can take a reader’s breath away when the expected source material is transformed into something new that pushes the boundaries of both art and poetry. A work of erasure is both an artifact and something alive; it is a confluence of static image and text as well as a dialogue between layers

Reviewed in This Article “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World” is at the Guggenheim Museum through January 7, 2018. The accompanying book, Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, edited by Alexandra Munroe with Philip Tinari and Hou Hanru, is published by the Guggenheim. On the evening of May 20, 1989, in response to weeks of mass demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government placed Beijing under martial law. The following morning, in Hong Kong, far to the s...

CHRISTINE LINDEY sees a retrospective of Eileen Agar's work which reflects her lifelong quest for a non-conformist art

Poet in residence appointed for Rydal Mount Kieron Winn The first person to be appointed poet in residence at Rydal Mount will take up his place next month. Kieron Winn will spend a week at the home of William Wordsworth, writing and meeting visitors to the house. Kieron’s first collection of poems, The Mortal Man, was published in 2015. He has twice won the University of Oxford’s most valuable literary award, the English Poem on a Sacred Subject Prize. Kieron studied English at Christ C...

The Making of Rodin at Tate Modern review: a master of modernity Melanie McDonagh It’s disconcerting to find Rodin in Tate Modern. We are used to seeing him in Tate Britain down the river – The Kiss has been brought here for this new exhibition – or in the V&A. He does come within Tate Modern’s remit in period (he died in 1917) but he’s one of the earliest artists to be shown there. His representational figurative sculpture will be a different experience for visitors a...

Alan Bowness was an art historian whose eye and influence shaped the British contemporary art world over more than 40 years. He never sought the limelight, but his quiet self-assurance and belief in his own convictions inspired confidence in others and made him the most persuasive and effective voice in a talented post-war generation of curators, writers and critics. In the late 1950s and through the 60s and 70s, he was a pioneering academic and a friend to a generation of abstract artists ...