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• Judy Chicago: Revelations review – cosmic cobblers from a pseudo goddess

  21-05-2024 18:16
  
  Serpentine North Gallery, London
  Her cosmological screed is tiresome and her blissed-out female figures are idealised beyond belief. But at least her musclebound men cavort, weep blood and urinate realisticallyI always assumed Judy Chicago deserved the credit for her 1970s masterpiece of feminist art, The Dinner Party, an epochal installation in the form of a triangular table set with places for great historical women, including Theodora of Byzantium, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Virginia Woolf. Thi
  
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• Judy Chicago: Revelations review – cosmic cobblers from a dinner party goddess

  21-05-2024 18:16
  
  Serpentine North Gallery, London
  Her cosmological screed is tiresome and her blissed-out female figures are idealised beyond belief. But at least her musclebound men cavort, weep blood and urinate realisticallyI always assumed Judy Chicago deserved the credit for her 1970s masterpiece of feminist art, The Dinner Party, an epochal installation in the form of a triangular table set with places for great historical women, including Theodora of Byzantium, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Virginia Woolf. Thi
  
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• Gina Rinehart portrait saga: largesse comes at a peculiar cost for Australia’s swimmers

  21-05-2024 17:00
  
  To understand why some Olympians would go into bat for the mining magnate on a matter unrelated to the pool, one need only look at the financial hold she has over the sportMany things have been said about Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person, and not all of them positive. But in the world of Australian swimming, superlatives comes thick and fast. According to Cate Campbell, a four-time Olympic gold medallist, Rinehart “saved swimming”. Her sister, fellow Olympian Bronte Ca
  
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• If we can respect fat bodies in Beryl Cook’s paintings, why can’t we do so in the street? | Lisette May Monroe

  21-05-2024 12:18
  
  Cook’s curvy characters are glamorous, comfortable in their skins and uncompromising. In real life, I am constantly bombarded with fatphobiaWith an exhibition of Beryl Cook’s work having just opened at Studio Voltaire in London, I have been thinking about what it means to occupy a fat body. I love Cook’s paintings and all their chubby glory. They are celebratory, glamorous, from the sassy half-moon of bum cheek dipping out of well-filled leopard-print shorts, to a gaggle of wom
  
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• Gina Rinehart tried to hide her portrait – it went viral instead

  21-05-2024 07:35
  
  Vincent Namatjira’s painting in the NGA of Australia’s richest woman has been seen by millions around the world, appearing on CNN and the BBC and getting the attention of Stephen Colbert and Jimmy FallonIf Gina Rinehart was trying to make sure no one saw a portrait of her, recent moves have had the opposite effect.Last week, media – including Guardian Australia – reported that Australia’s richest woman had demanded the National Gallery of Australia remove a portrait
  
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• Gina Rinehart tried to hide her portrait – it went global instead

  21-05-2024 07:35
  
  Vincent Namatjira’s painting in the NGA of Australia’s richest woman has been seen by millions around the world, appearing on CNN and the BBC and getting the attention of Stephen Colbert and Jimmy FallonIf Gina Rinehart was trying to make sure no one saw a portrait of her, recent moves have had the opposite effect.Last week, media – including Guardian Australia – reported that Australia’s richest woman had demanded the National Gallery of Australia remove a portrait
  
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• How Grantmakers Can Support Artists Of Color

  21-05-2024 00:01 via hyperallergic.com
  
  Historical ideas of what constitutes arts and culture and the roots of racial injustice are being re-examined, and these investments mark a step in the direction of expanding public understanding of artistic excellence and what it means to be an American. – Hyperallergic
  
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