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• Louise Gardiner obituary

  06-11-2023 18:50
  
  My sister Louise Gardiner, who has died of cancer aged 51, was a professional machine embroiderist; her work ranged from embroidered illustrations to large-scale artworks and commemorative capes. She also set up the Lou Gardiner brand to sell luxury silk scarves, pouffes and cushions.Among her most notable works were a two-metre quilt, entitled Licky Lips Genie, commissioned by the Liberty department store in London for a window display in 2010, and a collection of five large and intricate tumbl
  
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• Letter: Michael Leonard obituary

  06-11-2023 17:21
  
  Michael Leonard was famous for his homoerotic drawings and paintings, which my generation of young gay men first saw in the early 1980s at his one-man show at Fischer Fine Art in London. In 1983 Gay Men’s Press published Changing, a small square book of 50 drawings, to own which was de rigueur at the time.Leonard’s unique gift as a draughtsman was to make the viewer see his sexy male nudes with something of that thrilling stolen glance so familiar to gay men the world over. The allur
  
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• ‘A long way from what the camera can do’: Don Eddy’s incredible photorealist paintings

  06-11-2023 16:48
  
  The 79-year-old painter has captured Covid-lockdown New York’s ‘beauty in decrepitude’ in a series of stunning paintings, showcased in a new exhibitionDon Eddy’s new exhibition with Nancy Hoffman Gallery is a treasure trove of compression, complexity, color and texture. Typically grouped with the photorealists who came to prominence in the 70s (although Eddy has distanced himself from the term), Eddy is known as a painter who is obsessed with light. Here that ethereal qua
  
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• ‘When is it too early to teach your kids about genocide?’ Inside the Imperial War Museum’s harrowing new galleries

  06-11-2023 13:35
  
  From the Somme to Afghanistan and Iraq, 500 works capture a century of warfare at the museum’s new Blavatnik art, film and photography galleries. You could spend days in its screening rooms alone, says our writerDuring the first world war, 124,702 British soldiers were victims of gas attacks. They suffered blisters, burns or temporary blindness and 2,308 of them died. In July 1918, the Ministry of Information sent American society portraitist John Singer Sargent to the front. There he witn
  
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• Skin review – Brazilian city’s protest art maps out supercharged political landscape

  06-11-2023 08:00
  
  In a wordless paean to Belo Horizonte, this film celebrates the graffiti found throughout the streets as an act of resistance against Jair BolsonaroLike large-scale tattoos, colourful murals and graffiti adorn the urban body of Belo Horizonte, a densely populated city in southeastern Brazil. Composed largely of static shots, Marcos Pimentel’s poignant documentary conjures an awe-striking tapestry of artistic expression and revolutionary resistance.Imposing in terms of size, these sprawling
  
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• Breathing, bushfires and ‘little bees’: children make art for the climate crisis – in pictures

  06-11-2023 00:30
  
  For the 2024 Adelaide festival, young people from around South Australia were invited to make art in response to their three climate change priorities, chosen via a survey: mass extinction, extreme weather, and air and waterway pollution.
  Through workshops supported by local schools, more than 1,100 works were submitted to the Create4Adelaide project, from artists as young as one – which the public can now vote on until 4 December. A selection of the works appears below but the full suite
  
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