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• ‘I did it for the experience’: Amoako Boafo, the artist who painted Jeff Bezos’s rocket ship

  10-04-2025 15:41
  
  The Ghanaian’s dazzling work has been blasted into space and inspired a Dior collection. But, ahead of a new show, the ‘future of portraiture’ reveals how he originally wanted to be a tennis playerNot every artist who skyrockets to fame makes it all the way into space. But that was the case for Amoako Boafo who, three years after his big break, painted three panels on the top of Jeff Bezos’s rocket ship. “I’ll be honest, I just did it for the experience,&rdquo
  
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• ‘Freak pictures’: Ireland’s art revolutionaries who were treated so badly one fled to a nunnery

  10-04-2025 13:20
  
  They were artistic trailblazers, bringing modernism to the then deeply conservative country. But Evie Hone and Mainie Jellett faced huge hostility. Now a thrilling new show is celebrating their brilliance – and determinationTwo oils on canvas hang together, strikingly similar, in the first room of the National Gallery of Ireland’s new show. Both titled Composition, they date from 1924 and 1925. They’re cubist still lifes, with the regular, geometric patterns and contrasting col
  
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• Sex, patriotism and Donald Trump cologne: the US adverts that explain the 00s

  10-04-2025 09:00
  The final book in Jim Heimann’s survey of a century of US advertising takes us to a decade where Apple sold a new way of living and mermaids hawked Evian. It’s a ‘swan song’, he says – for his series but also the industry as a wholeAs the longtime editor of Taschen’s All-American Ads book series, cultural historian Jim Heimann has helped chronicle the shifting landscape of commercial artistry through each decade of the 20th century. Now, with a final volu
  
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• ‘Finally we are being seen as contenders’: delight in India as demand for south Asian art booms

  10-04-2025 06:19
  
  As wealth in India has grown, so has the number of arts patrons championing both India’s 20th century modern masters and the next generationFor over seven decades, the masterpiece had gathered dust as it hung in the corridors of a Norwegian hospital. But last month, the monumental 13-panel 1954 painting Untitled (Gram Yatra) – one of the most significant pieces of modern south Asian art – sold for a record-breaking $13.7m in New York.The auction of the painting sent ripples thr
  
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