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Who deserves to sit alongside Chagall?

There are many ways to view the lush, colorful, dreamlike and apparently naive art of Marc Chagall, one of the undoubted greats of 20th-century painting. "Marc Chagall and the Russian Avant-garde, from the Collection of the Centre Pompidou" at The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of Arts, makes a brave attempt to set him within the context of his times, something that doesn't quite work ...

Experiments in body art: Crowdsourcing a tattoo

A crowdsourced tattoo could have been a brave art experiment – but did contradictory priorities make this project wide of the mark, asks Kat Austen

Great Works: Jesus Opens the Eyes of a Man born Blind (1311), Duccio di Buoninsegna

You must change your life": the words come from the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and his annunciation is a motto of the modern age. Our eyes are commanded to open. And art itself is the gospel. But it is not only new visions that can hold a turn. There are also very old images, which can show a change from one life to another, and in the more literal way.

Brothers from another planet

Born in Transylvania, twins Gert and Uwe Tobias paint, sculpt and draw with a typewriter. It's bold stuff, says Adrian Searle, and the product of a lifetime of shared obsessions There have been several pairs of twins who make art collaboratively. In the 1980s, the American Starn twins began working together on sophisticated photographic projects. The British artists Jane and Louise Wilson, who ...

How Technology Is Changing Our Brain

How have modern technologies like computers and cell phones changed the brains of young people? What are the benefits and downsides of the newly evolving brain wired on microprocessors and limitless information? We'll explore these issues with a UCLA brain and memory expert.

James and the Giant Peach (Blu-ray)

Recommended The Movie: Henry Selick's follow up to the amazingly successful A Nightmare Before Christmas didn't quite take the world by storm the way the Tim Burton produced exploits of Jack Skellington (who actually does sort of have a cameo in this film if you pay close attention) and company did, but his adaptation of Roald Dahl's James And The Giant Peach is still a pretty impressive work of ...

Response: Though I didn't have his diaries, my biography of Nikolaus Pevsner is still reliable

My sources are legitimate. I've interviewed those who knew him and accessed his archive Rosemary Hill must have good judgment as a historian: she has won a prize for her book on Stonehenge and enjoyed praise for her study of Augustus Pugin. But she doesn't give that impression in her review of my new book Pevsner – The Early Life: Germany and Art ( The adopted Englishman , Review, 10 July). She ...

Nine O'Clock

Debuting on local screens this weekend, this is the not-to-miss film of the decade. For many times now, the writer of these lines has had to swallow a bit of her pride and write about something that she might usually consider as trash.

Autolux | Transit Transit

TBD Records (2010) As much fun as it is to be iconoclastic, it's tough for the art-rockers of today to escape the bones of the past when trying to break new ground.

Anne Frank: The Life, The Book, The Afterlife, By Francine Prose

Can there be anything new to say about Anne Frank? No, and there is nothing really new here. On the other hand, the Anne Frank industry is so huge that there's a lot the ordinary reader doesn't know. This is truer in the US than here: only a quarter of American high school students can identify Hitler, Francine Prose says, whereas more British students can identify Hitler than Oliver Cromwell ...

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