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• Lost Caravaggio that almost sold for €1,500 to go on show at Prado in Madrid

  06-05-2024 14:47
  
  Ecce Homo will be museum’s second Caravaggio, after being spotted on sale in Spanish capital in 2021A lost Caravaggio painting of the scourged and thorn-crowned Christ that was misattributed and almost sold for just €1,500 is to go on show at the Prado museum in Madrid three years after its discovery shocked the art world and made headlines across the globe.The Ecce Homo, which measures 111cm by 86cm, had been attributed to the circle of the 17th-century Spanish artist José de
  
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• Marian Zazeela obituary

  06-05-2024 13:01
  
  Artist who collaborated with her husband La Monte Young on a series of installations aimed at flooding and altering the sensesIt was said that, following their marriage in 1963, the artist Marian Zazeela, who has died aged 83, and the composer La Monte Young never spent a day apart – each day for them consisting of 33 hours and 36 minutes, thanks to a decision to live their lives according to a calendar in which the 168 hours of the conventional week were divided between five rather than s
  
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• ‘A wild cocktail of emotion, politics and desire’: the history of breasts in art

  06-05-2024 11:48
  
  From lactating Madonnas to disembodied orbs, a new exhibition surveys the depictions of breasts and asks – what about the women who own them?Breasts have been a focus in the culture wars of the last 50-odd years. Second-wave feminists casting off their bras in the 1970s come to mind, and then ongoing judgment-filled debates around breastfeeding, and the even more fraught, and recent, hostilities around trans healthcare. Recent celebrations of female sensuality manifested in things like #fr
  
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