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• Widening the Lens: using photography to re-examine our environment

  29-05-2024 17:24
  
  In a new exhibition, artists find new ways to look at and investigate their natural surroundings and how they interact with human storiesThe striking collection of photographic art presented in the Carnegie Museum of Art’s Widening the Lens is very much a revision of the long tradition of landscape photography in the US. It may be very directly revising – as in AK Burns’s reinvention of landscape photographs literally ripped from photo books – or it may be much more subtl
  
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• Donald Rodney review – the young dying artist who struck at Britain’s sick, racist heart

  29-05-2024 16:53
  
  Spike Island, Bristol
  As sickle cell anaemia attacked his body, the artist made political drawings on X-rays and used his own skin for sculptureDonald Rodney died as an artist in the ascendant. With Keith Piper, a fellow student at Trent Polytechnic in 1981, Rodney was foundational in the politically acute BLK Art Group, committed to pressing social issues within an art world hung up on form and theory. After the success of his 1989 solo show at Chisenhale Gallery, in 1997 he had an exhibition a
  
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• ‘Billy does an act called Scream Along With Billy’: Jack Pierson’s best photograph

  29-05-2024 16:17
  
  ‘He is the ultimate outlaw, one of the most brash and sparkling acts I’ve ever encountered, performing rock albums in a cabaret style. But I wanted this image to be clean, simple and free of narrative’Provincetown is a fishing village turned art colony at the tip of Cape Cod, a curling peninsula on America’s north-eastern coast. In US terms, it’s an old town, and since the first half of the 20th century, it has been a haven for artists, musicians, queer people and b
  
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• The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’

  29-05-2024 06:00
  
  In the last four years, she has survived an aggressive cancer, opened her own art school – and produced stunning work. And she’s just getting started. She discusses sobriety, suffering and second chancesA man and woman are depicted having sex on the huge white canvas: their bodies outlined in blood-red lines, faces barely there, legs wrapped over and into each other like a chain puzzle. Above the couple, and merging with them, are the words: “You keep fucking me,” repeate
  
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• US returns stolen Italian art worth $65m in vow to put loot back ‘where it belongs’

  29-05-2024 03:27
  
  Italy celebrates getting back 600 antiquities that were taken and sold years ago and recovered as a result of criminal investigationsItaly on Tuesday celebrated the return of around 600 antiquities from the US, including ancient bronze statues, gold coins, mosaics and manuscripts valued at €60m ($65m), that were looted years ago, sold to US museums, galleries and collectors and recovered as a result of criminal investigations.US ambassador Jack Markell, Matthew Bogdanos, the head of the ant
  
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• Netflix’s Plan To Keep You Watching

  29-05-2024 00:01 via nytimes.com
  
  We define quality from the perspective of the audience. So if the audience loves the movie, it’s great. That’s quality. “Irish Wish” maybe didn’t scratch the itch for you, but 65 million people watched that movie. – The New York Times
  
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