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• ‘The story enraged me’ – US artist Deborah Roberts on her Child Q collage

  07-06-2022 15:47
  
  She used to work in a shoe-shop but her work now sells for huge sums and is collected by big museums and Beyoncé. The African American explains why she tackled the shocking strip-search of a 15-year-old girl in a London schoolDeborah Roberts seemed to explode on to the art scene only recently with her poignant collages of black life, but the 60-year-old African American has been working assiduously as an artist for three decades. Until a few years ago, she supplemented her income working
  
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• Thrifty summer: free films, folk and standup – 25 cost-free ways to enjoy arts in the UK

  07-06-2022 13:00
  
  You don’t have to shell out to enjoy the best in music, film, theatre, art and comedy – from a Francis Bacon in Aberdeen to Notting Hill’s unique and spectacular carnivalMusic Continue reading...
  
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• Theaster Gates’s Serpentine Pavilion: Black Chapel review – an empty vessel?

  07-06-2022 11:41
  
  The artist has built a space for quiet contemplation in homage to his roofer father, but the materials seem too clean-cut and corporate to fit the ideaA tolling church bell has joined the summer sounds of birdsong and tinkling fountains in Kensington Gardens, announcing the arrival of an unusual sacred space. Standing among the trees as a brooding black cylinder, this year’s Serpentine pavilion, titled Black Chapel, is one of the more sombre structures built for the annual commission so fa
  
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• Theaster Gates’s Serpentine Pavilion: Black Chapel review – a bit too slick

  07-06-2022 11:41
  
  The artist has built a space for quiet contemplation in homage to his roofer father, but the materials seem too clean-cut and corporate to fit the idea Continue reading...
  
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• A monument to a roofer that lets in the rain: Theaster Gates’s Serpentine Pavilion

  07-06-2022 11:41
  
  The Chicago-based artist has punched a huge hole in the roof of his Black Chapel. Could a downpour add one further thrilling sonic dimension to its programme of Gregorian chants, jazz recitals and Japanese tea ceremonies?A tolling church bell has joined the summer sounds of birdsong and tinkling fountains in Kensington Gardens, announcing the arrival of an unusual sacred space. Standing among the trees as a brooding black cylinder, this year’s Serpentine pavilion, titled Black Chapel, is o
  
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• ‘The beginning of a conversation’: the Met examines a complex history of emancipation art

  07-06-2022 08:06
  
  In a new exhibition, the popularity of antislavery art is revisited with a critical eye on what is being shown and why it’s being celebratedMuseum exhibitions are traditionally about objects. But in a provocatively commentated show of Black portraits from the 18th and 19th centuries, the Met confronts itself.Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast centers on Why Born Enslaved!, the bust Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux modelled in 1868 and produced in popular editions thereafter. Life-size, she is
  
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• Comedian John Oliver offers to buy Melbourne’s ‘demonic’ banana statue

  07-06-2022 04:31
  
  Artwork by Adam Stone provoked a public backlash, culminating in its attempted decapitation and removal from a Fitzroy streetComedian John Oliver has offered to buy a controversial banana statue that was pulled off the streets of Melbourne after being attacked by vandalsThe $22,000, 1.8m tall anthropomorphic fibreglass banana was commissioned from artist Adam Stone by the City of Yarra. Stone said it was a representation of hubris and climate change. Continue reading...
  
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