Chuck anything into the rarefied light of a white-walled gallery and that “thing” becomes art. This is not a new idea. More than a century on from Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917), it’s a necessary ...

Is the pranksy artist’s latest show a worrying comment about Britain’s discarded rope problem – or a joke at the expense of the buy-anything art world? How long is a piece of string? David Shrigley ...

Ropes are generally useful things to have around, not least because the best of them tend not to stretch under tension. The ancient Egyptians can attest to that and thoughtfully left pictures on the ...

Money—£1m plus VAT, to be precise—for old rope is the premise for David Shrigley’s latest exhibition, which opens at Stephen Friedman gallery in London tomorrow (14 November). Over the past eight ...

You can see lots of weird and wonderful things when visiting an art gallery... but what about a pile of old rope? Turner Prize-nominated artist David Shrigley has put together an exhibition with just ...

Expats partake in an immersive cultural experience event in Longkou city, Shandong province. [Photo by Xie Hongyu for chinadaily.com.cn] Longkou city in Shandong province, recently invited 23 expats ...