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• Revueltas and Social Justice on NPR

  14-03-2022 23:15 via artsjournal.com
  
  At the top of today’s 50-minute National Public Radio feature on Silvestre Revueltas – the fourth radio documentary
  
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• Statue of suffragist Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy deserves a mention | Letters

  14-03-2022 18:53
  
  Hazel Reeves’ bronze was revealed on International Women’s Day in Congleton, says Susan Munro, but where was the coverage?I was surprised that there was no coverage in the Guardian of the unveiling of a statue of the important suffragist Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy on International Women’s Day.The bronze statue – by the renowned artist Hazel Reeves, who also sculpted the wonderful “Our Emmeline” statue in Manchester – stands in the centre of Congleton, w
  
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• Hockney’s Eye review – ‘Makes Constable look like a wet hanky’

  14-03-2022 14:05
  
  Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  Exhibiting next to Old Masters, David Hockney’s work more than hold its own, its dazzling hues sometimes making the rest look dull in comparisonDavid Hockney has never patented a colour, as far as I know. But there’s a Hockney blue and a Hockney red, in fact a whole palette of bright subtle hues that are totally his own. That has never been more lusciously apparent than in his scintillating takeover of the Fitzwilliam Museum, one of Britain’s best
  
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• Rachel Jones: say cheeeeese review – mutating paintings put a grin on your face

  14-03-2022 11:28
  
  Chisenhale Gallery, London
  Things are happening everywhere all at once in this solo show full of jumbled up body parts, which reclaims painting as an improvised art formMouths speak, chew, swallow and spit. They kiss and they sing. Teeth chatter, grind and decay. They ache and they fall out. Mouths and teeth and lips recur in Rachel Jones’s work. The artist also wants us to think of the interior experience of being a black body, and what it feels like to be looked at in a largely white spa
  
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• Astral peaks: music, books, art and more about the majesty of space

  14-03-2022 11:00
  
  From beautiful celestial metaphors to a virtual simulacrum of an entire galaxy, our critics suggest popular culture inspired by the wonders of astronomyIt looks as if the universe was designed by a Romantic painter. Great glowing clouds of smoke and mist hang in the void with twinkling stars spangled within them. Instead of lonely bright dots in black nothingness, as space used to be pictured, it turns out to be a sublime storm of dazzling richness. The Pillars of Creation is the photo that made
  
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• Are NFTs really art?

  14-03-2022 10:00
  
  Collectible and cartoonish, these digital multiples, traded in cryptocurrency, confer membership of an exclusive club – sometimes literally. But do they have any aesthetic value? A critic weighs inIn January, a clip from The Tonight Show featuring Jimmy Fallon and Paris Hilton went viral: not because either had said anything particularly interesting or scandalous, but because the interview was so uncanny in its content and its style. In the video, Hilton, who looks like a telegenic, radioa
  
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• Tate galleries cut ties with sanctioned billionaires after Ukraine invasion

  14-03-2022 09:32
  
  Group severs relations with donors and supporters who were sanctioned by US and EURussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesThe Tate has severed relations with Viktor Vekselberg and Petr Aven after the Russian billionaires were sanctioned by the US and EU after the invasion of Ukraine.Vekselberg, the founder of a Russian energy conglomerate and an associate of Vladimir Putin, was an honorary member of the prestigious Tate Foundation, a fundraising charity for acquisitions, exhibitions, education and cap
  
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• ‘My film language? Sega and Nintendo’ – Larry Achiampong brings a gamer’s pizzazz to the gallery

  14-03-2022 07:00
  
  From Robertson’s racist jam jars to murderous old ballads, the British-Ghanaian artist tackles notions of empire and belonging – with a gamer’s eye. He talks about his epic new film, a voyage through post-Brexit BritainThe first voice you hear in Larry Achiampong’s new film, Wayfinder, is that of his eight-year-old daughter, Zael. “The beginning of every story starts at the end of another,” she says, with the endearing hesitancy of a young reader approaching a
  
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