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Andean artist Antonio Paucar wins Artes Mundi prize in Wales
3+ hour, 23+ min ago (792+ words) Artist and beekeeper who highlights eco crisis plans to spend "40,000 award on building cultural centre in Peru An artist and beekeeper from a remote corner of the Andes has won one of the UK's most prestigious contemporary arts awards and…...
‘Bigger and lower’: bull in Dutch painting once had much larger testicles
9+ hour, 40+ min ago (565+ words) Experts at the Mauritshuis in The Hague believe Paulus Potter toned down The Bull to respect 17th-century sensibilities The Bull by Paulus Potter is one of the star paintings at the Mauritshuis in The Hague, a bucolic image of animals…...
Colin Ford obituary | Photography
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (236+ words) Born in Battersea, south-west London, Colin was the son of H'l'ne (nee Jones), an amateur singer, and John Ford, an electrical engineer. He developed a love of music and performance, and his brother, Martyn, became a professional musician. After attending…...
Bronx dog-walkers in the rubble of a dangerous New York: Camilo José Vergara’s best photograph
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (527+ words) Bronx dog-walkers in the rubble of a dangerous New York: Camilo Jos" Vergara's best photograph'The Guardian "Huge parts of the city were being destroyed. This was part of my attempt to preserve the whole damn thing. The area became a…...
‘I knew these photos wouldn’t be published for decades’: gay cruising in New York – in pictures
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (62+ words) In 1969, Arthur Tress started making images at an overgrown corner of Central Park known as the Ramble " the beginning of an archive of a transitional period in queer culture Continue reading... In 1969, Arthur Tress started making images at an overgrown…...
An icy swim and luscious lupins– readers’ best photographs
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (27+ words) Click here to submit a picture for publication in these online galleries and/or on the Guardian letters page Continue reading... Lake "hau, South Island, New Zealand...
Joseph Beuys review – the grotesque bathtub containing all the horrors of modern history
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (676+ words) Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, LondonThere's no escape from the torments of the past in this show, which celebrates the German artist at his most Wagnerian, enchanting and sickening you simultaneouslyBorn in 1921, Joseph Beuys was the "perfect" age to fight for Hitler…...
Monochrome marvels: LensCulture’s best black-and-white photography – in pictures
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (108+ words) A brutal nomadic sport, quiet childhood reveries and stark human endurance define the photographs that wowed this year's judges Continue reading... Kartikeya Manan: Patience (1st place single image winner) Todd Antony: Buzkashi (1st place series winner) Maurice Wolf: Sheep Drive in Tusheti…...
‘Her time has come’: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove?
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (574+ words) Piet Mondrian found fame, fortune and glory with his grid-like paintings lit with basic colours. But did many of his ideas come from Marlow Moss? Our writer celebrates an extraordinary British talent who died in obscurity In 1972, the mighty Kunstmuseum…...
‘It was inspired by a snog in a photo-booth’: how Thompson Twins made Hold Me Now
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (319+ words) We had a disagreement that spilled over into personal insults. But we soon made up " and wrote this about the process" Thompson Twins were a seven-piece, rag-bag, guitar-based band living in a squat when I met Alannah Currie, who was…...