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• Artist Lindy Lee quits Creative Australia board after ‘heartbreaking’ decision to dump Biennale pick

  16-02-2025 23:31
  
  Lee calls unanimous decision a ‘violation’ of principle of valuing an artist’s voiceFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Creative Australia board meeting that led to Lebanese-Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi being dumped as the nation’s representative for the 2026 Venice Biennale was “fraught and heartbreaking”, the artist Lindy Lee has revealed.On Monday the federal arts funding o
  
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• Every Show Canceling, Or Being Actually Canceled, At The Kennedy Center

  16-02-2025 22:30 via washingtonpost.com
  It’s not just artists canceling their shows: “A National Symphony Orchestra concert described as a ‘celebration of love, diversity, and the vibrant spirit of the LGBTQ+ community’ that was scheduled to take place during World Pride 2025, has been removed from the website.”– Washington Post
  
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• ‘It’s not a bubble’: Indigenous art comes to London after post-Venice backlash

  16-02-2025 17:44
  
  Curators and artists say this is a time of overdue recognition but others are cautious about the longevity of the momentAt last year’s Venice Biennale, the pavilions were packed with Indigenous art from around the world.Artists from the Tupinambá community in Brazil sat alongside work by the late Rosa Elena Curruchich, who made pieces about Indigenous women in Guatemala. The Amazonian artist Aycoobo was celebrated, as were carvings by the Māori artist Fred Graham. The eventual
  
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• Embrace of Indigenous artists reaches London thanks to influence of Venice Biennale

  16-02-2025 17:44
  
  Curators and artists say this is a time of overdue recognition but others are cautious about the longevity of the momentAt last year’s Venice Biennale, the pavilions were packed with Indigenous art from around the world.Artists from the Tupinambá community in Brazil sat alongside work by the late Rosa Elena Curruchich, who made pieces about Indigenous women in Guatemala. The Amazonian artist Aycoobo was celebrated, as were carvings by the Māori artist Fred Graham. The eventual
  
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• Those Passions by TJ Clark review – a timely study of the connection between art and politics

  16-02-2025 14:00
  The British art historian’s essays demonstrate a wide erudition but suffer from his relentless scrutinisingPolitics runs through the history of art like a protester in a museum with a tin of soup. From emperors’ heads on coins to Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece, Guernica, and Banksy’s street art, power and visual culture have been closely and sometimes combustibly associated. This relationship is explored in essays by the distinguished art historian TJ Clark, professor eme
  
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• The week in art: Goya to Impressionism; Linder: Danger Came Smiling – review

  16-02-2025 10:00
  
  Courtauld Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London
  Permitted to leave Switzerland for the first time, 25 masterpieces lovingly acquired by collector Oskar Reinhart surprise at every turn. Plus, pioneering British artist Linder Sterling at full stretchThere are not many portraits you wait all your adult life to see, but so it is with A Man Suffering from Delusions of Military Rank, painted by Théodore Géricault some time after The Raft of the Medusa in 1819. This shattering image of a man w
  
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