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Art Basel: 270 exhibitors show Art market's resilience

This year's fair is very different to previous editions with COVID-19 certificate checks and face masks worn throughout, but galleries don't seem to mind as Sales are up.

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Aimless walks, an iPhone Pietà and a huge gargoyle: Art Basel is back

After last years online edition, Art Basel is back in the real world for September 2021. And it starts with a Parcours event.

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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 'not all doom and gloom'

There was certainly a whole group of works dealing, of course, with either COVID and aspects of COVID directly or the period that has been behind us with a lot of dealing with loneliness and with self-reflection," says Axel Rüger.

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Dante's Divine Comedy revived in 3D video 700 years after poet's death

Engravings by Gustav Dorè illıustrating Dante's Divine Comedy have been digitized in high resolution and enlarged for a truly atmospheric effect inside the Basilica of Santa Croce

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Russia

Iconic Banksy works on display at Russian museum

The star item is a brick from Dismaland, the British artist's 2015 parody of Disney theme parks which was dismantled after its creation.

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Art Paris 2021 shows the artistic introspection of the pandemic

Art Paris 2021 is open to the public and to art professionals from the 9th of September until the 12th in the Grand Palais Ephemere. This year's guest theme takes a look at the artistic introspection of the pandemic through portraits and figuration.

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Paris Art Fair 2021 opens its doors

Art Paris 2021 has opened its doors at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in the monumental Grand Palais éphémère.

France

Big John, the biggest triceratops ever found, goes on display in Paris

"On the top of being the biggest specimen in size, it is also very well preserved, up to 60 per cent of the skeleton which is incredible."

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Rare and expensive cars on show at festival in Russia

The annual "Autoculture" festival has taken place at the Museum-Estate "Arkhangelskoye" in Moscow region.

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Movements of Olympic athletes inspire robot art in a Tokyo zen garden

The robots, which once made cars, are mesmerising visitors to Tokyo 2020 with their peaceful tracing movements.

Experiences

Get lost in nature in this immersive Japanese art exhibition

Surround yourself with nature in this stunning light and projection exhibition on the Japanese island of Kyushu.

Green News

These stunning photos capture the state of the environment globally

As the Prix Pictet sustainability award enters its ninth cycle, we take a look at how the shortlisted photographers tackled the theme of ‘Fire’.

Experiences

Delve into the wizarding world at this brand new exhibition

A new Harry Potter Photographic Exhibition in London takes you behind the scenes with these never-before-seen photos.

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This is what the future could really look like

An AI exhibit that consists of 25 works examines how we view artificial intelligence, and how it views us.

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Holocaust Memorial Exhibition Opens in Dubai

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A Holocaust Memorial Exhibition, which is the first of its kind in the Arab world, has opened in Dubai. The "We Remember" exhibition showcases first-hand testimonies of Holocaust survivors and includes a section dedicated entirely to Arabs and Muslims who helped save Jews.

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Europe takes centre stage at Cartoon Xira 2021

Portugal's iconic Cartoon Xira opens its doors until the 29th of August with satirical and comical drawings depicting current events, like the pandemic, the European Union, Trump and more.

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The 'JR: Chronicles’ exhibition opens in London's Saatchi Gallery

"You realise how both people perceive each other through the media, through the context, and how they only see the worst of the other" - JR, French artist.

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Uzbekistan participates in Venice's Architecture Biennale for the first time

In partnership with Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Uzbekistan

How will we live together? That is the main theme of the 2021 edition of the International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Uzbekistan, a first time participant, answers it with 'Mahalla: Urban Rural Living'.

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New exhibit reveals details on French icon Simone Veil's life

The exhibition at Paris's Hotel de Ville features previously unpublished documents about the life of Simone Veil

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Salgado's exhibition highlights Amazon forest destruction

Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado teamed up with musician Jean-Michel to highlight the destruction of the Amazon forest, and to slam Bolsonaro