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• Snakes, scrolls, swinging from chandeliers: how my friend Carolee Schneemann transformed art

  06-09-2022 17:48
  She staged an event even Duchamp said was messy, filmed herself having sex, unrolled a script from her vagina – and took art away from canvas and into the stuff of life itselfCarolee Schneemann was born in 1939 in Pennsylvania, USA. Her father, a doctor, gave her an early introduction to the body and its viscera. She received a scholarship to Bard College at 16 and left to study in New York, ending up at Columbia. “I had never found a precedent of woman artists in the art history boo
  
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• Snakes, scrolls, swinging from chandeliers: how Carolee Schneemann transformed art

  06-09-2022 17:48
  She staged an event even Duchamp said was messy, filmed herself having sex, unrolled a script from her vagina – and took art away from canvas and into the stuff of life itselfCarolee Schneemann was born in 1939 in Pennsylvania, USA. Her father, a doctor, gave her an early introduction to the body and its viscera. She received a scholarship to Bard College at 16 and left to study in New York, ending up at Columbia. “I had never found a precedent of woman artists in the art history boo
  
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• Artist Zoë Buckman: ‘The UK is screwed, but not nearly as screwed as America’

  06-09-2022 15:12
  She writes rap lyrics on vintage lingerie and paints gynaecological instruments bubblegum pink. Now, for her first UK show, the Brooklyn-based British artist is tackling the mental, physical and financial fallout from a miscarriageZoë Buckman’s uterus has been doing the rounds on social media. The Brooklyn-based artist made the kinetic sculpture, which comprises a neon outline of an abstracted reproductive organ with fibreglass boxing gloves as ovaries, in the run-up to the 2016 US el
  
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• Ingrid Pollard: Three Drops of Blood review – finding magic and myths among the ferns

  06-09-2022 12:16
  Thelma Hulbert Gallery, HonitonRace, botany and folklore are interwoven with sublime skill by the Turner-nominated artist to explore colonial attitudes to race and EnglishnessWith the opening of her survey show, Carbon Slowly Turning, at MK Gallery in March (now running at Turner Contemporary, Margate, until 25 September), 2022 had already shaped up as a major year in the career of photographer and visual artist Ingrid Pollard. Then in April she was nominated for the Turner prize, commended by a
  
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• David LaChapelle: ‘I’ve never seen what I do as objectification’

  06-09-2022 08:14
  The world famous photographer, known for portraits of Britney Spears, Eminem, Tupac and Angelina Jolie, discusses his long career ahead of a new retrospectivePhotographer David LaChapelle – best known for his hyperreal, surrealistic portraits of pop stars – has come full circle. Running away from the bullying he received as a queer teenager in his native Connecticut, LaChapelle found an artistic path forward in 80s New York City, becoming an acolyte of Andy Warhol. Following in the f
  
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