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• Larry Achiampong art causes ‘outrage’ after replacing Queen Elizabeth portrait at Foreign Office

  02-12-2025 15:14
  British-Ghanaian artist says media coverage of his work links to growing anti-immigrant sentimentThe artist Larry Achiampong was in the middle of a karate class this weekend when he took a break, looked at his phone and realised he was embroiled in a brewing culture war.A series of news outlets reported that a portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth II taken by David Bailey had been “ditched” for work by Achiampong, Lubaina Himid and Yinka Shonibare, which took its place in the Foreign
  
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• Artist caught up in row over Foreign Office queen portrait speaks out

  02-12-2025 15:14
  Larry Achiampong, whose ‘pan-African colours’ replaced picture of former monarch, calls angle of some media coverage deeply problematicThe artist Larry Achiampong was in the middle of a karate class this weekend when he took a break, looked at his phone and realised he was embroiled in a brewing culture war.A series of news outlets reported that a portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth II taken by David Bailey had been “ditched” for work by Achiampong, Lubaina Himid and Yin
  
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• ‘Was it a woman who bit off his ear?’: the wild life and serene photography of Tom Sandberg

  02-12-2025 01:07
  Norway’s most celebrated photographer made his name with calm, reflective images that sit at odds with his reckless life. Friends and family remember a paradoxical manNorway has never looked as wet as in the photographs of the late Tom Sandberg. There are shots of drizzle and puddles, of asphalt slick with mizzle. A ripple of water appears to have a hole in it, a figure looms behind a rain-dappled window, a gutter glows after a downpour.Shot in either bold chiaroscuro or gentle orchestrati
  
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