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• ‘Power and simplicity: South African photographer wins Deutsche Börse prize

  15-05-2025 21:10
  Lindokuhle Sobekwa praised for work exploring the loss of his half-sister in the wider context of post-apartheid lifeThe South African photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa, whose experimental work has been praised for its “power and simplicity” and explores family ties, myth and post-apartheid life, has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize 2025.Sobekwa was awarded the £30,000 prize, one of the most prestigious in the industry, at the Photographers’ Gallery
  
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• ‘Love, hope, community and resistance’: ACLU to unveil 9,000 sq ft quilt for trans rights

  15-05-2025 19:25
  Giant quilt with messages of hope for the trans community is now arriving in DC at a particularly troubling time“It would be a lie if I said I wasn’t anxious,” Abdool Corlette said while discussing his latest project with the American Civil Liberties Union, Freedom to Be. An award-winning film-maker and head of brand at the ACLU, Corlette has been working for nearly two years with hundreds of trans people across the country to create a 9,000 sq ft quilt, composed of 258 panels
  
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• Melania Trump statue disappearance investigated by Slovenian police

  15-05-2025 17:13
  The bronze figure, which replaced a wooden statue destroyed by arson in 2020, has been taken from SevnicaThe first Melania Trump statue in her native Slovenia was destroyed by fire and now its bronze replacement has gone missing, prompting a police investigation.The lifesize bronze statue of the US first lady was unveiled near her home town of Sevnica in 2020, towering over a field on a tree stump, after arson had destroyed the previous wooden one. Continue reading...
  
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• Lovers, haters, rivals and chums – Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists review

  15-05-2025 16:53
  Pallant House Gallery, ChichesterWhat happens when artists paint artists? From Lucian Freud and Celia Paul to Lubaina Himid and Claudette Johnson, this cracking show provides absorbing insightsStanding in front of Frank Auerbach’s quietly harrowing charcoal portrait of Leon Kossoff and Kossoff’s own heavily textured, dour portrait of Auerbach, I felt as if I was caught between the gazes of the two artists. Caught in the balance of their stares, seeing the way each sees the other, I w
  
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• Breast pumps, babygrows and unfinished drinks: the stunning parenting paintings every mother should see

  15-05-2025 12:14
  From intimate panels to breathtakingly cinematic canvases, Caroline Walker explains how she set out to capture the many sides of motherhood, right down to the first nappy change Ten years ago, when the Scottish painter Caroline Walker was in her early30s, she noticed something happening to her artist friends who were having babies. “They were suddenly taken less seriously,” she says. At the time, she didn’t have children of her own, and she was sure that if she ever did, her li
  
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• Nude latex suits, wearable beds and farting swamps: the transgressive art of Helen Chadwick

  15-05-2025 09:00
  A rare retrospective of the late British artist reveals her lifelong dedication to disrupting the boundaries of gender, sex and death via bawdy, provocative sculptures and collagesHelen Chadwick, who died unexpectedly in 1996 at the age of 42, has long been an artist more name-checked than exhibited. Her devotees include the lauded feminist mythographer Marina Warner, for whom she’s “one of contemporary art’s most provocative and profound figures”. Yet she is habitually r
  
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• Your chance to stare down a god: inside the British Museum’s mesmerising look at Indian religions

  15-05-2025 06:00
  A show full of deities, snakes and shrines puts three ancient faiths in the spotlight. Our writer seeks out its inspiration in the bustling metropolis of MumbaiIt’s the eyes that stay with you – piercing black discs that seem to vibrate against the intense orange of a goddess’s skin. The rest is a blur of silver, yellow and saffron as temple attendants encourage you to move, clockwise, around the murti, or sacred statue. For a moment it’s as if this shrine is the one fixe
  
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