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The Guardian
3 days ago
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- The Guardian
Gems from Paris, sofas from Philadelphia and cinema from puppets – the week in art
Millet: Life on the LandThe Musée d'Orsay has lent Millet's iconic Angelus for this journey to the dark side of the landscape. National Gallery, London, until 19 October Aubrey LevinthalSuperb, subtle paintings from the streets and sofas of Philadelphia. Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, until 13 September Wael ShawkyBrilliant cinematic retellings of the history of east and west, plus the surreal marionettes and sculptures that star in them. Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, until 28 September Tai ShaniShani's public sculpture The Spell or the Dream celebrates 25 years of Somerset House as an art venue. Somerset House, London, until 14 September Andy WarholPowerful examples of Warhol's work from the Artist Rooms collection cast a cool, far-seeing eye on the modern world. Lightbox Gallery, Woking, until 2 November Bridging art and politics, Peter Kennard has produced some of our most influential images of resistance and dissent since the 1970s. Gaza, his new exhibition of graphic work, showcases multimedia prints he has made in response to the daily news reports and footage of the near-erasure of Gaza and the thousands of Palestinians killed. It runs alongside the Edinburgh festival at Palestine Museum Scotland, 9-31 August. A terrific Edinburgh art festival show combines queer kings and modern wonders The Whitney's 'Untitled' show reopens the book on American history Spacecraft designers have seen the future … and it's vegetarian and polyamorous With teamwork and determination, a group of Indigenous basket weavers in the Australian desert took the art world by storm Pop star Kate Jackson has reinvented herself as an artist of Britain's motorways The performance artist, set designer and director Robert Wilson never stopped pushing boundaries Copenhagen has a second Little Mermaid statue – and it's got to go Sign up to Art Weekly Your weekly art world round-up, sketching out all the biggest stories, scandals and exhibitions after newsletter promotion Juergen Teller's coffee-table book about Auschwitz is shockingly bland Stanley Donwood looked back on 30 years creating Radiohead's artwork Landscape With a Watermill by François Boucher, 1755 In this painting from about a century before Millet's barren peasant scene The Angelus, the French countryside looks a much cheerier place. Soft focus trees form a velvety blue-green sanctuary for a mill whose dilapidation and decay strikes Boucher as delightfully picturesque. In fact, it doesn't look like a real place at all but a dreamy idyll, inspired by Chinese landscape scenes which were hugely popular in 18th-century Europe. You can picture Boucher's aristocratic clients delighting in this view of country life and even having a water mill like this one built as a garden folly beside their water feature. And yet, a drawing by Boucher apparently of this place suggests it may actually depict a real water mill beside the Seine. National Gallery, London If you don't already receive our regular roundup of art and design news via email, please sign up here. If you have any questions or comments about any of our newsletters please email newsletters@
The Herald Scotland
01-08-2025
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- The Herald Scotland
Edinburgh Fringe to feature free Gaza exhibition by famous artist
In 1980 he created a détournement of John Constable's The Hay Wain called Haywain with Cruise Missiles for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) which reimagined the famous oil painting with atomic weapons in the middle of the idyllic English country scene. Read More: Photo Op, a collaborative work with Cat Phillipps which showed Tony Blair taking a selfie in front of a burning oil field was described by art critic Jonathan Jones as "the definitive work of art about the war". A new exhibition, simply entitled Gaza will be shown at the Palestine Museum Scotland during the [[Edinburgh]] Festival Fringe. It will run from August 9 to 31 from 11am to 6pm, with admission free. Gaza is a series of prints made using a variety of mediums, including photomontage, double-exposed photographs, drawing, and paint, in response to the ongoing conflict. 'Star Spangled Banner' a work from Peter Kennard's exhibition Gaza (Image: Peter Kennard) 'Gaza Overhead' by Peter Kennard (Image: Peter Kennard) Mr Kennard's work aims to reveal the context and complexities of the situation, rather than simply depicting the horrors of war. Through his art, Kennard seeks to highlight the complicity of Western governments and their active support for Israel, encouraging viewers to think critically about the situation. Mr Kennard said: "A horrific genocide is now taking place on the civilian population in Gaza, the children, women, and men, who are being starved, bombed, and shot. "As an artist, I feel impelled to try and make images that will allow the general public to think about the massacre taking place, while the world's political leaders look on or openly support the genocide by sending weapons to Israel." Other works by Mr Kennard include @earth a photo essay focusing on climate change and human rights; Rubble, which depicts knives rising from a destroyed building; and Defended to Death which depicts the earth wearing a gas mask stuffed with warheads, with the flags of the USA and the Soviet Union on each eye.
Leaders
23-02-2025
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- Leaders
Gaza War is Most Horrific Event after Hiroshima: British Artist Peter Kennard
The British artist and activist, Peter Kennard, has harshly criticized the Israeli war against Gaza, describing it as the 'most horrific' event after Hiroshima. Kennard also lashed out at Western leaders who remain silent on what he called Israeli 'genocide.' Peter Kennard 'What is going on in Gaza is the worst, most horrific, most mind-shattering thing that happened in my life time because one is seeing it as it happens and then the other side of that is the complete silence of Western leaders. It is horrendous. How can they talk seriously about democracy? It is gone out of the window now. It doesn't exist because you can see this is a genocide happening,' he said. 'I think at the moment one of the main things about the art world is this question of Gaza because exhibitions are being shut down, people aren't allowed to make any mention of it. People that are in the art market have problems signing letters supporting Gaza because their collectors and their galleries don't want them to do it, which is disgusting,' Kennard noted. 'I mean I think it is very important that artists speak out on Gaza because this is going to go down in history as the most horrific event that most of us have lived through post-Hiroshima generation,' he added. Short link : Post Views: 37 Related Stories
