7 d. ago Artist Rene Matić: 'I'm nominated for the Turner Prize but my gender is up for discussion'

Non-binary artist Rene Matić takes photographs that celebrate their trans friends, and once got a tattoo of a far right slogan they found on Pinterest. Now they’re one of youngest nominees ever for Britain’s prestigious art prize

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7 d. ago ‘Climate change is real’: devastating wildfire photography – in pictures

Artist and photographer Phil Buehler captured some of the worst-hit properties from this year’s Eaton Fire in Altadena, Los Angeles and assembled them for this year’s Spring/Break art show taking place in New York City until 12 May. The exhibit will include a cyclorama with some of the 9/11 calls during the fires playing softly in the background Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Women behind the lens: ‘The dream had a quiet strangeness to it’

Collage artist Tshepiso Moropa uses archive photography to create surreal images that come to her in sleep and last long after she wakesKe Go Beile Leithlo (I’ve Got My Eyes On You) is part of a project called Ditoro, meaning “dreams” in my home language, Setswana. It is a growing body of work exploring archival imagery through the lens of dreams and memory – a space where the past and present blur, where ancestral fragments reappear in unexpected ways and where dreams become portals into untold stories.This piece depicts a dream I had a while back that lingered long after I woke. In the dream, two figures commanded the space: a woman sitting gracefully on a dark leather couch, her white dress billowing around her, with a lace structure rising from her shoulders like wings. She was calm, majestic, almost otherworldly. Beside her stood a tall figure – a man, confident, dressed in white trousers and a flowing blouse, topped with a white hat. An enigmatic guardian or a silent observer....

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1 week ago AP PHOTOS: Artists in this former pasta factory preserve Italian opera traditions

A faded, four-story building that was once a pasta factory now houses the warehouse and bustling workshop of the Rome Opera House. The building is home to a trove of scenic backdrops and 70,000 costumes from over a century of performances.

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1 week ago Artists in this former pasta factory are preserving Italian opera traditions

Behind a rusty gate near Rome’s Circus Maximus is a building passed daily by hordes of tourists

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3 w. ago Vatican in major announcement on UK teen's sainthood following Pope's death

Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old London-born Italian whose body has been preserved for 19 years, was due to receive his sainthood from the late Pope Francis I on April 27

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