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• Brian Perrin obituary

  13-04-2025 18:29
  My father, Brian Perrin, who has died aged 92, was an artist and teacher who first came to prominence among the new wave of British printmakers in the late 1950s. He exhibited internationally from the 60s to the 80s and his work is in public collections around the world, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.As head of printmaking at Wimbledon School of Art, in south-west London, from 1965 until 1997, Brian created one of Britain’s
  
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• Tony Nicholls obituary

  13-04-2025 17:28
  My husband, Tony Nicholls, who has died aged 81, was a documentary maker, activist and video consultant. During his career, he worked on many hundreds of projects, including TV documentaries, feature films, commercials and education videos.Tony integrated his professional production work with a commitment to teaching. While he worked in higher education, including as course leader in media at Bedford College (1995-2005), he especially enjoyed working with schools and community groups. He was als
  
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• ‘Memories of these places never leave you’: artist Do Ho Suh and the fabric of home

  13-04-2025 15:00
  The internationally renowned South Korean’s diaphanous houses, coming to Tate Modern, embody the emotional imprint of where he has livedWhen Do Ho Suh was a young boy in Seoul in the 1970s, his father decided to build a family home based on a hanok – a traditional Korean timber house with a curved tiled roof. The one he chose as his model stood in the gardens of the imperial palace and had been built for King Sunjo in 1878.“My father was a painter who had modernised Korean art,
  
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• ‘That serene Scandinavian facade, yet there’s terror underneath’: artist unveils design for Norwegian national memorial to 22 July attacks

  13-04-2025 14:00
  A 12-metre high mosaic will show the reflection of a wading bird native to Utøya island, where Anders Breivik murdered 69 people in 2011Fourteen years ago, the heart of Oslo was reconfigured by hate. On 22 July 2011, Norwegian neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik detonated a car bomb outside the office of the then prime minister Jens Stoltenberg, killing eight people and damaging surrounding buildings, before murdering a further 69 people on the nearby island of Utøya.But now the same s
  
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• Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots; José María Velasco: A View of Mexico – review

  13-04-2025 10:00
  
  Serpentine South Gallery; National Gallery, LondonThe arte povera veteran’s passionate celebration of trees risks being eclipsed by the real ones that surround it. And a 19th-century Mexican polymath becomes the first Latin American artist to have a solo show at the National GalleryA tree towers upwards in Kensington Gardens, slender but unimaginably strong, grey boulders perched like vultures among its branches. Another gestures directly to the sky, twigs spreading in eloquent appeal. A t
  
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• The big picture: Sally Mann captures girls on the cusp of womanhood

  13-04-2025 08:00
  
  For her classic series At Twelve, the American photographer created a collective portrait of adolescent girls, including world-weary Olivia pictured in her yardYou can see a whole world – submerged, waiting, ready to burst forth – in the face of any adolescent girl. In Sally Mann’s At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, she captures this special, unstable time of life. In this image, a plaited-haired girl sits in a chair, head in hand like a world-weary grownup. This is Olivia, &
  
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• ‘Very desirable’ rare cast of Rodin’s The Kiss is up for auction

  13-04-2025 07:00
  
  After years in a private sitting room, an early version of the masterpiece is expected to fetch €500,000Auguste Rodin’s sensual portrayal of tragic lovers caught in an embrace before being killed by a jealous husband is one of the world’s most recognised works of art.The French artist had the idea for The Kiss (Le Baiser) in 1882, and the larger-than-lifesize marble artwork emerged a decade later. By then, Rodin was the most influential international sculptor of the age. Continu
  
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