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• Thieves in flat caps carry out daylight raid on Dutch art fair

  28-06-2022 19:06
  
  Two Belgians arrested after smartly dressed robbers smash jewellery case in front of terrified visitorsArmed robbers wearing flat caps have staged a brazen daylight raid on an international art fair in the Netherlands, smashing a jewellery case with a sledgehammer in front of terrified visitors.Police said they pulled over a car and arrested two Belgians in their 20s after the four smartly dressed thieves held up the the European fine art fair (Tefaf) in the southern city of Maastricht on Tuesda
  
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• In the Black Fantastic review – reaching for tomorrow’s art world

  28-06-2022 16:08
  
  Hayward Gallery, London
  Eleven contemporary artists inspired by Afrofuturism consider possible futures with a hopeful, fizzing energyOf the many themes addressed by In the Black Fantastic, a new exhibition inspired by Afrofuturism at the the Hayward Gallery, the negotiations of the Black body is perhaps the most resonant.Take Chain Reaction, a dramatic new commission by the American sculptor Nick Cave, which sees casts of the artist’s arm, joined together in both unity and struggle, hang f
  
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• ‘They belong here’: Salisbury Cathedral exhibits Grayson Perry’s tapestries

  28-06-2022 14:57
  
  It is the first time The Vanity of Small Differences has been shown in an ecclesiastical settingThe vibrant colours are bound to attract the eye but the subject matter – from tattooed cage fighters to a celebrity chef reimagined as God – will surprise, challenge, perhaps even anger visitors to one of England’s most historic religious buildings.Grayson Perry’s work The Vanity of Small Differences – six vivid tapestries, each 4 metres by 2 metres, packed with biblical
  
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• From Poirot to poppers! Jarman award shortlist celebrates ‘risk-taking’ film-makers

  28-06-2022 09:00
  
  Contenders for the £10,000 video art prize offer up a range of work, from explorations of the UK prison system to surreal skin cream adverts From Agatha Christie novels to montages of gay porn, the source material for the 2022 Jarman award nominees list is as varied as the work itself.This year’s contenders for the £10,000 prize include British-Kenyan filmmaker Grace Ndiritu, whose 2021 film Black Beauty sets an advert for factor 5,000 skin cream against a hallucinatory televis
  
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• ‘Many people don’t know this’: the artist shining a light on nuclear testing

  28-06-2022 08:12
  
  In a new exhibition,Cara Despain draws on US and personal history to show the devastating effects that nuclear weaponry has had on communitiesOn 16 July 1945, the first nuclear bomb exploded on Earth. It happened at a testing site in Alamogordo, New Mexico, as a part of the Manhattan project, a huge US-led initiative to develop atomic weapons during the second world war. And though the project was officially disbanded in 1945, nuclear testing sites in the United States continued to emerge all ov
  
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