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World Health Organization joins art world to launch global …

WEBThe World Health Organization and a coalition of cultural partners will next week launch a “call to action” to galvanise the arts in countering the mental health crisis …

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Could the arts be good for your health

WEBThe Lancet medical journal has announced the biggest scientific research project ever conducted exploring the links between health and the arts. Compiled at a …

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‘Mirror pandemic’: art’s vital role in tackling the mental health crisis

WEBA multi-agency $15m initiative backed by the WHO and funded through a series of charity auctions at Christie’s will support artist-led projects to improve mental, …

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New international laboratory aims to study and promote health …

WEBThe Jameel Arts & Health Lab is a collaboration between the World Health Organisation, New York University’s Steinhardt School, the roving art non-profit …

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The global mental health crisis: Wellcome Trust launches …

WEBThe reality of the current crisis depends as much on understanding individual lived experiences as it does analysing scientific data, Kataoka says.

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Art campaign shows the many sides of mental illness

WEBThe Florida-based artist Ian Woods has created layered portraits of mental health advocates. A portrait by Ian Woods of the queer, neurodivergent, Korean …

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Eight US cities receive $1m grants for public art projects tackling

WEBBloomberg Philanthropies has picked projects in Atlanta, Baltimore, Honolulu, Houston, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Salt Lake City as the winners of …

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Pandemic art: how artists have depicted disease

WEBA Cluster of 17 Cases, created by the UK artists’ group Blast Theory after a residency at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, was being installed at …

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Frida Kahlo’s medical records—obtained by her grand …

WEBFor more than a decade, Frida Kahlo wrote letters to Leo Eloesser, a thoracic surgeon who became her trusted medical adviser until her death in 1954. In …

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With art therapy on the rise, France's museums are beginning to …

WEB11 March 2022. Palais de Tokyo’s new pavilion HAMO will open in December with a strong focus on mental health Freaks/Ailleurs Studio. The Palais de Tokyo in Paris will …

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A maritime museum shifts its focus to ocean health

WEBThe Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut is foregrounding ocean ecology in its first contemporary art exhibition, with new commissions by American painter Alexis …

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‘I'm now living in a world where young women have fewer rights …

WEBConceptual artist Jenny Holzer, who has made work about reproductive health and gender issues for years, launched an NFT (non-fungible token) auction on …

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Nan Goldin film on suicide and addiction to be screened in …

WEBThe US photographer and activist Nan Goldin will present her film installation Sisters, Saints, Sibyls (2004–22)—which deals with mental health issues, addiction and …

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As Frieze New York opens, city's art market enters the spotlight

WEBThe chasm between the real world and the art world is perhaps wider than ever, and at Frieze New York, abstraction, neo-Pop and contemporary takes on …

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Brussels doctors prescribe museum visits to treat Covid-19 stress

WEBDoctors at the Brugmann can prescribe museum visits to individual patients and the hospital’s stress clinic will also organise collective visits for in-patients receiving …

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Baltimore Museum of Art acquires LaToya Ruby Frazier installation

WEBLaToya Ruby Frazier. More Than Conquerors: A Monument for Community Health Workers of Baltimore, Maryland 2021-2022, 2022.Installation view at Gladstone …

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Five artists shortlisted to create London’s first ever permanent HIV

WEBAnya Gallaccio and Ryan Gander are among five artists shortlisted to create a permanent HIV/Aids memorial in London more than 40 years after the UK’s first Aids …

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What Johnny Depp did next: a £1,950 self-portrait in aid of mental …

WEBThe self-portrait, Depp’s first, will be sold as a time-limited edition from 20 July for 13 days only (“a number significant to the artist”) and priced from £1,950. As a …

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Kindred spirits: Van Gogh and Matthew Wong come together in …

WEBMatthew Wong’s The Space Between Trees (2019), can be seen as both a tribute to Vincent van Gogh’s The Painter on the Road to Tarascon (1888) and a form of …

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Judge dismisses lawsuit brought by Peter Max’s daughter seeking …

WEBThe most recent decision came in a Manhattan district court on 3 March, when Libra’s lawsuit seeking damages from Lissner due to her alleged conduct, was …

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Jane Fonda and Larry Gagosian work it for the planet

WEBThink of Jane Fonda and some of the Oscar-winning actress’s best films may come to mind, such as Coming Home (and her trailblazing aerobics in the 1980s—and …

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Peter Max saga continues, as his daughter struggles to gain

WEBThings have been hard for Peter Max. Once the kind of crossover star whose psychedelic canvases propelled him to levels of fame usually reserved for movie stars …

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