The beautiful game: revived art prize gives football its creative due once more | Emma John

Football and the art world have long remained distant but the breadth of entries for this year’s award revivals a healthy revival It may be the Beautiful Game, but in its early decades football was a rare subject for artists. The Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni whirled an…

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