The Week


Egypt hopes new museum will lure tourists

A chariot and funeral bed belonging to ancient Egypt’s boy-king Tutankhamun were safely moved on Tuesday across Cairo to a new museum that Egypt hopes will lure back wary tourists. Just beyond the Great ...

May 28, 2017, Sunday


Expo makes death less morbid for kids

COFFINS decked out with board games, gravesites doubling as vegetable patches or children’s toy “funeral building bricks” complete with a hearse and crematorium — just some of the latest trends for dealing ...

May 28, 2017, Sunday


Exhibition where you make your own show

A new digital interactive exhibition in Beijing allows visitors to create their own art and see it immediately reflected in the work being displayed around them. The project, “Living Digital Forest and ...

May 28, 2017, Sunday


‘Beauty doesn’t have to be pretty’: iconic designer Kawakubo honored

TWISTS, knots, curls and folds: the fantastical, boundary-pushing creations of legendary designer Rei Kawakubo explore the space where fashion ends and art begins. The Japanese designer, who founded ...

May 7, 2017, Sunday


Xintiandi Festival features Turkish marbling

SHANGHAI art lovers will soon have the opportunity to see Turkish artist Garip Ay’s recreation of Van Gogh’s painting on the surface of water during the 2017 Xintiandi Festival from May 25 to June 3. A ...

May 7, 2017, Sunday


‘Massacre’ nightclub to become museum

THE Pulse nightclub in Florida, where 49 people died in an attack last year by a gunman who swore fealty to the Islamic State group, is to become a museum, its owner has announced. A landmark for the ...

May 7, 2017, Sunday


Handmade works depict imagination

FRENCH artist Lilian Daubisse is bringing his unbridled imagination to Shanghai by creating the 2017 Spring window installations at the Maison Hermes on Huaihai Road M. The artist is best known for his ...

April 2, 2017, Sunday


Art of ‘sitting on eggs until they hatch’

THE French artist who spent a week entombed inside a rock began an even more bizarre feat on Wednesday — sitting on a dozen eggs until they hatch. Abraham Poincheval aims to become a “human hen” by sitting ...

April 2, 2017, Sunday


A glimpse into history of selfies

FROM Old Masters’ self-portraits to contemporary selfies taken on phones, a London exhibition explores the creative potential of a mode of expression whose modern form is often derided as inane. The ...

April 2, 2017, Sunday


Exhibition turns idea of ‘home’ inside out

A giant kitchen grater with menacing blades, an ironing board festooned with penises and Marcel Duchamp’s repurposed urinal greet visitors to the Israel Museum’s new show “No Place Like Home.” The exhibition ...

March 5, 2017, Sunday




 

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