In a letter from Pete Best to his mother, he recalls how he, Lennon and McCartney felt like stars boarding their plane, having been interviewed by a member of the press about them being voted Liverpool's number one band.
"The blending of pre-Columbian cultural and religious traditions with four centuries of Spanish colonial influence formed the basis of what we come to understand as alchemy in this region, one rooted in deep spirituality of transformation that has endured over time."
The exhibition establishes a dialogue between contemporary research and historical experimental practices, integrating panels from the Venice installation with works from the collection, highlighting radical proposals from the 1960s and 1970s.
Against an impenetrable black ground, the crucified figure looms pale and shining. There's almost no colour, beyond the trickle of blood on Christ's feet from the nails driven through his flesh.
Giles Duley's 'Distortion/Memory/Resilience/' invites the public into a penthouse at Sutton Tower to view his exploration of the human cost of war, running from May 12-24.
Forum Florum unfolds across SIAM's courtyard and two historic interior rooms, with the Flower Journey installation opening the sequence. The monumental portal traces the global history of the cut flower industry, an extractive trade that scaled from 19th-century Dutch greenhouse cultivation into today's Kenyan and Colombian export agriculture.
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition is essentially an immersive type show that will offer highly detailed, massive scale looks at the 34 frescoes that make up the chapel's ceiling and collectively tell the story of Genesis.
Paulo Nimer Pjota describes his artistic process as akin to a hip-hop producer, sampling imagery and motifs from diverse sources, including ancient civilizations and Brazilian folklore.
The Turner Prize jury is chaired by the Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, who says: 'This year's selection presents a rich and diverse range of work, spanning installation and performance, and with a strong emphasis on sculptural practice.'
The exhibition traces both this historical development and the ways in which designers have repeatedly reinterpreted these tools. Some pieces prioritise function; others verge on the sculptural, testing how far the familiar forms of knife, fork and spoon can be pushed before usability is compromised.
The maps created by Ursula K. Le Guin include traditional elements like compass roses and mountains, but also feature mythic symbols and instructions for depicting fantastical creatures.
The exhibition, entitled Forget Me Not: South Lebanon in Memory and Motion, took place earlier this month, as this largely rural part of the Levant became a front in the US and Israeli war against Iran.
Homes of Haor by Joy Saha documents the vernacular architecture of Ashtagram, Kishoreganj, in Bangladesh's Haor region. Homes are built on naturally raised mounds that become islands during the monsoon, surrounded by seasonal floodwater.
Among the sketches on display are two tentative pencil drawings for scenes that never made it into the finished 1926 book. Shepard's published drawings are so deeply embedded in the cultural imagination that it's easy to forget they were once the product of trial and revision.
Vega created the iconic logo for the band and put it on scores of t-shirts and whatever else he could think of. The show includes not only the tees but ashtrays, thongs, baby shoes, dolls, baseball bats, keychains, surfboards, skateboards, buttons, belt buckles you get the idea!
"Technology is both the remedy and the poison," artist Cao Fei quotes Bernard Stiegler, emphasizing the complex relationship between technological advancements and their impact on human practices.
"The name is a paradox. They never functioned as a collective," says Kaat Debo, MoMu's director. "Some of them still describe that label as a blessing and a curse. But they were friends."
George Costakis spent three decades hunting down, and saving, thousands of Russian and Soviet avant-garde works of art-at a time when they were hidden, vilified by the state and at risk of disappearing into history.
