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• Gavin Jantjes: To Be Free! A Retrospective 1970-2023 review – fierce and subtle

  16-06-2024 10:00
  
  Whitechapel Gallery, London
  From post-pop art to late-flowering expressionism, the South African artist is one of his country’s most significant, and this huge survey shows off his extraordinary range
  Gavin Jantjes – pronounced Yanchez – is not a name on many people’s lips, although he should be. Born in Cape Town in 1948, the year the apartheid regime first devastated South Africa, he is one of the country’s most significant artists. But a lifetime’s exile, m
  
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• Rare photographs by Dora Maar cast Picasso’s tormented muse in a new light

  16-06-2024 06:00
  
  London gallery shows intimate images, including portraits of the artist, that reveal a great talent in her own rightDora Maar is renowned as Pablo Picasso’s “weeping woman”, the anguished lover who inspired him to repeatedly portray her in tears. Now a London gallery is seeking to re-establish her as a pioneering surrealist artist in her own right, with an exhibition showcasing photographs recently discovered in her estate.The exhibition, which opens at the Amar Gallery in Lond
  
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