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• ‘My time has come!’: feminist artist Judy Chicago on a tidal wave of recognition at 84

  19-05-2024 11:00
  
  On the eve of her UK retrospective Revelations, the veteran US feminist artist known for her large collaborative art installation pieces such as The Dinner Party – and for dividing the critics – is in celebratory moodOn-screen interviews can be a bit low-key, the victim of time lags and muffled human connections. But not the one on which I’ve just embarked, an experience I can only describe as psychedelic from the off. First to appear on my laptop is Donald Woodman, who sits an
  
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• Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 review – revelations and mystifying omissions

  19-05-2024 10:00
  
  Tate Britain, London
  A Flemish ‘paintrix’ at the court of Elizabeth I, a magnificent mouth artist and a glamorous suffragette are finally given their due in a show tracing female artists’ rocky road to recognition. But the story too often takes precedence over the artMary Delany (1700-88) was a witty memoirist of 72 when she in effect invented the paper collage in Britain. Noticing the affinity between a geranium and a scrap of red paper, she took her scissors and cut a petal f
  
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• Grinding our bums, flashing our boobs: the internet is making juveniles of us all | Martha Gill

  19-05-2024 08:30
  
  When people were offered a window between New York and Dublin, puerile behaviour beat bridging worldsHow will technology change us as a species? In Silicon Valley, all prophesies seem to have converged into one: that it will usher in some sort of planetary Buddhist revolution. To read its mission statements and watch its Ted Talks is to hear phrases such as “connectedness”, “common understanding” and “overcoming barriers”. You could probably pitch a social med
  
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• Out of cold storage: the miraculous rediscovery of Australian art’s most coveted fridge

  19-05-2024 02:00
  
  In 1958 Clifton Pugh was among 11 artists commissioned to paint Kelvinator fridges, but only one – by Arthur Boyd – was known to have survived. Until nowDacre King was reading about the remarkable case of a scandalous Stobie pole painted by the world famous Australian artist Clifton Pugh, which has gone missing. And then he thought about the art in his shed, gathering dust.The collector went and pulled the hulking thing on to the patio of his home in Armidale, New South Wales –
  
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