Jeremy Deller does the 80s and Leonardo's only sculpture – the week in art
Deller winds back the years, Sorolla celebrates Seville’s garden, and Mike Nelson shows off his Borgesian wizardry – all in our weekly dispatchMike NelsonArchitecture and storytelling are the stuff of...
View ArticleFight for the Social, the West End’s last bastion of the counter-culture
Fatboy Slim and the Chemical Brothers join efforts to save London venue that gave a platform to musicians and authorsIt is a cornerstone of central London’s cultural landscape and one of the few...
View ArticleJeremy Deller creates 'Farage in Prison' artwork for 'Brexit Day'
One hundred copies of print to go on sale to raise funds to save London music bar from closureJeremy Deller, the Turner prize-winning conceptual artist, has created a print to commemorate “Brexit Day”...
View Article‘So beautiful I cried’: Rachel Whiteread, Jeremy Deller and more on the...
Jeremy Deller unleashed a yacht-throwing colossus and Rachel Whiteread hit the streets with a vacuum cleaner … six leading artists recall representing Britain at the arts extravaganzaAnish Kapoor,...
View ArticleThe Guardian view on the Venice Biennale’s migrant boat: pushing the limits...
Displaying a wreck in which hundreds perished is certainly provocative. But does it really have a place in an exhibition?There is no material so dark that art should not be able to confront it. Art can...
View Article'I was inspired by Kylie': artists Jeremy Deller, Olafur Eliasson and Helen...
Three leading artists explain the new works they’ve created for tomorrow’s magazine (click on each artwork’s title to download a copy) I heard some young activists chanting, “Fuck you, CO2” at the...
View ArticleJeremy Deller on raving: 'Stormzy and Dave give me hope'
As his rave film Everybody in the Place strikes a chord, the Turner prize-winning artist explains why Brexit Britain needs acid houseIn less than a week since it was broadcast on the BBC, Jeremy...
View ArticlePeterloo memorial quietly unveiled three days before anniversary
Monument designed by Jeremy Deller made public despite accessibility concernsCampaigners have accused Manchester city council of a PR own goal after a £1m memorial to the Peterloo massacre was quietly...
View ArticleManchester gets ready for noisy tribute to the dead of Peterloo
3,000 people to join in ‘giant karaoke and autocue’ in memory of 1819 massacreThousands of people are to take part in a huge re-enactment of the Peterloo massacre to mark the 200th anniversary of one...
View ArticleIgnore the sneering: young people’s rage is an age-old sign of failed...
Like the rockers and ravers before them, this generation treats the choices of their elders with alarmIn the documentary Everybody in the Place, the Turner prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller delivers a...
View ArticleThe best art of the 21st century
Steve McQueen in bed, Ai Weiwei in trouble, Pussy Riot in church and Ragnar Kjartansson in the bath – they’re all included in our countdown of the best art since 2000An interview with the creator of...
View ArticleWhy is 2019 so nostalgic for 80s rave?
Once the subject of tabloid moral panics, dance music’s early days are now being celebrated in books and galleries. What can 21st-century Britain learn from the ‘second summer of love’?Modern Toss on...
View ArticleJeremy Deller: ‘Parliament Square was like something from Hogarth’s Britain’
The prize-winning artist on the scenes of protest outside the Commons – and going to the same school as Nigel FarageJeremy Deller makes films, stages historical reenactments and once organised a...
View ArticleGuilt to Zomboat! The unsung TV gems of 2019
A moving rave documentary, a triumphantly twisted crime drama and canal boating with zombies … here are the unmissable shows that may have passed you by• Killing Eve to Game of Thrones: the biggest TV...
View ArticleOff the wall: the enduring impact of the printed poster
The visual history of protest – and promotion – would be nothing without ink and paper A t New York’s recently opened Poster House museum, three exhibits sum up the poster’s impact on life and culture....
View ArticleAntony Gormley and Grayson Perry help design the 'ultimate artists’ activity...
A top team of visual artists – including Gormley, Perry, Jeremy Deller and Gillian Wearing – will this week launch an activity pack full of creative ideas for the coronavirus lockdown• See all our...
View ArticleDavid Shrigley tea towels anyone? Christmas gifts to save the arts
Buy a present designed by your favourite artist, decorate your tree with a Bowie bauble, or get a bottle of gin to drown an orchestra’s sorrows. How to help struggling arts venues with your Christmas...
View ArticleHappy Covid Christmas: stocking fillers to sum up 2020
How better to remember a year in Covid than with a Chris Whitty mug or a Van-Tam T-shirt?Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAt the end of a year like no other, when Covid has...
View ArticleThe Guardian view on memorials for Covid-19: raw events need distance |...
The pandemic must be remembered, but there should be caution and patience about howWhat do communities choose to remember, and what do they choose to forget? The Spanish flu killed 50-100 million...
View ArticleIt’s a pity not everyone can access the memorial to a struggle for equality
The stone mound to the Peterloo massacre invites people to step up to say their piece, but overlooks wheelchair usersIn Manchester, a case of good intentions gone awry. A memorial was built to the...
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