{"id":1548,"date":"2015-06-05T19:17:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyeplug.net\/magazine\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2011-03-25T17:31:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:31:04","slug":"exhibition-newsfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eyeplug.net\/magazine\/exhibition-newsfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibitions Newsfeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"rssclass\"><li>9 August: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/aug\/09\/beatles-paul-mccartney-photos-early-60s-show-london\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Early Beatles photos by Paul McCartney to go on show in London\">Early Beatles photos by Paul McCartney to go on show in London<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Portraits taken in early 60s reveal intimate moments before band\u2019s fame became all-consuming<\/p><p>A collection of photographs taken by Paul McCartney when the Beatles were on the brink of global stardom are to be shown in an exhibition that sheds light on intimate moments as the group first experienced fame.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/gagosian.com\/exhibitions\/2025\/paul-mccartney-rearview-mirror-liverpool-london-paris\/\">Rearview Mirror: Liverpool-London-Paris<\/a>, which opens at Gagosian in London on 28 August, features 18 shots taken by the singer-songwriter during late 1963 after the release of the Beatles\u2019 first album, and early 1964 as they travelled to the US.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/aug\/09\/beatles-paul-mccartney-photos-early-60s-show-london\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>9 August: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/09\/paris-exhibition-saved-treasures-of-gaza\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018Restoring humanity\u2019: Paris exhibition showcases 5,000 years of history in Gaza\">\u2018Restoring humanity\u2019: Paris exhibition showcases 5,000 years of history in Gaza<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Saved Treasures of Gaza aims to preserve territory\u2019s historical identity against backdrop of war and famine<\/p><p>An exhibition tracing more than 5,000 years of cultural and archaeological history in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gaza\">Gaza<\/a> has become a summer hit in Paris, as visitors flock to discover the heritage of this strip of land along the Mediterranean, whose multilayered past has been eclipsed by modern tragedy.<\/p><p>While Gaza faces a humanitarian catastrophe of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/02\/gaza-famine-starvation-crisis-israel\">starvation and war<\/a>, the exhibition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imarabe.org\/fr\/agenda\/expositions-musee\/tresors-sauves-gaza-5000-ans-histoire\">Saved Treasures of Gaza<\/a>, at Paris\u2019s Institut du Monde Arabe brings what curators called a sense of \u201curgency\u201d to explain the rich history of a place that has been a crossroads of cultures since Neolithic times.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/09\/paris-exhibition-saved-treasures-of-gaza\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>8 August: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/aug\/08\/millet-angelus-wael-shawky-aubrey-levinthal-the-week-in-art\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Gems from Paris, sofas from Philadelphia and cinema from puppets \u2013 the week in art\">Gems from Paris, sofas from Philadelphia and cinema from puppets \u2013 the week in art<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Millet\u2019s iconic Angelus visits the UK, Philly shows its subtle side, while east and west face off in a puppet retelling of history \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2015\/oct\/19\/sign-up-to-the-art-weekly-email\">all in your weekly dispatch<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Millet: Life on the Land<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>The Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay has lent Millet\u2019s iconic Angelus for this journey to the dark side of the landscape.<br>\n \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/exhibitions\/millet-life-on-the-land\">National Gallery, London<\/a>, until 19 October<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/aug\/08\/millet-angelus-wael-shawky-aubrey-levinthal-the-week-in-art\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>8 August: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2025\/aug\/08\/midwestern-nights-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018Monuments of a disappearing past\u2019: moody midwestern nights \u2013 in pictures\">\u2018Monuments of a disappearing past\u2019: moody midwestern nights \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>A new exhibition highlights three Illinois photographers whose work captures the after-dark life of midwest cities and towns. Robin Bailey, Jim Hill and Dave Jordano capture unusually compelling contrasts and independent businesses that have survived decades of change, from Michigan to Ohio. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.photography.org\/events\/exhibition-midwestern-nights-photographs-by-robin-bailey-jim-hill-and-dave-jordano\">Midwestern Nights<\/a> is on display at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, until 8 September<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2025\/aug\/08\/midwestern-nights-in-pictures\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>8 August: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2025\/aug\/08\/reconciliation-in-focus-from-cortona-on-the-move-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Reconciliation in focus: from Cortona on the Move \u2013 in pictures\">Reconciliation in focus: from Cortona on the Move \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>In a world beset with conflict, the 15th edition of Cortona on the Move photo festival focuses on reconciliation \u2013 personal, social and political. Exhibitions are spread across the ancient Tuscan hilltop town, featuring 76 artists from around the world. Come Together<em> <\/em>runs until 2 November<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2025\/aug\/08\/reconciliation-in-focus-from-cortona-on-the-move-in-pictures\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>7 August: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/aug\/07\/stanley-donwood-interview-radiohead-thom-yorke-art-oxford\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018We\u2019ve got a lot less competitive\u2019: Stanley Donwood on creating Radiohead\u2019s iconic artwork\">\u2018We\u2019ve got a lot less competitive\u2019: Stanley Donwood on creating Radiohead\u2019s iconic artwork<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>The artist has been collaborating with the rock group\u2019s frontman Thom Yorke on their distinctive visuals since the mid-90s. As a retrospective opens in Oxford, he looks back on three decades with the band<\/p><p>In the early 90s, Stanley Donwood was \u201cat a loose end after university\u201d, hitching around Britain and making a\u00a0little money as a busking fire-breather. Fetching up in Oxford, he spotted a poster for a gig by\u00a0a band called On a Friday. He recognised the name: a friend he\u2019d met while studying at Exeter University\u2019s fine art department called Thom Yorke was the lead singer.<\/p><p>So he called Yorke up. An initial plan for Donwood to do his fire-breathing routine as the band\u2019s support act was scuppered by the venue\u2019s nervous manager, but the pair kept in touch. Some time later, after On a Friday had changed their name to Radiohead, Yorke called with a proposition. \u201cThey\u2019d done really well with Creep, which I hadn\u2019t heard, it wasn\u2019t my thing at all; I liked bleepy-bleepy, thumpy-thump music,\u201d says Donwood. \u201cBut he said: \u2018Our record sleeves are shit, do you want to come and have a go?\u2019\u201d<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/aug\/07\/stanley-donwood-interview-radiohead-thom-yorke-art-oxford\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>7 August: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2025\/aug\/07\/wild-swimming-and-tiktok-dances-hiroshima-today-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wild swimming and TikTok dances: Hiroshima today \u2013 in pictures\">Wild swimming and TikTok dances: Hiroshima today \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Aya Fujioka set out to shake the weight of history from her home city and capture her own relationship with it. But she couldn\u2019t help picking up echoes from the past \u2026<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2025\/aug\/07\/wild-swimming-and-tiktok-dances-hiroshima-today-in-pictures\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>6 August: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/aug\/06\/does-jeremy-corbyn-know-his-potatoes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Does Jeremy Corbyn know his potatoes? | Brief letters\">Does Jeremy Corbyn know his potatoes? | Brief letters<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Allotments | YouTube at primary school | Universities and \u2018racist science\u2019 | Millet\u2019s potato fork | Gaza and Hiroshima<\/p><p>\u201cIs this government going to put the nail in the coffin of the joy of digging ground for potatoes on a cold, wet February Sunday afternoon?\u201d Jeremy Corbyn wrote in the Daily Telegraph (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/aug\/05\/jeremy-corbyn-council-asset-sales-allotments\">Jeremy Corbyn warns rules on council asset sales threaten allotments, 5 August<\/a>). Never trust a man who can\u2019t tell his parsnips from his potatoes: leaving spuds in the ground till February means they\u2019ll have been spoiled by frost or rot. And I say this as a lifelong Labour voter.<br><strong>Dariel Francis<\/strong><br><em>Tunbridge Wells, Kent<\/em><\/p><p>\u2022 A key point not covered in your article (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/30\/youtube-tv-destination-children-ofcom-survey\">YouTube most popular first TV destination for children, Ofcom finds, 30 July<\/a>)<strong> <\/strong>is the extent to which schools, particularly primaries, use YouTube, from movement breaks to educational programmes and quiet-time cartoons before home time.<br><strong>Cat Mehta<\/strong> <br><em>Weybridge, Surrey<\/em><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/aug\/06\/does-jeremy-corbyn-know-his-potatoes\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>5 August: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/aug\/05\/millet-life-on-the-land-review-national-gallery-london\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Millet: Life on the Land review \u2013 phallic forks and suggestive wheelbarrows enliven a landscape of toil\">Millet: Life on the Land review \u2013 phallic forks and suggestive wheelbarrows enliven a landscape of toil<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p><strong>National Gallery, London<\/strong><br>There\u2019s a undeniably erotic charge to Millet\u2019s paintings of gloomy hard work \u2013 reminding us that, behind the hoes, these are real people with real desires<\/p><p>The figures in Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Millet\u2019s 1859 painting The Angelus, a French icon that\u2019s come to the UK on loan from the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay in Paris, seem extremely odd on close inspection. Their faces are obscure, their bodies intriguing under their shapeless work clothes. What age are they? How are they related? The man is quite young, his top shirt button loose, although his legs are as stiff as a doll\u2019s, inside thick, rough-cut trousers. It\u2019s harder to tell the woman\u2019s age because she stands in profile, a breeze pressing her heavy skirt against her legs, as she clasps her hands. They might be a married couple or, as this painting\u2019s unlikely fan Salvador Dal\u00ed claimed, mother and son. Their physicality is intense. The phallic prongs of a thick wooden potato fork and wheelbarrow shafts add to the feeling that, now the working day is done and they\u2019re saying their prayers, they can finally get to bed. But if they\u2019re mother and son? I refer you to Dr Dal\u00ed.<\/p><p>I think there\u2019s a reason <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/jul\/17\/angelus-millet-life-on-the-land-national-gallery-london-modern-art\">Millet makes The Angelus not so much a religious as an erotic landscape<\/a>. It was the climax of his love affair with the French peasantry. Millet made it his life\u2019s work to portray the rural poor \u2013 a class that had been denied full humanity. He depicts lives of backbreaking toil but wants you to see that, behind the hoe, is a human being with a mind, a body, desires.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/aug\/05\/millet-life-on-the-land-review-national-gallery-london\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>5 August: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2025\/aug\/06\/man-ray-and-max-dupain-surrealism-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Man Ray and Max Dupain surrealism \u2013 in pictures\">Man Ray and Max Dupain surrealism \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heide.com.au\/exhibitions\/man-ray-max-dupain\/\">Heide Museum of Modern Art<\/a> in Melbourne is showing its first joint exhibition exploring the surrealist photography of Man Ray and Max Dupain. Heide\u2019s director and curator Lesley Harding has written captions explaining the works. It\u2019s on show until 9 November<\/p><ul><li><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2017\/feb\/08\/artists-respond-to-max-dupains-sunbaker-photograph-in-pictures?page=with:img-13\">Max Dupain\u2019s Sunbaker: Australian artists respond to celebrated photograph \u2013 in pictures<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ul><p><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2025\/aug\/06\/man-ray-and-max-dupain-surrealism-in-pictures\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>5 August: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/aug\/05\/untitled-america-whitney-exhibit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018Constantly being reimagined\u2019: celebrating American art from the 1900s to the 1980s\">\u2018Constantly being reimagined\u2019: celebrating American art from the 1900s to the 1980s<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>A new exhibition at the Whitney looks back at a varied selection of works that tell the story of America across eight tumultuous decades<\/p><p>With \u201cUntitled\u201d (America), The Whitney celebrates 10 years in its new space and offers visitors a statement on what the museum is all about. Combing the institution\u2019s archives, it brings together 80 years of American art, from the turn of the century up through the 1980s.<\/p><p>As art historian and Whitney chief curator, Kim Conaty, was hard at work curating \u201cUntitled\u201d (America), she envisioned the Whitney as a place of refuge and nourishment for artists who have furnished new ways of seeing and new historical narratives. \u201cWhen I think of the very brave work of artists over decades,\u201d she said via video interview. \u201cI\u2019m excited by how it\u2019s possible for us now through their work to see the questions they have put forth, the histories they have made visible. We need to give our support to those artists who have done that hard thinking and helped reveal or made visible our history and helped us see new futures.\u201d<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/aug\/05\/untitled-america-whitney-exhibit\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>3 August: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/gallery\/2025\/aug\/03\/peter-kennard-gaza-exhibition-edinburgh-palestine-musuem-scotland-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Peter Kennard\u2019s Gaza exhibition in Edinburgh \u2013 in pictures\">Peter Kennard\u2019s Gaza exhibition in Edinburgh \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>An exhibition of graphic work by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/article\/2024\/jul\/24\/peter-kennard-whitechapel-gallery-retrospective-protest-resistance-dissent\">Peter Kennard<\/a> is opening at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinemuseum.us\/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAadLy4aaS5oJiKsaGZC5LStCRWRUnN-MH-Dl9COFFPcJUgp1kDU9qci33VT8NA_aem_A0WQDWD7KDuA-vbAM4RKhA\">Palestine Museum Scotland<\/a> to run daily from 9 to 31 August, concurrent with the Edinburgh festival. \u2018Gaza\u2019 showcases prints made using a variety of media including photomontage, double-exposed photographs, drawing and paint, in response to the daily reports and footage of the near-erasure of Gaza and the thousands of Palestinians killed. The exhibition also includes earlier work repurposed for the show<\/p><ul><li><p>Gaza is at Palestine Museum Scotland, 13A Dundas Street, 9-31 August<\/p><\/li><\/ul><p><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/gallery\/2025\/aug\/03\/peter-kennard-gaza-exhibition-edinburgh-palestine-musuem-scotland-in-pictures\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>1 August: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/aug\/01\/dellers-welsh-visions-rollicking-rubens-and-an-edinburgh-extravaganza-the-week-in-art\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Deller\u2019s Welsh visions, rollicking Rubens and an Edinburgh extravaganza \u2013 the week in art\">Deller\u2019s Welsh visions, rollicking Rubens and an Edinburgh extravaganza \u2013 the week in art<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Linder headlines the UK\u2019s largest festival of visual art, Jeremy Deller delves into Welsh history and graffiti queen Lady Pink scares Keith Haring \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2015\/oct\/19\/sign-up-to-the-art-weekly-email\">all in your weekly dispatch<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Edinburgh art festival<br><\/strong>Artists from Linder to Mike Nelson provide the fun in this hugely varied city-wide extravaganza.<br>\n \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghartfestival.com\/\">Various Edinburgh venues,<\/a> 7-24 August<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/aug\/01\/dellers-welsh-visions-rollicking-rubens-and-an-edinburgh-extravaganza-the-week-in-art\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>31 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/jul\/31\/architects-solomons-temple-god-adam-pablo-bronstein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018A cipher for crazy self-projection\u2019: why are architects so obsessed with Solomon\u2019s Temple?\">\u2018A cipher for crazy self-projection\u2019: why are architects so obsessed with Solomon\u2019s Temple?<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>The palatial edifice, believed to have stood where God created Adam, has fired imaginations for two millennia. Now artist Pablo Bronstein has created wild mashups, complete with blue-bearded gargoyles, suggesting how it looked<\/p><p>No legendary building has ever inspired more conjecture about what it might have looked like than <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solomon%27s_Temple\">Solomon\u2019s Temple<\/a> in Jerusalem. It is said to have been built in c.950BC, on the mound where God created Adam, and was destroyed 400 years later by marauding Babylonians. But, beyond some inconsistent descriptions in the Bible written centuries after the temple was razed, there is no archaeological evidence that this palatial edifice ever existed.<\/p><p>And yet, for more than two millennia, generations of architects, archaeologists and ideologues have bickered over the building\u2019s appearance. They have debated its exact height and width, speculated on the design of its columns, and battled over the precise nature of its porch. The mythic building, also known as the First Temple, has inspired everything from a Renaissance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/30\/san-lorenzo-de-el-escorial-monastery-spain-open-up-secret-spaces-after-revamp\">royal palace in Spain<\/a> to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/oct\/01\/brazil-evangelicals-politics-presidential-election\">recent megachurch in Brazil<\/a>, to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freemason.com\/king-solomon-temple-freemasonry\/\">interiors of masonic lodges around the world<\/a> \u2013 all built on a fantasy.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/jul\/31\/architects-solomons-temple-god-adam-pablo-bronstein\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>31 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2025\/jul\/31\/royal-photographic-society-international-photography-exhibition\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Royal Photographic Society\u2019s international photography exhibition\">The Royal Photographic Society\u2019s international photography exhibition<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>The artists for the 166th edition of the Royal Photographic Society\u2019s international photography exhibition, the world\u2019s longest-running photography exhibition, have been announced. The works will be on display at London\u2019s Saatchi Gallery from 5 August to 18 September 2025<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2025\/jul\/31\/royal-photographic-society-international-photography-exhibition\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>30 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/jul\/30\/casa-susanna-cross-dressing-catskills\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Casa Susanna: inside a secret and empowering cross-dressing community in the 1960s\">Casa Susanna: inside a secret and empowering cross-dressing community in the 1960s<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>A treasure trove of flea market photos spotted in 2004 show how some found liberation in the Catskillls at a tough time<\/p><p>A new show at the Met demonstrates the enduring power of photography to affirm trans identities and build trans communities. Titled simply Casa Susanna, it reveals a treasure trove of photographs made by a community of self-identified \u201ccross-dressers\u201d in the 1960s, as they found ways to make precious time to dress as their feminine selves in two resorts offering safe spaces in the Catskill mountains.<\/p><p>According to show curator Mia Fineman, these photos had sat dormant for decades until two antique dealers happened to discover them at a flea market in 2004. \u201cWhat struck them was that they were men dressed in women\u2019s clothing but not in drag,\u201d said Fineman. \u201cThey were not wearing flamboyant clothing, it was a very conservative, midcentury style.\u201d<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/jul\/30\/casa-susanna-cross-dressing-catskills\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>29 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/jul\/29\/stanley-donwood-thom-yorke-this-is-what-you-get-review-radiohead-ashmolean-museum\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018A succession of bad paintings\u2019: Stanley Donwood and Radiohead\u2019s Thom Yorke \u2013 review\">\u2018A succession of bad paintings\u2019: Stanley Donwood and Radiohead\u2019s Thom Yorke \u2013 review<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p><strong>Ashmolean Museum, Oxford<\/strong><br>This Is What You Get explores the intense creative partnership behind countless album sleeves from OK Computer to In Rainbows. But is it good art? Absolutely not<\/p><p>For decades, Radiohead\u2019s Thom Yorke and the artist Stanley Donwood have been locked in an intense creative partnership. They scribble over each other\u2019s drawings, scrawl in each other\u2019s notebooks, push each other, inspire each other. Their work has been on every Radiohead album cover since 1995\u2019s The Bends, every Yorke solo record, every poster and every T-shirt. Nothing is farmed out to designers or agencies \u2013 Radiohead\u2019s visual identity has been fully overseen by Donwood and Yorke.<\/p><p>And now, in a homecoming of sorts for local hero Yorke, their artistic output is being celebrated at Oxford\u2019s Ashmolean Museum. There\u2019s no doubt that Donwood and Yorke, who met while studying at the University of Exeter, have created some of the most recognisable, ubiquitous and maybe even iconic album covers of their generation. But do they make sense in a huge, historic gallery such as the Ashmolean? Does any of it make for good art? Does it stand up to scrutiny when removed from the context of the records and merchandise it was designed for? It\u2019s a nice dream, but nope.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/jul\/29\/stanley-donwood-thom-yorke-this-is-what-you-get-review-radiohead-ashmolean-museum\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>29 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/jul\/30\/a-sidney-nolan-above-the-sofa-inside-artbank-the-collection-that-lets-you-rent-a-masterpiece\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"A Sidney Nolan above the sofa? Inside Artbank, the collection that lets you rent a masterpiece\">A Sidney Nolan above the sofa? Inside Artbank, the collection that lets you rent a masterpiece<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>This public collection supports living artists while bringing their work into the homes and workplaces of Australians<\/p><ul><li><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ul><p>We\u2019re familiar with borrowing books from a library or renting a car, a carpet cleaner or a suit, but have you ever considered loaning an artwork? A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artbank.gov.au\/search\/profile\/68\">Sidney Nolan<\/a>, perhaps? An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artbank.gov.au\/search\/profile\/7997\">Emily Kam Kngwarray<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artbank.gov.au\/search\/profile\/9547\">Patricia Piccinini<\/a>? Or maybe something from an up-and-coming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artbank.gov.au\/search\/profile\/16644\">video artist<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artbank.gov.au\/search\/profile\/15060\">photographer<\/a>? A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artbank.gov.au\/search\/profile\/13913\">neon text-based work<\/a>? Or something more hard-hitting, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artbank.gov.au\/search\/profile\/16886\">a series of paintings on discarded aerial maps that symbolically reclaims country from mining companies<\/a>?<\/p><p>Should any of these pique your interest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artbank.gov.au\/\">Artbank<\/a> has you covered. The government-owned collection is composed of more than 11,000 works of art available for loan by individuals and businesses, starting from as little as $165 for a year and capping at $11,000.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/jul\/30\/a-sidney-nolan-above-the-sofa-inside-artbank-the-collection-that-lets-you-rent-a-masterpiece\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>29 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2025\/jul\/29\/porn-sets-wild-dogs-knitting-30-years-yancey-richardson-gallery\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Porn sets, wild dogs and knitting: 30 years of Yancey Richardson gallery \u2013 in pictures\">Porn sets, wild dogs and knitting: 30 years of Yancey Richardson gallery \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>From Mitch Epstein\u2019s early colour experiments to Ori Gersht smashing glass prints of iconic paintings, these images celebrate three decades of the New York gallery<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2025\/jul\/29\/porn-sets-wild-dogs-knitting-30-years-yancey-richardson-gallery\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>25 July: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/jul\/25\/artists-the-week-in-art-tate\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pastoral play, AI portraits and a radical utopia for kids \u2013 the week in art\">Pastoral play, AI portraits and a radical utopia for kids \u2013 the week in art<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>A countryside conceptualist takes root in Edinburgh, digital artists explore beauty in the age of AI and Monster Chetwynd takes on this summer\u2019s Tate Play installation \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2015\/oct\/19\/sign-up-to-the-art-weekly-email\">all in your weekly dispatch<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Andy Goldsworthy<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>Captivating retrospective of this countryside conceptualist who makes art with substances including sheep fleece, fern leaves, barbed wire and hare\u2019s blood. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/jul\/24\/andy-goldsworthy-fifty-years-review-a-wild-walk-between-life-death-and-sheep-shearing\">Read the review<\/a>. <br>\n \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgalleries.org\/exhibition\/andy-goldsworthy-fifty-years\">Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh<\/a>, 26 July to 2 November<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/jul\/25\/artists-the-week-in-art-tate\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p id=\"bte_opp\"><small>Originally posted 2011-02-25 17:28:49. 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