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Articles by subject: art

Outside story (by Editorial Staff, November/December 2009 )
A new exhibition space, The Museum of Everything, features hundreds of works by ‘the untrained, unintentional and unseen creators of our modern world’. New Humanist goes inside
Déjà vu, only worse (by Michail Ryklin, November/December 2009 )
Michail Ryklin sits in on a Russian censorship trial
Terrible beauty (by Roger Davidson, September/October 2009 )
Why is religious art so blood-soaked and morbid asks Roger Davidson
In the burning house (by Michail Ryklin, January/February 2009 )
In 2005 Russian artist Anna Alchuk was publicly vilified and put on trial for her involvement in the Caution:Religion! exhibition. Three years later she drowned herself. Her husband, the philosopher Michail Ryklin, reads her diaries to find out why
All that is solid melts into art (by Daniel Miller, November/December 2008 )
Daniel Miller witnesses the death of a tradition at Sotheby’s
The Ten Commandments (by Martin Rowson, September/October 2008 )
In his new book, New Humanist cartoonist Martin Rowson sums up the history, and future, of the world in one word
Cold flesh (by Owen Hatherley, September/October 2008 )
From interior designer to poet of the grotesque – Owen Hatherley traces the evolution of a tortured artistic humanist
The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism by Geroges Bataille (by Daniel Miller, November/December 2006 )
Daniel Miller says it's all just so surreal
Hopeless romantics (by Lynda Nead, July/August 2006 )
Lynda Nead takes in the National Gallery’'s new show
Right to offend? (by Floris van den Berg, Web Exclusive, March 2008)
As the Virtual Museum of Offensive Art opens online, Floris van den Berg ponders the limits of freedom
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