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Animals & Us: An art show about how we interact with creatures

9 May 2018

A polar bear loose in the streets of a famous seaside town sets the stage for an art show to ask tough questions


atom bomb head

Bombhead and Bombs Away: when remembering is an art

2 May 2018

Powerful reminders of our nuclear and military past echo in an uncertain present, with a show in Vancouver and new book pulling no punches


Snails in performance

The world's first snail orchestra makes its crunchy debut

30 April 2018

Among these musical trailblazers, love is free, and life is cheap


Great Apes play

The cast goes ape in a stage adaptation of a Will Self novel

29 March 2018

You and your pals morph into upscale-chimps overnight and must negotiate a London with very different norms. That’s the nightmare premise of a new satire


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Inside the cryptic world of UK computer art pioneer Paul Brown

7 March 2018

Brown’s Process, Chance, and Serendipity exhibition in Washington DC celebrates a great digital artistic career, but some works are curiously neutered


ceiling cat

Data as Culture: Humour and absurdity stalk the internet

2 February 2018

A stuffed cat in a ceiling and the value of poetry to algorithms are part of the fun at a new show probing internet culture, privacy and AI


zebra exhibits

A show uniting art and nature that should just be experienced

19 December 2017

A famous gallery in Vienna shows what can happen when curators get in the way of the natural enjoyment of the art


Life drawing class

Technology vs observation: the big question facing art’s future

13 December 2017

Tech offers new ways to create art, a London show makes clear, but it may compromise life drawing – and the honest observation at the heart of all great work


Setting up blood artwork

Bloody exhibition is only for the brave and the bold

20 October 2017

A room is coated in the red stuff in Blood: Life Uncut, a queasy, seductive exploration put together by the team behind the forthcoming Science Gallery London


Snap decisions: Thomas Ruff's show is, literally, off colour

Snap decisions: Thomas Ruff's show is, literally, off colour

28 September 2017

A photographer once known for reimagining portraiture now gives astronomy a disconcerting makeover at London’s Whitechapel Gallery


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