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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jonathan Jones

Blue Black portraits, electric light relief and sugar in space – the week in art

a detail of Protection, 2024, by Claudette Johnson.
Enigmatic … a detail of Protection, 2024, by Claudette Johnson. Photograph: Courtesy the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London

Exhibition of the week

Claudette Johnson: Darker Than Blue
The enigmatic portraits of this Turner-nominated artist hold you and haunt you with their mixture of careful observation and conceptual suggestiveness.
• Barber Institute, Birmingham, 22 June to 15 September

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