A visit to Banksy’s Dismaland will slap you in the face with the sickly realities now hard-wired into daily experience
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More than two decades after it first opened Tate’s new extension is set to offer more space for the inspirational work of the St Ives artists.
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Three art galleries on England’s south-eastern coast are lighting up summer with a series of exhibitions featuring LS Lowry, Bridget Riley and William Gear.
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Amidst a global tour marking his 70th birthday, Sean Scully’s Dublin homecoming is a special moment – the first living artist to have a major solo exhibition in the National Gallery of Ireland.
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New York’s 9/11 Memorial Museum on the site of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center is a tough visit.
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Dramatic headlines as world record prices are paid in New York for both a single painting and a single sculpture.
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New York’s latest gallery – the $422 million Whitney Museum of American Art – will set the pace in the Big Apple with its edgy downtown location, bold design and adventurous programming.
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Impactful, courageous and a design triumph. The new National Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta lays claim to the city’s pivotal role in the dramatic events of the 1960s – and broadens its remit to the universal theme of human rights around the globe.
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Visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic Site in Atlanta, Georgia, for a lesson in how the power of place, story, objects, thought and feeling combine to deepen meaning and to inspire present and future action.
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Almost 5000 museum professionals have gathered in Atlanta for the world’s largest annual museums conference – the overarching theme is The Social Value Of Museums: Inspiring Change.