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The legacy of the Baghdad Modern Art Group is explored in first major US show

The Art Newspaper

All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, organised by the specialists Nada Shabout and Tiffany Floyd together with the museum’s chief curator, Lauren Cornell, unites 64 works of painting, sculpture and drawings by 30 artists including Dia al-Azzawi and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.

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Commercial goes pastoral: the draw of showing art in the open air

The Art Newspaper

In 1994, Madeleine Bessborough moved the New Art Centre , the sculpture gallery she established in London in 1958, to Roche Court in Wiltshire, built for Lord Nelson in 1804. Messum says that many children have received little or no art education since the creative arts were downgraded to a non-core subject in 2010.

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As Iraq's economy shows signs of recovery, a thirst for new art is emerging

The Art Newspaper

The highlight, he says, was the workshop Babil Performance Art conducted in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Babylon, where students are confined to learning painting and sculpture. The country’s National Museum of Modern Art was severely looted during the 2003 American invasion and it is now utterly dilapidated.

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Home of murdered Pakistani artist Ismail Gulgee becomes a museum

The Art Newspaper

Across South Asia, Modern art receives comparatively little popular or academic attention. It can be very difficult to understand what cannot be seen—many of the finest paintings and sculptures are siloed in private collections in the homes of rich men in Karachi, Mumbai and Dhaka.

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Jaeger-LeCoultre Clocks

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The Essential Guide to Minimalist Art: 10 Artists Who Mastered the Art of Simplicity

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Challenging traditional notions of artistic expression, Minimalism pushed the boundaries of what art can be – and its concentrated form of beauty would leave a lasting legacy. His vocabulary of visual art contained lines with simplified colors and shapes, which are evident in his Wall Structure Blue (1962) and his Wall Drawings.

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Three works by artist and sexual abuser Eric Gill withdrawn from UK exhibition after consultation with survivors group

The Art Newspaper

Gill’s art has been controversial since his abuse and incestuous relationship with his sister, Gladys, came to light in a 1989 biography by Fiona MacCarthy. A sculpture on the front of BBC Broadcasting House in London, depicting Prospero and Ariel, has been vandalised twice—in 2022 and 2023.