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Tacita Dean’s name gives a lot away. Her father, Joseph Dean, was a lawyer who studied classics at Merton College, Oxford...

Sue Hubbard looks at Damien Hirst's Mother And Child (Divided) in her latest critical study for Artlyst's Significant Works.

One of the things about this series is that it provides an opportunity to look back on keynote contemporary works with a degree of hindsight.

Cornelia Parker exploded a garden shed with the help of the British army. She'd contacted them for advice.

Hangzhous Fuyang District and its surrounding areas offer great getaways throughout the year, and M

(New York, New York) MULTITUDES will open on January 21, 2021, at the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) (2 Lincoln Sq., Columbus Ave. at W. 65th St.). Organized on the occasion of the ...

/ What would Turner think? Would he even have recognised the artist collectives nominated for this year’s prize in his name as art? His own concerns were for the luminosity and possibilities of paint, how it could be moved around the canvas to convey a fleeting moment, the changing weather, the turbulence of skies, the great storms out at sea, what it felt like to be part of this physical, sentient world. He even (probably apocryphally) lashed himself to the mast of a ship in the centre of a...

/ What makes a Significant Work? Not necessarily what is fashionable or new but an artwork that holds its own down the years, that continues to resonate and still has something to say. It seems extraordinary that I first saw Mona Hatoum’s installation The Light at the End at The Showroom in East London in 1989. I was a young critic and fairly new to London and it quite literally stopped me in my tracks. This is what I wanted from art.  Mona Hatoum knits together the ethical and aesthetic te...

Image: Ernest Wright/NASA/GSFC Scientific Visualisation Studio “Come back, Sebastian. You are shaking. That is not a productive movement.” As Sebastian prepares to go work on the moon, he reviews his contract’s terms and conditions and wonders what his mother must think. (Lethe Press ). The bus from Stella Maris Central Terminal to the moon launch site leaves twice daily. Sebastian could take a series of different other private bus lines there from his neigh...