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• Marina Abramović and Ulay speak candidly about their relationship

  06-08-2017 23:00
  The performance artists Marina Abramovi and Ulay speak candidly about their personal and professional relationship, from their first meeting in 1975 to a recent reconciliation at the Louisiana Museum.   For more on this story, see Abramovic and Ulay reunite at Louisiana Museum
  
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• Matisse in the Studio review – a few of his favourite things

  06-08-2017 09:00
  Royal Academy, London
  Pots, jugs, chairs, textiles… Matisse’s work is peopled by his beloved possessions, which in turn begin to look like Matisses in this beautifully cluttered journey into the artist’s mindAt his wedding in 1898, Henri Matisse received a silver chocolate pot as a gift from a fellow painter. You can see this startling object at the Royal Academy. Low-bellied like a duck, it balances on three dainty feet and rises up, full-throated and almost comical, to a spe
  
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• India’s partition: ‘People in their final years are desperate to open up’

  06-08-2017 01:05
  Long-hidden drawings and letters recalling a dark and fearful period are coming to light at last in IndiaSardari Lal Parasher recorded what he witnessed during partition in hundreds of feverish sketches. Then he buried the images in a trunk for the rest of his life.The artist, from western Punjab, was a survivor of the blunt, bloody cleaving of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. As the train that would carry him from Lahore to Indian territory pulled in, an attendant pulled bodies off it and hosed
  
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