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• Let’s tell the story of art without men | Letters

  19-04-2024 19:29
  
  Dr Suzy Tutchell champions the work of past and present female artists, while Caroline Higgitt takes Francesco Vezzoli’s challengeIf the art world is so “vast and varied”, as the subheading on your article says (Art unlocked, 13 April), why were 10 male artists and only three women artists featured? Why, yet again, are we being asked to consider masterworks, “old and new”, which reflect a not-so-varied, male-dominated canon?It’s 2024, Katy Hessel has writ
  
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• The Guardian view on the Royal Academy: reframing a bloody past | Editorial

  19-04-2024 19:25
  
  The Royal Academy is examining the part it has played in Britain’s history of slavery and empire – and the usual carping suspects will not be pleasedVery recent visitors from Mars may not know of the regular attacks on the National Trust for being “woke”, but the rest of us have heard plenty. The trust’s latest onslaught on British values has something to do with the lack of butter in the scones. Never mind that they have been made like this for years; Tory MPs and
  
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• ‘No death in Venice’: Israel-Gaza tensions infiltrate biennale

  19-04-2024 16:49
  
  Protests erupt outside Israel pavilion, official Israeli artist pulls out, and Ukraine team puts up posters showing maps of nearest bomb shelterBillionaires’ yachts and protests; cocktail parties and culture wars; bellinis and boycotts. The Venice Biennale’s opening preview days are always a place of odd clashes and juxtapositions, as artists, curators, critics, and wealthy collectors descend on the city to take in often politically radical art.But this year’s edition vibrates
  
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• Expressionists turn blue, Gormley gardens and Rauschenberg reaches out – the week in art

  19-04-2024 13:00
  
  Pioneering German modernists, a stately new setting for Britain’s best-known sculptor and Rauschenberg’s utopian cultural exchange – all in your weekly dispatchExpressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider
  The passion and spirituality of a key movement in early 20th century German art jerks back to life like Dr Caligari’s creature.
  • Tate Modern, London, from 25 April until 20 October Continue reading...
  
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• Faith Ringgold obituary

  19-04-2024 11:49
  
  Artist whose paintings, textiles and sculpture aimed to depict ‘everything happening in America’ amid the tumult of the 1960sOn a damp night in November 1970, Faith Ringgold, who has died aged 93, was locking the doors to an exhibition at the Judson Memorial church in Greenwich Village, when four strangers turned up pleading to see the show of flags she and several other radical artists of the downtown New York scene were staging. After a brief look at her painting, Flag for the Moon
  
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• Mahler on Solo Trombone — Coming Up at Colorado Mahlerfest This May

  19-04-2024 05:01 via artsjournal.com
  David Taylor and JH perform Schubert’s “Der Doppelganger” at the 2023 Brevard Music FestivalWriting in The American Scholar, Sudip Bose
  
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• What Does It Mean To “Own” Culture? (And Do We Have To?)

  19-04-2024 00:01 via theconversation.com
  
  Our music, films, books and photographs are increasingly accessed via digital platforms rather than stored on our shelves. Do these digital items really feel like “mine” in the same way that physical possessions do? And can they become as personally meaningful? – The Conversation
  
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