Richard Long never carries water with him when he walks. The legendary British land artist, who famously turned walking into an art form, has tramped for days, sometimes weeks, through terrains as barren as the South African Karoo desert, India’s tribal lands and the Hoggar mountains of southern Algeria
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The Wall of Liars and Deniers: the artwork compiling the biggest US election lies | Art and design
“I read this book called The Dictator’s Handbook, and if Trump could read, I’d have said he was going word-for-word from this book.” I’m talking with artist Phil Buehler, who recently installed a 50ft long banner called the Wall of Liars and Deniers, centered around Donald Trump’s “big lie” that
‘This is a state of emergency’: the US billboards using art to urge abortion access | Design
For the next few weeks, passersby in 14 US cities, many in states with curtailed or tenuous abortion access, will see clear, strikingly positive messages responding to the reproductive health crisis in the US.
“Abortion is Healthcare,” says one billboard in Louisville, Kentucky, where the right to abortion is
Walls that talk: how to buy real art in lockdown, from budget finds to custom commissions | Art and design
You’ve been locked down and staring at the walls for months. It’s time for a change of scene.
But galleries are closed. You don’t know anyone who works for one. You don’t run with an art-savvy crowd. You’ve never been invited to an exhibition opening. And let’s say you’ve got
Back for good: the fine art of repairing broken things | Art and design
When Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932, he portrayed a society in which the importance of discarding old clothes was whispered into the ears of sleeping children (“Ending is better than mending. The more stitches, the less riches”) – so vital was the imperative to drive consumption