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• Final piece of 17th-century tapestry stolen 42 years ago found by Spanish police

  21-02-2022 13:18
  
  Flemish work taken by notorious art thief ‘Erik the Belgian’ returned to the church it was snatched fromSpanish police have recovered the final piece of a 17th-century tapestry that was stolen 42 years ago by a notorious art thief.The 4-metre by 6.5-metre tapestry, known as La apoteosis de las artes (The Apotheosis of the Arts), was one of six Flemish tapestries taken from the church of Santo Domingo in the town of Castrojeriz in northern Spain, in the early hours of 7 November 1980.
  
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• Hayv Kahraman: ‘I was brainwashed into thinking anything Euro-American-centric is the ideal’

  21-02-2022 10:00
  
  The Kurdish artist draws on Baghdad’s miniature tradition, self-portraiture, plant bacteria and neurosculpting for artworks that provoke a gut reactionIn 2006, the artist Hayv Kahraman moved to the US, then occupying her homeland, Iraq, and began painting a woman who has been a fixture of her work ever since. With parchment-pale skin, a swoosh of raven hair, scarlet lips and strong brows, this figure recalls the characters set against unadorned backgrounds in 12th-century Baghdad’s m
  
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