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• Photo 2022: highlights from Australia’s biggest photography biennale

  28-04-2022 19:30
  
  Australia’s largest photography biennale Photo 2022 will return to the streets and galleries of Melbourne and regional Victoria from 29 April to 22 May 2022. Exploring themes of self, mortality, history, nature and society, the festival will honour 123 local and international artists and photographers across 90 exhibitions, with 50 world premieres Continue reading...
  
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• Fa’afafine Yuki Kihara celebrates Samoa’s third gender: ‘Galleries think they can tick the box with me’

  28-04-2022 19:30
  
  Representing New Zealand at the Venice Biennale, the Samoan-Kiwi artist is foregrounding Samoa’s fa’afafine and transgender communities, and the climate crisis hidden from touristsThe Venice Biennale is considered one of the most prestigious art events in the world, but Yuki Kihara seems more weary than excited. When asked how it feels to be representing Aotearoa New Zealand with her exhibition Paradise Camp, she says, “I feel like it’s long overdue.” The biennale h
  
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• The Guardian view on the Venice Biennale: sensuous and serious | Editorial

  28-04-2022 19:26
  
  The latest edition of the art exhibition feeds all the senses. It feels exactly right for nowThe 2022 Venice Art Biennale belies its name. Delayed by the pandemic, it is three rather than two years since the previous edition, which bore the foreboding title May You Live In Interesting Times. The ancient Chinese curse certainly worked.Cecilia Alemani, the New York-based Italian curator of the 59th edition, which opened on Saturday, thus had extra time to prepare her exhibition, which occupies the
  
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• Body shock: why Cronenberg’s kidney stones could be the saviour of NFTs

  28-04-2022 12:21
  
  He’s been incubating his latest work for the past two years. Now the Canadian film-maker is auctioning it off to the crypto community – and what an incredible bargain it isNothing on earth is quite as depressing as the moment a celebrity starts getting into NFTs. There you’ll be, quite happy following them on social media when, bang, up pops a sub-Banksy cartoon of a monkey in a wig and a falsely jubilant message celebrating the fact that they’ve joined some sort of club.
  
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• ‘This is for everyone!’: inside Britain’s first ever LGBTQ+ museum

  28-04-2022 09:00
  
  Queer Britain in north London is a bold attempt to celebrate queer history in all of its forms. At a time when the community is under attack, we need it more than everIt is little over half a century since homosexuality was partially decriminalised in England and Wales, and it’s a period defined by both progress and trauma. When Lord Arran co-sponsored the bill that ended the total criminalisation of same-sex relations between men – after his gay brother had killed himself – hi
  
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• Punks, skins and Tunnock’s Tea Cakes: Café Royal photo zines – in pictures

  28-04-2022 08:00
  
  From Black Panthers protesting to shots of Glaswegian bakers, these slim publications contain work by a wide range of photographers past and present Continue reading...
  
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• ‘They are totally smashing it!’ Bernardine Evaristo on the artistic triumph of older Black women

  28-04-2022 07:00
  
  Artists, novelists, actors, poets: from the Venice Biennale to Bridgerton, Black women in their 50s and 60s are finally getting the recognition they deserve, says the pioneering Booker winnerWhen I heard, earlier this month, that the fine-art photographer Ingrid Pollard had made the shortlist for the Turner prize, potentially the most career-changing of art accolades, I was overjoyed, but also astonished. Overjoyed because her art deserves this level of recognition; astonished because it has tak
  
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