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The New East photo prize 2020 shortlist – in pictures
Calvert 22 Foundation and The Calvert Journal have announced the finalists of the New East photo prize 2020. T…
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700-year-old drunken princes scroll fetches £32m in Hong Kong
Painting by government official Ren Renfa bears seals of several Chinese emperorsA 700-year-old Chinese painte…
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The art of tantra: is there more to it than marathon sex and massages?
The west reduced tantra to a quest for sexual liberation and wellness. But a new show charts its darker depths…
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Portrait of a mentor: ‘granddaddy’ of National Art School campus finds himself the subject
Papua New Guinean student Lesley Wengembo has painted campus assistant Mal Nagobi for Australia’s famous Archi…
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Imperial War Museum unveils film marking 75 years since Hiroshima bomb
Video by Es Devlin and Machiko Weston tells story of nuclear bombing in Hiroshima and NagasakiA powerful 10-mi…
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Artlords, not warlords – how Kabul’s artists battle for the streets
Muralists are covering the Afghan capital’s blast walls with agitprop imagery and calling out corruptionFrom t…
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Bird figurine is earliest Chinese artwork ever discovered, say experts
‘Refined’ 2cm carving found in Henan dates to palaeolithic period up to 13,000 years agoA tiny figurine of a b…
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India asks Oxford museum to return ‘stolen’ bronze statue
Ashmolean receives request for restitution of 15th-century idol of Saint Tirumankai Alvar The Indian governmen…
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Sex please, we’re the British Museum: Tantra exhibition to open
Curator assures the public that stereotype-busting show will not include Sting or Kama SutraForget “no sex ple…
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Ai Weiwei on his new life in the UK: ‘People are at least polite. In Germany, they weren’t’
Devastated by his time in Germany, which he regards as still Nazi, the artist has moved. As he unveils a power…
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The murals brightening a Delhi slum – in pictures
Raghubir Nagar has been given a colourful makeover by the Delhi Street Art group, drawing art lovers and selfi…
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‘The scene has exploded’: China gets set to be leading global centre for art
Shanghai is fuelling China’s transition to world’s biggest art market – despite the thorny issue of censorship…
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Fabric of a nation: couple bring the lost art of Pakistan to the world
Fifty years of documenting Sindh’s visual history has culminated in a new project for Nasreen and Hasan Askari…
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Australian gallery accused of censoring democracy activists over Hong Kong event
Singer Denise Ho and cartoonist Badiucao question National Gallery of Victoria’s decision to decline panel whi…
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Fights, festivals, fear: Sohrab Hura’s angst-ridden India
With his photographs of out-of-control hedonism, punch-ups and blood-letting rituals, Hura captures a nation i…