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Why are the Royal College of Art’s staff on strike?

“Single Mother with Father Out of the Picture” (2007–2008)

Noah Davis’ poignant paintings depict the everyday lives of Black Americans

Nadine Ijewere, Our Own Selves (2021)

Nadine Ijewere is the photographer reframing exclusory notions of beauty

Frida Kahlo: The Complete Paintings

Art & PhotographyDive into Frida Kahlo’s unseen, most intimate works of artFrida Kahlo: The Complete Paintings allows readers a privileged glimpse into the private world of the legendary artist, in the most comprehensive collection of her works yet

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Dazed print sale to raise money for homeless youth

NewsDazed has launched a print sale to raise money for homeless youth

Get your hands on works by Rankin, Willy Vanderperre, Harley Weir, Martin Parr, Virgil Abloh, Elsa Rouy, and more

Banksy, Love is in the Bin (2018)

NewsBanksy’s self-destructing artwork breaks records in £18.6 million sale

If Love is in the Bin was supposed to poke fun at the art market, then the art market had the last laugh

Egon Schiele, Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait), 1910

NewsVienna museums launch a NSFW OnlyFans to display nude artworks

The Austrian capital’s tourism board is pushing back against censorship of art on other social media platforms

GK Lewis for Zegna

FashionZegna Unrestricted

Zegna’s new fragrance series XXX - Pronounced ‘Triple Stitch’ - is all about doing things differently, as the revered Italian house presents a trifecta of scents that go against everything that came before.

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Honor Titus, “Self-Portrait” (2021)

Q+AHonor Titus’ paintings celebrate the elegant pageantry of athletics

We talk to the rising art-world star and former punk band frontman about the romance and rituals of sporting life

David Shrigley x Ruinart Unconventional Bubbles

NewsDavid Shrigley brings worms and champagne to Frieze

At the art fair’s Ruinart bar, Shrigley’s Unconventional Bubbles installation addresses the post-pandemic world and climate crisis, delivered in his typically down-to-earth style

John Giorno behind the scenes of Dial-A-Poem, MoMA (1970)

NewsArtist and poet John Giorno’s iconic Dial-A-Poem project arrives in the UK

Callers can dial in to hear work by Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Burroughs, Debbie Harry, and many more

CIRCA - AI WEIWEI SIGNING PRINT

NewsHere’s how you can win a signed Ai Weiwei print worth £5k

All you have to do is respond to digital arts platform Circa’s question: ‘Where do we go from now?’

Dazed+Labs at Dazed Live, Ashleigh Ramel 1

NewsSee the spirited DIY zine created by students at Dazed Live

Photographer and Dazed+Labs curator Eddie OTCHERE hosted two days of workshops, working with 10 fledgling artists to shoot, style, and direct a visual documentation of the weekend

AZEEMA issue 1

Lists21 essential independent magazines to bag at Dazed Newsagents

From grassroots arts zines based in NYC to publications elevating the stories of women in the Middle East, get down to the Dazed Newsagents at Reference Point for a curated selection of the most exciting mags right now

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FeatureNamsa Leuba’s kaleidoscopic photographs explore the politics of the gaze

With the publication of her first monograph, Crossed Looks (Damiani), the Swiss-Guinean photographer brings together five major bodies of work made over the past decade in Guinea, Benin, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tahiti

Hervé Télémaque, “Portrait de Famille” (1962-63)

Q+AEnter the imaginative landscape of non-conformist artist Hervé Télémaque

As a retrospective of his work opens at the Serpentine, we speak to the legendary artist about confronting the spectre of colonialism from the 1950s until the present day

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Arlo parks art therapy

Open CallsHere’s how to get involved in Arlo’s Art Therapy

The musician is launching an Open Call to anyone who finds catharsis through creativity

Converse

Lea Colombo, Colours of My Body (2021)

Lea ColomboLea Colombo’s artwork explores mystical female energy and healing

Colours of My Body, the photographer’s latest exhibition, uses her physical form as a canvas for exploring colour and energy

Arlo Parks art therapy

Open CallsArlo Parks is launching an art therapy project

The musician is on a quest to unleash the healing power of creativity with Arlo’s Art Therapy as part of Dazed and Converse’s Open To Change programme

Converse

Take the Money and Run

DenmarkA Danish artist has taken a museum’s money, ran away, and called it artwork

‘The work of art is that I took their money’

Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Polaroids

Jean-Michel BasquiatGlimpse some rare Basquiat sketches he once gifted to a friend

A book inscribed with private, never-before-exhibited drawings by Basquiat is now on display

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Quil LemonsQuil Lemons makes his museum debut alongside four emerging Black artists

The exhibition, titled INWARD: Reflections on Interiority, examines ‘unseen’ moments during this period of unprecedented change through photos shot exclusively on iPhones

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SQSP x Captain Kris, Wall to Wall (2021)

FeatureMeet the artists behind the murals you’ve seen across London

Watch Wall to Wall – the short film diving into the world of London’s contemporary street art culture and sharing the stories behind a series of new murals by emerging street artists

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RCA UCU

Q+AWhy are the Royal College of Art’s staff on strike?

We talk to the RCA’s branch of the UCU about their campaign for better working conditions and how the ‘unscrupulous’ employment practices of the institution dubbed ‘the Sports Direct of higher education’ are harming us all

Egon Schiele, Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait), 1910

NewsVienna museums launch a NSFW OnlyFans to display nude artworks

The Austrian capital’s tourism board is pushing back against censorship of art on other social media platforms

Banksy, Love is in the Bin (2018)

NewsBanksy’s self-destructing artwork breaks records in £18.6 million sale

If Love is in the Bin was supposed to poke fun at the art market, then the art market had the last laugh