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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

The Wiltshire gallery attracts 150 to 200 visitors a day and large-scale sculpture shows are the biggest draw, alongside regular talks and symposiums, says its founder Johnny Messum. 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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MoMA picks chief curator of prints and drawings as next director

The Art Newspaper

Christophe Cherix will replace Glenn Lowry, who has been the museums director since 1995 and guided it through two important expansions

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Chardin’s strawberries masterpiece forms fruity backdrop to Dior catwalk

The Art Newspaper

In a room modelled on the Gemäldegalerie at the Kulturforum in Berlin, Jonathan Anderson, Dior’s new creative designer, bedecked models in outfits drawing on 18th- and 19th-century French menswear.

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Why artificial intelligence artists can be seen as ‘builders’, ‘breakers’—or both at once

The Art Newspaper

I draw with decades of my own movement data or create proprioceptive mappings triggered by alpha [brain] waves. They don’t reject technology wholesale Michelle Kuo, chief curator at large, Museum of Modern Art It means active engagement with AI—even to break it.

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The Art of Henri Matisse’s Paper Cut-Out Sculptures

Sarasota Antique Buyers

History and Journey of Henri Matisse Matisse, along with Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, is credited with being one of the three artists who helped define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts during the earlier decades of the twentieth century. The first recorded use of the paper cut out technique by Henri Matisse was in 1919.

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Patrick Boyd Carpenter: ' It’s a Proper Old Fashioned Antique Shop.'

Grays Antiques

Influenced by Giacometti and the Surrealists, now much of his work is exhibited at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. In terms of stock, I’ve got a good selection, Master drawings, sculptures, oils, textile, and prints. My collection is British and European art, and I particularly like drawings.