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• Phyllida Barlow: Unscripted review – exhilarating glimpses of a colossal talent

  27-05-2024 15:52
  
  Hauser & Wirth, Somerset
  This is the retrospective the artist never had in her lifetime, including her last sculpture series. Despite the skilful curation, visitors will yearn for Barlow’s special touchPhyllida Barlow once said that making sculpture had to be adventurous. “Almost on the edge of being beyond my control,” she said. Almost. Whatever the chaos, she was still in charge. Quite what happens when an artist was scheduled to do a show but is no longer with us to make
  
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• Lost Caravaggio that was nearly sold for €1,500 goes on display at Prado in Madrid

  27-05-2024 15:31
  
  Museum’s experts realised painter’s Ecce Homo had been misattributed in auction catalogueFour centuries after it was painted, three and a half centuries after it arrived in Spain and three years after it came perilously close to going under the hammer for just €1,500, a lost, luminous and lovingly restored Caravaggio has gone on display at the Prado in Madrid.The Ecce Homo, painted in the Italian master’s dark and desperate last years, made headlines around the world after
  
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• ‘A small respite in the face of horror’: Sudanese artists fleeing war find a safe haven

  27-05-2024 13:17
  
  An arts centre in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, has given some of Sudan’s best known creatives a chance to work in peace – and find inspiration againAmong the paintings that Nusreldin Eldouma left behind when he fled Sudan is a watercolour portrait showing a Sufi sage, a popular figure from Sudanese folklore. Painted last year – just before Sudan was dragged into war after a power struggle between two factions of the country’s military – it shows the 17th-century sh
  
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• Female artists have always been practically invisible – a groundbreaking show is putting that right | Katy Hessel

  27-05-2024 09:00
  
  Finally, with an exhibition spanning 400 years, female artists are getting their due. How did history get away with depriving us of these artists for so long?There’s a painting from 1857 called Nameless and Friendless. It’s by Emily Mary Osborn and depicts people in an art dealer’s shop like a theatrical scene. Rain pours outside and men are up on ladders, writing down records, or wearing top hats with their faces lit up as they peer over newspapers, all directing our gaze to t
  
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• Damien Hirst and the dates that don’t add up - podcast

  27-05-2024 04:00
  
  Guardian investigations correspondent Maeve McClenaghan discusses her investigation into some of the work of the artist Damien Hirst that has been dated to the 1990s, years before it was actually made. Art critic Jonathan Jones discusses the impact Hirst’s work has had on himThe Guardian investigative reporter Maeve McClenaghan tells Today in Focus host Michael Safi about four Damien Hirst sculptures that were made by preserving animals in formaldehyde that appear to have been dated by his
  
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