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Future of technology
Artificial ‘creativity’ is unstoppable. Grappling with its ethics is up to us
23 minutes
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Art
Milk, pity and power
Since antiquity, artists have depicted a perverse scene of a daughter breastfeeding her aged father. What does it mean?
Margie Orford
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Global history
The strange journey of the Parthenon Marbles to the British Museum
10 minutes
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Stories and literature
The key to a vampire’s immortality? Meeting the anxieties of the moment
15 minutes
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Art
The female Abstract Expressionists of New York shook the world of art
15 minutes
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Art
At 95, an artist paints swiftly to capture the fugitive light
6 minutes
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Art
Edward Hopper came of age with cinema. As an artist, he left a lasting mark on it
12 minutes
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Art
The revolutionary artist who propelled the Black Panther movement with imagery
8 minutes
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Art
Can art in a swanky restaurant ever be transcendent? On Rothko’s Seagram Murals
15 minutes
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Art
What does an AI make of what it sees in a contemporary art museum?
15 minutes
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Art
‘Long Live Degenerate Art’ – how a Surrealist group in Cairo defied repression in 1938
4 minutes
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Art
A massive art installation attempts to put the COVID-19 deaths in perspective
15 minutes
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Art
Dizzying discs and obscene wordplay – revisiting Marcel Duchamp’s 1926 film debut
7 minutes
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Biology
Seeing life
Driven by insatiable curiosity, early histologists revealed the hidden structures of cells in works of sensual artistry
Benjamin Ehrlich
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History
The smile: a history
How our toothy modern smile was invented by a confluence of French dentistry and Parisian portrait-painting in the 1780s
Colin Jones
essay
Art
Her body is a problem
When 1970s women artists put the female body under the female gaze, why did the critics see only obscene monsters?
Lauren Elkin
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Art
Is paying with hand-drawn banknotes artistry or forgery? The knotty case of J S G Boggs
10 minutes
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Art
Grotesque imagery meets religious conservatism in Hieronymus Bosch’s art
51 minutes
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Art
A mindbending trip that summons the forgotten women of surrealism
17 minutes
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Making
Ceramic designs spin to life in a tactile meditation on the art of pottery
9 minutes
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Beauty and aesthetics
Does the artist’s intention matter, or is it indeed all in the eye of the beholder?
4 minutes
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Art
From archaeology digs to display cabinets: how museums bring exhibits to life
37 minutes
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Beauty and aesthetics
Why Caspar David Friedrich pits nature’s grandeur against the humble human
7 minutes
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Art
An artistic collaboration across centuries brings a 1432 battle scene to arresting life
2 minutes