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• Outcry as memorial to Tiananmen Square victims removed from Hong Kong University

  23-12-2021 13:25
  
  Site of the Pillar of Shame at city’s oldest university under guard after workmen cut up statueHong Kong’s oldest university and the territory’s authorities have been accused of rewriting history after cutting up and removing a statue mourning those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.The erasure of the memorial from where it had stood for nearly 25 years came after Beijing intensified its targeting of political dissent in Hong Kong since the Covid pandemic.Continue re
  
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• ‘I was blown away by the work I saw’: the Turner prize and the rise of neurodiverse art

  23-12-2021 11:35
  
  Six years ago, they were told they shouldn’t be in the same building as ‘artists of calibre’. But, with a Turner nomination under their belt, life is changing for the Project Art Works collective and other neurodiverse artists‘Everyone’s done brilliant, not just me.” I’m chatting to Lucy, an artist with Project Art Works, about the Hastings-based collective’s Turner prize nomination (they lost out to Belfast’s Array Collective in the end). To
  
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• Contagion, colour and me: artists face up to Covid – in pictures

  23-12-2021 08:00
  
  From a film inspired by silenced church bells to an ‘equation for humanity’ inscribed on a stone, 10 artists make personal work inspired by the impact of the pandemic on their lives Continue reading...
  
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• Outcry as Hong Kong University memorial to Tiananmen Square victims is removed

  23-12-2021 06:10
  
  Site of the Pillar of Shame at the city’s oldest university is under guard after workmen dismantled statueHong Kong’s oldest university has removed a statue mourning those killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 and posted guards at the site where it has stood for more than 20 years.The move prompted criticism of the university and the Hong Kong authorities, with academics and experts saying the removal of the sculpture was an attempt at “rewriting history”. Co
  
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• Hong Kong University memorial to Tiananmen Square victims is removed

  23-12-2021 03:31
  
  Site of the Pillar of Shame at the city’s oldest university is under guard after workmen dismantled statueHong Kong’s oldest university has removed a statue mourning those killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 and posted guards at the site where it has stood for more than 20 years.The 8-metre-tall (26ft) Pillar of Shame by the Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt was one of the few remaining public memorials in the territory commemorating the bloody crackdown that is a
  
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