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‘Like a radioactive cloud’: elegance and horror combine in powerful Yhonnie Scarce exhibition

01-04-2024 16:00

Australia’s forgotten nuclear history and its dehumanisation of Aboriginal people come together in the First Nations glass artist’s fiercely intellectual and deeply felt workGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailYhonnie Scarce grew up in the grim aftermath of nuclear weapons testing in South Australia in the 50s and 60s, not far from her birthplace of Woomera. From the tender age of ten, she heard stories from elders about a cataclysmic roar, the sky turning red and a poisonous

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Bri Lee: ‘Writing about getting molested is why I now enjoy artistic freedom. That’s cooked’

01-04-2024 16:00

In the lead-up to the release of her first novel, the author talks about art, cynicism and the human fascination with painBri Lee is always working. It is obvious in the deeply confessional books she has written: using her law degree and story of being molested as a child to explore how the law handles sexual crimes (2018’s Eggshell Skull); her own eating disorder to examine body image (2019’s Beauty); and her anxieties about her own intelligence driving an investigation into the sex

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From Banksy’s green leaves to Miami’s pink islands, public art’s a party – and everyone’s invited!

01-04-2024 09:00

Yoko Ono hung wishes from trees. Jeanne-Claude and Christo coated entire coastlines. But their work had one thing in common: it made us think about what we should cherish – and what we are losingLast week, I took my five-year-old nephew to see the new Banksy in London. As we were walking, I told him it was a new, magical tree that had suddenly appeared overnight, put up by a masked man, and that it was up to us to solve the mystery. He came up with all sorts of theories.When we got there,

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Ukrainian sculptor who fled Kyiv accepted into Royal Society of British Artists

01-04-2024 01:02

Alex Lidagovsky was forced to leave Ukraine with his family when his studio was bombed during the Russian invasionA Ukrainian sculptor who fled to the UK when his studio was destroyed has been accepted into the Royal Society of British Artists.Alex Lidagovsky was forced to leave Kyiv with his wife, Dasha Nepochatova, and 16-year-old stepdaughter after the Russian invasion began on 24 February 2022. Continue reading...

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