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• Aboudia blindsides market experts as bestselling artist of 2022

  24-09-2023 15:00
  
  Artist from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, sold 75 artworks in auction, topping Damien Hirst’s 73Not everyone will know his name, let alone his paintings, yet Aboudia has emerged as the bestselling artist of 2022, based on the number of artworks sold at auction, to the surprise of market experts.Aboudia, aka Abdoulaye Diarrassouba, 40, whose art is inspired by street culture in his home town of Abidjan in Ivory Coast, heads the Hiscox Artist Top 100, a new survey analysing key trends in contemporar
  
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• Aboudia blindsides market experts as best-selling artists of 2022

  24-09-2023 15:00
  
  Artist from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, sold 75 artworks in auction, topping Damien Hirst’s 73Not everyone will know his name, let alone his paintings, yet Aboudia has emerged as the bestselling artist of 2022, based on the number of artworks sold at auction, to the surprise of market experts.Aboudia, aka Abdoulaye Diarrassouba, 40, whose art is inspired by street culture in his home town of Abidjan in Ivory Coast, heads the Hiscox Artist Top 100, a new survey analysing key trends in contemporar
  
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• Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance review – a welcome if partial reckoning

  24-09-2023 14:30
  
  Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  Partly founded on slave money, the Fitzwilliam grapples with its past and present in an exhibition that spreads its net wide but fails to get down to the really painful details“The Black Atlantic can be defined, on one level, through the desire to transcend both the structures of the nation state, and the constraints of ethnicity and national particularity,” writes Paul Gilroy in The Black Atlantic, his seminal 1993 text. Gilroy theorises that the modern
  
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• Marina Abramović review – the artist is strangely absent

  24-09-2023 14:00
  
  Royal Academy, London
  Knives, arrows, guns, nakedness… the performance art pioneer’s blockbuster 50-year retrospective underlines her bravery, yet sells it short with off-key re-enactments by stand-insWill you make it through the door of the Royal Academy, where two young people currently face each other, naked, like a pair of human gateposts? Not if you are too tactful (or too portly), afraid of grazing their bare bodies with a sharp buckle or zip. But there is a secret bypass into
  
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• ‘I thought we’d stormed the citadel, but we hadn’t’: Claudette Johnson on blazing a trail for Black artists – and the joy of reigniting her career

  24-09-2023 13:00
  
  As a retrospective of her work opens, the British artist talks about the 1980s BLK Art Group, being eclipsed by the YBAs and how her paintings have a new sense of empowermentThere is a crackly tape recording of Claudette Johnson addressing Britain’s first ever Black Art Convention in Wolverhampton in 1982. It is one of those stray recovered moments in the national conversation that passing time has made electric. Johnson was 22, and her voice on the recording is tentative but spirited as s
  
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• Forgotten Artemisia Gentileschi painting found in Hampton Court storeroom

  24-09-2023 12:00
  
  The very personal work, owned by Charles I, discovered after being left in storage for years“A woman’s name raises doubts until her work is seen,” wrote the artist Artemisia Gentileschi to a collector of her paintings in 1649, going on to assure him that her canvases “will speak for themselves”. It took three-and-a-half centuries for the name of Gentileschi to triumphantly step out from the shadows of art history, but it has taken even longer for one of her forgotte
  
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• An old master? No, it’s an image AI just knocked up … and it can’t be copyrighted

  24-09-2023 11:00
  
  US ruling on works created through artificial intelligence gives boost to creative workers fighting for livelihoodsThe use of AI in art is facing a setback after a ruling that an award-winning image could not be copyrighted because it was not made sufficiently by humans.The decision, delivered by the US copyright office review board, found that Théâtre d’Opéra Spatial, an AI-generated image that won first place at the 2022 Colorado state fair annual art competition, was
  
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