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• Malik Robinson discusses the important role of dance

  05-07-2021 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Executive Director of Cleo Parker Robinson Dance and Chair of the Board of DanceUSA speaks about the place of the art form in our ever-changing world. – Aaron Dworkin
  
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• A joyless monument to Diana, Princess of Wales | Letters

  05-07-2021 18:28
  
  Kate Robinson agrees that the sculpture is inadequate, but Prof Mike Elliott questions the invective hurled at it. Plus Maggie Owen on the beauty of madrigalsJonathan Jones rightly criticises the inadequacy of the Diana statue (An awkward, lifeless shrine – the Diana statue is a spiritless hunk of nonsense, 1 July). Its creator clearly lacks both observational skills and an understanding of the subject. Where is Diana’s love and sympathy for children in these joyless figures that fai
  
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• Paula Rego review – phenomenal paintings, shame about the decor

  05-07-2021 13:50
  
  Tate Britain, London
  This bold retrospective shows that Rego came into her own in the 90s – when the BritArtists overshadowed her. So why show her work on garishly painted walls? In the most staggering room in Paula Rego’s retrospective of seven decades’ painting, women crouch, crawl, kneel and sleep. One, called Dog Woman, goes down on all fours and contorts her face as if she is barking or howling. In the neighbouring picture, Bad Dog, a woman is seen from behind as she assum
  
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• Faces of 850 trans people to follow anticolonial rebel on fourth plinth

  05-07-2021 10:00
  
  High-profile Trafalgar Square site to feature work by artists Teresa Margolles and Samson KambaluCasts of the faces of 850 trans people are to be arranged around the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, central London, for one of the world’s highest-profile contemporary art commissions.The work, by the Mexican artist Teresa Margolles, will appear in 2024. Related: Fourth plinth review – 'My heart is in my mouth'Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I had designed it a little too small’: Abraham Poincheval on spending a week inside a sculpture of himself

  05-07-2021 09:00
  
  He’s lived within a boulder, hatched a nest of hen’s eggs, and now plans to encase himself in a beehive. Is this France’s most extreme performance artist –and how does he go to the toilet? Last month, in a smart gallery in Paris, the back of a sculpture was removed and a man was lifted out. He looked around, disoriented, as his body slowly unfurled. A doctor rushed to his side and, after inspecting him, announced he was in good health. The crowd cheered. He’d been i
  
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