Arts news

• ‘Instead of a scream’: the Palestinian artist who does a Gaza drawing every day

  14-05-2024 16:33 via theguardian.com
  
  His studio was flattened, he has had to move his family 10 times, and they now share a house with 25 others. But still Maisara Baroud finds a way to document the fear and destruction he sees all aroundFor years, I have been used to drawing daily and sharing my drawings on social media with friends. I have published thousands of series of drawings, each with its own title and description. I enjoyed doing that. I have made sure that I kept to this daily routine, despite the difficulty of my circum
  
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• Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain review – this changes everything

  14-05-2024 15:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Tate Britain, London
  This tremendous show highlights so many unjustly forgotten, belittled and misattributed works, from 15th century miniatures to Georgian thrillers, Victorian innovators and modern abstractors. What a seismic reckoning
  Not many exhibitions turn the story of Britain and its art upside down. But this huge archaeological dig into the nation’s cultural past, from 1520 to 1920, does precisely that. It retrieves so many unjustly forgotten female artists, so many neglected work
  
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• ‘Englishness with an Italian accent’: Gucci returns to its London roots

  14-05-2024 15:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Star-studded show at Tate Modern honours British origins of the Italian fashion houseOn a picture perfect spring evening in London, 600 guests clutching cherry-red tickets for Gucci’s show at Tate Modern gathered at the museum’s riverside entrance in their finery.They posed with the shimmering dome of St Paul’s Cathedral in the backdrop of their selfies or commandeered bemused cabbies to capture arrivals by black London taxis. An army of loafer-shod champagne waiters escorted t
  
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