As a subscriber, additionally, you will get live reports from leading art festivals and events, such because the Venice Biennale, plus particular offers from The Art Newspaper. The artist is presenting solo exhibitions on the MCA Chicago and the X Museum in Beijing. Defining historic art is challenging—and weighing an ancient artist’s sophistication is even more fraught, says Margaret Conkey, an emerita professor on the University of California, Berkeley, and an authority on prehistoric cave art. To be even more convincing, she says, future work should focus on explicitly connecting the dating and images with the presence of Neanderthals, whose…
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