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• The Underrated Role Of Intuition In Accomplishment

  10-03-2025 20:02 via aeon.co
  
  One day I was perfectly fine, and now, after just a few weeks away, confidence and sureness were gone. Simply put, I had lost my professional intuition. Although that explanation may seem imprecise, intuition is real, and, without it, experts lose their bearings. – Aeon
  
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• They Called Him ‘Lord of the Gadflies’ . . .

  10-03-2025 19:34 via artsjournal.com
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• ‘He said I sounded hysterical’: Celia Paul on lover Lucian Freud, his cold friends and the ‘devastating’ YBAs

  10-03-2025 17:29
  
  In prose and in paint, the great artist Celia Paul is exorcising the ghosts of her past – from the cruelties of her lover Freud, to his offhand cohorts, and the YBA revolution that declared painting deadPainter Celia Paul has lived in the same flat in Bloomsbury – bought for her by her then lover Lucian Freud – for 40 years. To ascend to it, up the 80 steps to bring you level with the pediment of the British Museum opposite, is to enter a different world. The main room contains
  
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• ‘We love involving everyone’: these married artists want you to work on their giant cardboard sculpture

  10-03-2025 15:00
  Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan are inviting Bundanon Art Museum visitors to contribute to their new work – which ‘demystifies the idea of art as an individual pursuit’Using cardboard, make habitation a better place. Draw a tree of your imagination or that you can see. Have fun and clean up.These are some of the instructions you will be invited to follow if you visit Bundanon Art Museum on the New South Wales south coast in the coming months. Should you accept, you will become par
  
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• The big idea: should we abolish art?

  10-03-2025 13:30
  
  Down with expensive trophies at art fairs: it’s time to reclaim a more radical vision of creativitySome of us will go to an art gallery this weekend. Maybe it will help us reflect or inspire us. Isn’t that part of a life well lived? And if you don’t go to a gallery, maybe you’ll find yourself lingering on a picture at home, reading a novel, going to the theatre or listening to music. But what if you didn’t? What if there were no galleries, theatres, publishers or co
  
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• Norfolk woman refuses to hand over 16th-century Italian painting identified as stolen

  10-03-2025 13:30
  
  Exclusive: Barbara De Dozsa’s husband bought Madonna and Child by Antonio Solario in 1973 after it was stolen from a museumA 16th-century Madonna and Child painting disappeared without a trace after it was stolen from a museum in northern Italy more than half a century ago.Now, having surfaced in Britain, it is in the possession of a woman in Norfolk, who is refusing to return it – even though it is listed on police stolen art databases. Continue reading...
  
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• The Wonder Way review – artists grapple with the outdoors in study of beautiful chaos

  10-03-2025 12:00
  
  Emmanuelle Antille’s diffuse film begins with her grandmother’s passion for her garden before exploring a range of artists reimagining landscapeThis dense yet maddingly diffuse work by Swiss documentary maker Emmanuelle Antille starts with the director reflecting on her late grandmother’s intense devotion to her suburban garden, of which she made more than a thousand drawings. From this, Antille builds out an ambition to explore a number of outdoor spaces framed by extraordinar
  
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• ‘Just be radical’: the feminist artist giving Matisse a modern punk twist

  10-03-2025 09:00
  
  In her irreverent new exhibition, Sylvie Fleury is pairing the great modernist’s drawings and cutouts with her own fashion-focused workWhen Henri Matisse described his work as “in step with the future”, he was thinking about his revolutionary cutouts, made with collaged coloured paper, rather than, say, the evolution of the women’s movement or consumer culture. The leading Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury came of age with the latter, but when she was invited to select draw
  
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