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• Howardena Pindell: A New Language review – beautiful, unforgettable warnings

  10-07-2022 14:00
  
  Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
  Tragedy, horror and everyday racism are countered with fearless grace by the American artist in this five-decade retrospectiveThere is a painting in this beautiful yet devastating survey of the American artist Howardena Pindell that looks, at first, like old-fashioned pointillism. Thousands of coloured dots quicken and glow across a large abstract canvas. The predominant colour is rust, suggesting some kind of urban landscape – unless, perhaps, this is the um
  
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• Owl and Pussycat author Edward Lear’s no-nonsense talent for capturing the moment in drawings

  10-07-2022 12:00
  
  An exhibition of sketches by the English author reveals his artistic skills and life as ‘something of a sad clown’His nonsense verse and limericks have delighted generations of readers, with The Owl and the Pussycat among English literature’s best-loved poems, but Edward Lear most wanted recognition as an oil painter of grand subjects. Now many of the landscape sketches he created on his extensive travels worldwide are to be shown for the first time.They make up an extraordinar
  
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