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• Great Australian photographs: Max Dupain's Sunbaker – an audio essay

  23-04-2017 23:34
  
  In the first in a new audio-visual series on celebrated Australian photographs, we look at this 1930s image shot on a New South Wales beach Click on the audio buttons to hear the discussion between the Guardian Australia picture editor, Jonny Weeks, the Guardian Australia photographer, Mike Bowers, the senior curator of photography at the National Gallery of Australia, Shaune Lakin, and the curator at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Pippa Milne.It’s possible the iconic version has
  
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• When Irving Penn forced his way into a meeting with Picasso

  23-04-2017 23:00
  Following the promised gift of more than 150 photographs from the Irving Penn Foundation in 2015, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has organised the most comprehensive survey yet assembled of the American photographers work. Irving Penn: Centennial (24 April-30 July) includes more than 200 photographs that chronicle each period of his career, from fashion studies for Vogue magazine to pictures of urban workers to portraits of cultural figures like Picasso. Penn captured this 1957 photo
  
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• Use your loaf: Gavin Turk’s art is mixed with Dub at Brixton Market

  23-04-2017 23:00
  
  Gavin Turk is well known for his love of music, he regularly DJs and famously stood in for Iggy Pop in his Iggy Confidential radio slot on BBC 6 Music a few months ago, filling the programme with a wonderfully eclectic range of sounds. On Saturday (22 April) he was to be found at Lion Vibes reggae record shop in Brixton Market, which is run by his childhood friend Matt Downs. The duo were marking Record Store Day with the release of the LP Use Your Loaf Dub, which had been recorded and produced
  
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• Padraig Mac Miadhachain obituary

  23-04-2017 19:24
  
  My friend the artist Padraig Mac Miadhachain, who has died aged 88, lived most of his life at Swanage on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, and also had a long association with St Ives, Cornwall, where he was a member of the Penwith Society of Arts and maintained a studio for many years.Paddy travelled widely, throughout the US, South America, Europe, north Africa, the middle east and central Asia. These experiences contributed to a vast mental archive of visual images from which he drew the inspirati
  
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• Nazi-looted painting to be auctioned as owners' heirs fail to halt sale

  23-04-2017 13:34
  
  Auction house Im Kinsky accused of moral bankruptcy for sale of Bartholomeus van der Helst work despite ownership disputeA 17th-century Dutch old master painting stolen by the Nazis is to be auctioned in Vienna next week, provoking outrage from the heirs of the owners from whom it was looted who have accused the auction house of moral bankruptcy.Auctioneers at Im Kinsky have not shied away from describing the painting, Bartholomeus van der Helst’s Portrait of a Man, as disputed stolen art
  
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• Annette Messager: Avec et sans raisons; Geta Brătescu: The Studio: A Tireless, Ongoing Space – review

  23-04-2017 09:00
  
  Marian Goodman Gallery; Camden Arts Centre, London
  Two veteran European artists conjure marvel and mischief from the everyday lives of womenThe English have landed. That is what Parisians of Annette Messager’s generation used to say when their period came. And now the 73-year-old French artist has returned the favour, arriving in London with a flood of bleeding wombs, fallopian tubes and bare-breasted women all painted, aptly, in spreading red watercolour. You don’t like the sound of
  
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