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The spotlight turns on south London on 5 June where exciting young artists are getting their debut shows and veterans who represented Britain at the Venice Biennale are making a comeback

With stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. today, im in the white cube gallery in london as cultural life starts to re—establish itself after many months of lockdown, and my guests are the artistic duo gilbert and george. now, for five decades, theyve been producing controversial, provocative work, and this exhibition they call new normal pictures. but is there anything normal about gilbert and george? gilbert and george, welcome, both of you, to hardtalk. thanks very much. v...

Wet Paint: NFT Collective Whines Over Cryptopunks Sale, Coveted Young Artist Joins Hauser & Wirth, & More Art-World Gossip Which art dealer is sitting courtside at Knicks playoff games? What famed artist-made house hit the market? Read on for answers. Nine CryptoPunks at Christies 21st-century evening sale on May 13, 2021. Courtesy of Christies. Every week, Artnet News Pro brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops reported and written by Nate Freeman. If you have a tip, email Nat...

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Mount Street in Mayfair, London Photo: Ewan Munro / Flickr The Contemporary Art Society (CAS) charity, which supports museums and artists across the UK, is setting up shop in Mayfair on 4 June. CAS is moving into a temporary space on Mount Street—lent by the London collectors Freddy and Muriel Salem—during London Gallery Weekend, selling works by artists such as Lubaina Himid and Roger Hiorns with proceeds going to the charity. The space is due to be open until August....

a href= https://www.royalacademy.org.uk target= _blank The Royal Academy of Arts /a is presenting Michael Armitage: Paradise Edict. Born in Kenya

How Artist Ellen Altfest Built a Fully Functioning Studio Outdoors—and Manages to Resist Cell-Phone Distractions While Painting There The artist’s current show of watercolors is on view now at White Cube. Ellen Altfest. © Vincent Dillio. Ellen Altfest paints her subjects—gourds, armpits, male anatomy—in such painstakingly fine detail that it can take months, or even years, to realize a single composition. In recent years, Altfest, who is based in New York, has increasingly turned her e...

May 25, 2021 A protest in front of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, 2021. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) It’s been a tumultuous few years for the art world. In the United States, the election of Donald Trump served as a moment of political awakening for many: Well-intentioned artists began to make explicitly political art—some of it quite moving, more of it not—and initiated or joined various organizing efforts. Institutions exhibited artists from communitie...

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