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Jun 22, 2026 Akseli Gallen-Kallela: The Painter of Finland's Soul A nation barely allowed to be a nation found its face in one painter's brush. Akseli Gallen-Kallela turned the Kalevala ... Jun 22, 2026 French Fries Killing Lovers: Bugo (Cristian Bugatti) at New Delhi A sign six metres by three, reading 'French fries killing lovers', installed on a street in Ghaziabad outside New Delhi ... Jun 21, 2026 In Praise of the Visible Hand The wobble in the line, the thumbprint in the clay, the seam that didn't quite meet — for a decade these were errors t... Jul 22, 2014 Marina Abramović: 512 Hours Three empty rooms. No phones, no cameras, no watches. For 512 hours Marina Abramović offered the public nothing but her... Jul 10, 2013 The Color Project: Adrien Broom's Rooms of One Hue A girl steps through a series of rooms, each one drowned in a single saturated colour — red, then blue, then gold. Adr... Jun 20, 2013 CURVY: A Decade of Women Who Draw Since 2003, CURVY has put 100 female illustrators in print every year — from the obvious art capitals to Malta, Moscow... Jun 12, 2013 Art Is a Relationship A watercolour pond of goldfish laid on a greenhouse floor; a plaster girl hidden among the plants; a family studied like... May 20, 2013 March Studio: Designing With What's Left Over Founded in 2007 on a shoestring, March Studio turned scarcity into a method — recycled materials, leftover packaging, ... Apr 15, 2013 Sandrine Pelletier: Goodbye Horses Wool dipped in molten latex and tar, spread thinly over a horse-shaped mould, the wire skeleton then pulled out — leav... Apr 9, 2013 Two Words With: Olivier Valsecchi Bodies dissolving into clouds of ash, half-sculpture, half-disappearance. The French photographer Olivier Valsecchi talk... Mar 18, 2013 Olivia Fraser: The Modern Miniaturist Hand-ground lapis and malachite, paper burnished smooth, brushes of a few squirrel hairs. The Scottish-born painter Oliv... Mar 12, 2013 David Pidgeon: The Designer Who Aims for the Moon “Aim for the moon.” David Pidgeon can't draw to save himself, by his own admission — and yet his typographic exper...