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• A Russian Sami smokes some fish: Natalya Saprunova’s best photograph

  20-07-2022 16:20
  
  ‘Andrei is taking wood to a hangar that is used to smoke fish during a festival of sleigh races with reindeer. It’s a sacred animal to the Russian Sami’Ever since I was a teenager, I have been fascinated by Indigenous peoples. Growing up in Murmansk I was aware of the Sami, who are traditionally reindeer herders from the Kola peninsula in northern Russia, but there are also Sami in Finland, Norway and Sweden. In Russia, I was fascinated first by the Sami religious places such a
  
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• ‘Kafka would blush’: artist Peter Max caught in legal guardianship lawsuit

  20-07-2022 16:00
  
  The daughter of the celebrated artist is suing the New York courts over claims that he is being mistreated in a case that could affect the entire systemThe daughter of a celebrated pop artist who created famous images of the “cosmic sixties” is suing the New York court system over what she claims are secretive communications between her father’s court-appointed guardian and judges that drastically impact his life and violate her basic rights.Libra Max lodged a federal lawsuit o
  
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• Anticolonial hero statue to occupy Trafalgar Square fourth plinth from September

  20-07-2022 13:38
  
  Antelope by Samson Kambalu depicts John Chilembwe wearing hat in defiance of colonial rule in Nyasaland, now MalawiA sculpture of a preacher who was killed in an anticolonialist uprising in what is now Malawi will be unveiled in September on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.Antelope by Samson Kambalu is the 14th contemporary artwork to be commissioned for public display in the historic central London square. Continue reading...
  
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• EU adopts Ukrainian art exhibition left stranded in Denmark

  20-07-2022 13:15
  
  Unfolding Landscapes on show in Brussels before possible tour of member states and return to KyivRussia-Ukraine war – live newsA Ukrainian exhibition that was left stranded in a gallery in Denmark unable to return to Kyiv when Russia invaded has reopened in Brussels after being adopted by the EU.The Unfolding Landscapes show, which includes paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, photography and video, could not return to Ukraine and risked being locked away when its Danish run end
  
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