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• Delightful and disgusting – Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures and Caroline Walker: Mothering review

  16-05-2025 13:52
  ★★★★☆ / ★★★★★
  The Hepworth WakefieldChadwick’s work ranges across media, from molten chocolate to tonsils and intestines, while Walker’s attentive paintings depict maternal pleasure and pain. Both offer startling insight into women’s livesYou’d be hard pressed to find a more alluring opening to a show than this: a bubbling pool consisting of 800kg of molten milk chocolate oozing seductively, filling the gallery w
  
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• Gods arrive from India, myths grow Tinguely and meat gets sensual – the week in art

  16-05-2025 13:00
  A blockbuster show of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist art, a revolutionary marriage and Helen Chadwick inside a washing machine – all in your weekly dispatchAncient India: Living Traditions
  Ambitious blockbuster that shows how Hindu, Jain and Buddhist art assumed their shapes and inspired the world.• British Museum, London, 22 Mayto 19 October Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Napalm Girl’ may be work of different photographer, World Press Photo says

  16-05-2025 10:00
  
  Photo from Vietnam war is now at centre of controversy after documentary claimed it was taken by someone elseThe World Press Photo group has suspended the attribution of authorship for one on the most famous press photographs ever taken, after a new documentary challenged 50 years of accepted journalism history.The photo, officially titled The Terror of War but colloquially known as Napalm Girl, remains one of the most indelible images of the US war in Vietnam. Since its publication in June 1972
  
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