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• Tate exhibition to explore gallery’s links to Caribbean slave trade

  28-11-2021 20:16
  
  Curator of Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art says institutions must take responsibility for pastBritish institutions must take responsibility for their history of benefiting from slavery, the curator of a new landmark exhibition of Caribbean-British art at Tate Britain has said.Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now, features artists working across film, photography, painting, sculpture and fashion. They include those of Caribbean heritage as well as those inspir
  
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• New Zealand’s secondary art market is booming – now artists want a share

  28-11-2021 20:00
  
  Without a resale royalty scheme, struggling artists are missing out on much needed money for their workThis month New Zealand artist Ayesha Green watched in surprise as one of her artworks fetched $48,000 at auction – $29,000 more than she sold it for just a year earlier. The hammer price was sizeable for an artist who describes herself as somewhere between emerging and mid-career, and if the country had a resale royalty scheme for artists in place, Green would have taken home a healthy pa
  
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• Lubaina Himid review – a promise unfulfilled

  28-11-2021 10:00
  
  Tate Modern, London
  Spectacle and passion feel strangely neutralised in this immersive retrospective from the engaging Turner prize-winnerThe Lubaina Himid retrospective at Tate Modern ought to be momentous. It is certainly overdue – a full-dress museum show for this 67-year-old artist, the first black woman to win the Turner prize, a visionary of evergreen inventiveness and humour, and a much-admired champion of her fellow artists.Himid’s work is as open-armed as her ideas of what a
  
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