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• Damien Hirst’s shark changed my life. Now, he has taken a chainsaw to his glorious past | Jonathan Jones

  20-03-2024 18:00
  
  In creating sculptures backdated to the days when his art electrified the world, the former YBA has cast doubt on his youthful legacy and destroyed our belief in his creative futurePerhaps we should have pity for Damien Hirst. Artistic decline is a terrible fate, even if you have immense wealth to cushion the blow. What artist, what person, wants to think all the good stuff, the fireworks and inventiveness, is in the past? But Hirst apparently does think that. He could hardly confess it more cle
  
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• London gallery brings African artists – and Yoruba culture – to global audience

  20-03-2024 17:22
  
  Adenrele Sonariwo has opened her Rele gallery in Nigeria, Los Angeles and now Mayfair, to showcase the best African artistsThe US-born Nigerian gallerist Adenrele Sonariwo was four years old when a sudden turn of events in 1990 meant her family moved to Africa: her father inherited the role of a Yoruba traditional ruler in south-west Nigeria.“My name, Adenrele, means ‘the crown is going back home’,” says the 37-year-old, who opened Rele Gallery in Mayfair, London, last mo
  
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• Stage-diver at an early Nirvana gig – Charles Peterson’s best photograph

  20-03-2024 16:57
  
  ‘The energy at this show was chaotic. This guy scrambled to the top of the amplifier and leaped. I thought he was going to break his neck’In the late 1980s I was working at Sub Pop records in Seattle as a jack of all trades, and also doing in-house photography. One evening I went to see the label’s new signings, Nirvana, but I just didn’t get it. I didn’t even photograph them that night, as I wasn’t impressed. But that all changed very quickly. I heard their d
  
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• Piero della Francesca’s Augustinian altarpiece reassembled after 450 years

  20-03-2024 15:24
  
  Eight known components of artwork were housed in five different museums in Europe and the US before being reunited in MilanEight surviving panels of Piero della Francesca’s Augustinian altarpiece have been reassembled after 450 years, possibly solving one of its enduring mysteries.The celebrated polyptych was created by the early Italian Renaissance master specifically for the church of the Augustinians at Borgo San Sepolcro (now Sansepolcro) in his home town near Arezzo and was comprised
  
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• New Banksy tree mural in north London defaced with white paint

  20-03-2024 13:52
  
  Banksy claimed mural in Finsbury Park as his own on Monday and artwork has now been damagedA mural of a tree painted by Banksy on a residential building in north London has been defaced with white paint two days after it first appeared.The artwork in Finsbury Park features rough brushstrokes of green paint on a wall near a tree, giving an abstract appearance of foliage, with a stencil of a person holding a pressure hose next to it. Continue reading...
  
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• Artist behind Mona’s ladies-only lounge ‘absolutely delighted’ man is suing for gender discrimination

  20-03-2024 09:05
  
  NSW man Jason Lau claims denying men entry is discriminatory, but artist Kirsha Kaechele says men’s ‘experience of rejection is the artwork’Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe creator of an art installation that has become the subject of a formal anti-discrimination complaint says she is “absolutely delighted” that the case has ended up in Tasmania’s civil and administrative tribunal.Kirsha Kaechele’s installation Ladies Lounge opened in Hobar
  
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