https://vo.rs/tags/art/Recent content in Art on vo.rsHugoenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sun, 14 Apr 2024 17:46:00 +0000https://vo.rs/unravelled/the-sackler-familys-museum-donations-reputation-laundering-as-a-documented-strategy/Sun, 14 Apr 2024 17:46:00 +0000https://vo.rs/unravelled/the-sackler-familys-museum-donations-reputation-laundering-as-a-documented-strategy/https://vo.rs/encore/world-bodypainting-festival/Sat, 15 Jul 2023 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/world-bodypainting-festival/<p>Every July a lake town in the south of Austria fills up with people who have spent eight hours painting on other people, and by evening the results walk out onto a stage under lights: humans turned into reptiles, into galaxies, into cubist portraits, into things with no name at all. This is the World Bodypainting Festival, the largest gathering of its kind on earth and the closest the discipline has to an Olympics. I have never been — Carinthia in July is a long way off my usual loud-and-Nordic beat — so this is a correspondent&rsquo;s read from the record: where the thing came from, how the competition actually runs, and why the human body turns out to be the most demanding canvas an artist can choose.</p>