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• Kerry James Marshall donates portrait of Henry Louis Gates Jr to Cambridge University

  02-10-2023 18:18
  
  World-renowned artist gifts painting to mark award of honorary degree for author’s outstanding achievements The acclaimed African American artist Kerry James Marshall has donated his first formal portrait of a living person to the University of Cambridge.The painting is of Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr, an alumni of Clare College, Cambridge, to mark the award of an honorary degree in recognition of his outstanding achievements as an author, scholar, historian and film-maker. Cont
  
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• Poulomi Basu: Fireflies/Maya review: powerful visions from mother-and-daughter survivors of male violence

  02-10-2023 17:49
  
  East Gallery, Norwich/V&A LondonThe artist who created a menstruating superhero has now made a deeply personal body of work, responding to the global epidemic of domestic violenceIt’s not every day you find yourself riding on a giant tampon across a blood red lagoon, on your way to fight a cyclopean octopus with your bare hands. But here you are, on a journey of self-discovery – which also involves some intense face-offs with cruel teenagers and a grilling from your mother in you
  
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• Poulomi Basu: Fireflies review: hard-hitting visions from mother-and-daughter survivors of male violence

  02-10-2023 17:49
  
  East Gallery, NorwichThe artist who once created a menstruating superhero has now made a deeply personal body of work, responding to the global epidemic of domestic violenceIt’s not every day you find yourself riding on a giant tampon across a blood red lagoon, on your way to fight a cyclopean octopus with your bare hands. But here you are, on a journey of self-discovery – which also involves some intense face-offs with cruel teenagers and a grilling from your mother in your bedroom
  
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• ‘It’s a very rich story’: the complicated connection between Manet and Degas

  02-10-2023 17:10
  
  An expansive new exhibition at the Met explores the fractious personal and professional relationship between two titans of the French art worldIn addition to being contemporaries who each produced storied masterpieces that were instrumental in the development of Impressionism, French painters Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas also shared complicated personal and professional relationships that were of great importance in their social lives and artistic careers. The Metropolitan Museum of Art&
  
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• AI Vincent van Gogh talks of ‘mental health struggles’ in Paris exhibition

  02-10-2023 07:00
  
  Musée d’Orsay adds AI and VR to display of artist’s last works, never previously seen togetherFor a man who died in 1890, Vincent van Gogh seemed remarkably au fait with 21st-century parlance.Asked why he had cut off his left ear, the artist replied that this was a misconception and he had in fact only cut off “part of my earlobe”. So why did he shoot himself in the chest with a revolver, causing injuries from which he died two days later? Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I want to unleash rage’: Iranian exile Shirin Neshat on her film about veils, prison and rape

  02-10-2023 06:00
  
  The artist is returning to the inflammatory approach that caused a storm in the 1990s – with a harrowing film about a woman the Iranian authorities try to crush (warning: images contain nudity) ‘Every Iranian woman is a threat,” says Shirin Neshat, “just by being a woman.” The artist is wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Woman, Life, Freedom” – the slogan of the protest movement that erupted a year ago in Iran, following the death i
  
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