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• Travellers ‘stuck’ while other minority groups in UK progressed, says artist

  23-03-2025 16:00
  
  Turner prize nominee Delaine Le Bas says entrenched racist attitudes to community persist in UK and EuropeRoma, Gypsies and Travellers have not made as much progress as other minority groups in the UK because of deeply entrenched racist attitudes towards them, the Turner prize-nominated artist Delaine Le Bas has said.Le Bas, who has spent her career exploring themes connected to her Romani Traveller heritage, said that Traveller communities have been “stuck in place” by stereotypes a
  
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• Why are you expected to be quiet in an art gallery?

  23-03-2025 15:01
  The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsWhy are you expected to be quiet in an art gallery? Thierry Dupond, Charente-Maritime, FrancePost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to [email protected]. A selection will be published next Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• Tate Modern at 25: ‘It utterly changed the face of London’

  23-03-2025 13:00
  
  It has hosted a huge spider and a pickled shark – and despite financial pressures, there can be little doubt about the gallery’s seismic impactOpening night at Tate Modern, 25 years ago this May, was the kind of party that defines an era. Stars of the arts world and politics, including prime minister Tony Blair, attended. All of them were dwarfed by a giant ­spider – Louise Bourgeois’s visiting sculpture – perched on the gangway over the vast, packed Turbine Hal
  
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• Brushing up the past: a graceful French home has art at its heart

  23-03-2025 11:00
  
  The couple behind interior design agency Maison MAVI have turned an old villa into an incredible showroomWhen Marine Koprivnjak and Victor Chabaud, founders of interior design agency Maison MAVI, bought their home in the south of France in 2020, they wanted to renovate everything themselves in their spare time. “It was an adventure that lasted longer than expected,” Marine says.They found the house online. It’s a 1920s villa in the centre of a small town the Luberon with countr
  
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• Ian Hamilton Finlay review – the visionary Scottish poet-artist’s mind in closeup

  23-03-2025 10:00
  
  Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two), Edinburgh
  Words and ideas are as one – and at war – in Finlay’s witty, elegant work, from sculptures to screenprints, which are ideally displayed in this intimate centenary showStar/Steer is a masterpiece from 1968 by the Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006). What you see can be simply described. The word “star” appears a dozen times, screenprinted in silver on deep grey. They graduate down the page in
  
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