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• A startled youth on a tyre swing: Tyler Mitchell’s best photograph

  28-09-2022 17:41
  ‘I took this at a place called Cold Springs in upstate New York. The swing is a symbol of fun, relaxation and leisure. But he almost looks scared by his reflection in the lake’The American south is a verdant place, full of beautiful and seductive environments, but it’s also threatening, when you think about its racial and political history. Atlanta, where I was born and raised, is one of the greenest cities in the US, basically a city in a forest. I am an only child and had a l
  
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• Samson Kambalu’s Antelope review – an imperial showdown on the fourth plinth

  28-09-2022 16:57
  Trafalgar Square, London
  The Malawian-born artist’s traditional bronze figures might suggest a win for the culture warriors, but they subversively celebrate an anti-colonial heroTwo greyish-brown bronze figures stand on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth. Although both are much more than lifesize, one is unnaturally taller than the other; this is the only thing that deviates from the pair’s studied naturalism. So seamlessly do they blend with the other bronze statues, with Nelson
  
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• Save Lowry’s Going to the Match for public, urges Salford mayor

  28-09-2022 13:07
  Plea to wealthy footballers and clubs to help buy auctioned painting to stop it from disappearing into private collection The mayor of Salford has urged wealthy football players and clubs to consider buying LS Lowry’s painting Going to the Match when it is auctioned next month to prevent the “huge tragedy and scandal” of it disappearing from public view.The 1953 work by one of Britain’s best known and best-loved painters is expected to smash records when it is sold by the
  
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• Don’t let Lowry be sold to private collection, mayor urges football

  28-09-2022 13:07
  As Going to the Match goes under auction, Salford hopes a wealthy local club or player will step inThe mayor of Salford has urged wealthy football players and clubs to consider buying LS Lowry’s painting Going to the Match when it is auctioned next month to prevent the “huge tragedy and scandal” of it disappearing from public view.The 1953 work by one of Britain’s best known and best-loved painters is expected to smash records when it is sold by the Professional Footballe
  
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• Lucian Freud review – the Queen, Leigh Bowery and the artist’s ex-wives stand brutally revealed

  28-09-2022 01:01
  National Gallery, LondonFrom the monarch to the naked performance artist who was living with Aids, Freud paints life lived in the face of death, with an unsentimental eye for human tendernessEven the Queen of England, said Andy Warhol, can’t buy a better hot dog than the bum on the sidewalk. Another thing the Queen of England couldn’t buy was a flattering portrait by Lucian Freud. When he painted Elizabeth II at the start of this millennium, he treated her face with the same harsh ob
  
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• Nina Totenberg’s Friendship With RBG Shows The Perils Of Insider Friendships

  28-09-2022 00:01 via politico.com
  There’s a chance that a blunt story about Ginsburg’s decline might have changed the trajectory that led to the end of Americans’ right to abortion. – Politico
  
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