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• Brian Thompson obituary

  10-07-2024 17:39
  My friend Brian Thompson, an academic and artist, saw walking as integral to his artistic practice.Brian’s sculptures and drawings were often records and memories of walks in a particular place and time – in Japan, in the Lake District, on the escaped slave routes of the underground railroads in the US, or around the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru. Continue reading...
  
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• Actors’ show-stopping art exhibition: ‘We’re used to rejection so nothing was turned down!’

  10-07-2024 12:25
  
  More than 250 works by 40 stage talents are on display in London for an impressively wide-ranging event that supports the Theatre Artists FundA couple of years ago, two fine actors, Nancy Carroll and Christopher Villiers, found themselves playing minor roles in a movie about a male stripper, Magic Mike’s Last Dance. During the long hours of shooting in a London theatre, they discovered a shared passion for painting. Realising that their profession was filled with artists of all kinds, they
  
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• Mohammed Sami review – phenomenal paintings send depth charges through Churchill’s home

  10-07-2024 12:13
  
  Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire
  The Baghdad-born artist’s paintings tell a counter story to the state rooms of the building – not of the glory of victory in battle, but of mess, pain and traumaThe carpet is the colour of sweaty mince – pasty, anaemic, flecked with greys and browns. At its centre, four chairs are set around a circular table. They are heavy gilt, their backs crested with a baroque emblem – seats for people who like to feel important. Upholstered in electric bl
  
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• Fake Picassos: Mona admits Ladies Lounge paintings were forged by Kirsha Kaechele

  10-07-2024 08:22
  
  The paintings made global headlines after being moved to Mona’s female toilets in protest against a court ruling. But they were never real to begin withFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) made international news last month when it moved paintings by Pablo Picasso to a female toilet cubicle.But on Wednesday, after multiple queries from Guardian Austral
  
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