He was born in Farnborough, Kent, and raised in nearby St Paul’s Cray, the first child of William Barnes, chief executive of the Mullard electrical components company, and his wife, Eileen (nee Hiley), a seamstress at Morphy Richards. His parents supported him in everything and he had a happy childhood. […]
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0 Chuck Close, a Photorealist painter who earned acclaim for his incisive portraits and more recently faced criticism after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment, has died at 81. Pace Gallery, which represents him, said on Thursday that he had died after a congestive heart failure resulting from a long […]
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0 The world’s largest painting, which was created by British artist Sacha Jafri, has been sold for £45m to raise funds for children’s charities. Jafri spent eight months painting the 1,600 sq m (17,000 sq ft) artwork in a deserted hotel’s ballroom in Dubai. He planned to sell it in 70 […]
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0 “Who wants to be famous?” screams Divine in John Waters’s 1974 comedy Female Trouble. “Who wants to die for art?” Even if Waters himself won’t die for art exactly, he will, when he dies, donate his art collection—to his hometown institution, the Baltimore Museum of Art. The beloved cult filmmaker and visual artist will […]
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0 Some of the iconic scenes of Hong Kong democracy protests will be preserved permanently through a monumental sculpture by the California-based Chinese artist Chen Weiming, who wants to pay tribute to the protesters and the city that has been supporting the democracy movement in mainland China for the past three […]
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0 Louise Bourgeois’s art took many different forms, and it often explored topics such as memory, sex, and trauma. But the works that have come to define the late artist’s career are her sculptures of spiders, some of which tower 30 feet into the air and menacingly loom over viewers’ heads. […]
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0 May 02, 1519. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and […]
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0 Abstract artist and key member of the British constructivists group in the late 1950s and 60s Visitors to Cinema 1 at the Barbican Centre in London arrive via a stairwell clad in metal panels spray-painted in vivid geometric forms. These are an artwork: The Alice Walls, created for the centre’s opening in […]
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0 The activist and artist Ai Weiwei has taken to sharing screenshots of his FaceTime conversations, including one with his mom. This series of photos on the artist’s Instagram account captures the daily ritual of video calling that many around the world are continuing to practice. But that’s not the artist’s only […]
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0 The elusive street artist Banksy took to Instagram to share images of a bathroom decorated with the artist’s signature rat stencils. The photos posted, which are accompanied by the caption “my wife hates it when I work from home,” show rats getting up to all kinds of trouble. One appears to run […]
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