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Why London’s new slavery memorial is so important: ‘The past that is not past reappears, always, to rupture the present’

In 2026, a new memorial to the 12.5 million enslaved people transported to the Americas and Europe – and their descendants – will be unveiled on West India Quay in London’s Docklands.

The Conversation · Sep 17, 2024

Michael Craig-Martin review – sorry, but these lamps and filing cabinets just aren’t that interesting

His early conceptual work inspired the likes of Damien Hirst, but the RA has inexplicably focused on his cool and clinical representations of the ordinary stuff of modern life

The Guardian - UK · Sep 17, 2024

Michael Craig-Martin at the Royal Academy review: inescapably joyful

This career-spanning retrospective of the much-loved tutor to the YBAs combines playfulness with serious conceptual ideas

Evening Standard · Sep 17, 2024

‘Every face tells a story’: Teresa Margolles on putting 726 trans lives on the fourth plinth

The artist has a studio attached to a morgue in Mexico City and uses fluids from corpses to make art. She talks about her latest project – placing the face casts of trans people in a giant cube in Trafalgar Square

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2024

Marine art deepens our understanding of the oceans – here’s how it has evolved through the centuries

From seascapes and ship portraits to underwater wildlife and coastal scenes, artworks on display this month at the Royal Society of Marine Artists Annual Exhibition 2024 illustrate the diversity of marine art.

The Conversation · Sep 16, 2024

'Rare' Robert Burns statue found in South Africa finds new home in Stirling

A RARE cast-iron statue of Robert Burns which was discovered in a compost heap in the 1950s in South Africa has returned to Scotland...

The National (Scotland) · Sep 16, 2024

Exclusive archive images spotlight Flos’ most iconic lamps and their creators

Flos presents ‘Icons’, a visual story featuring 12 key lamps designed by great masters of design for the Italian lighting specialist

Wallpaper · Sep 16, 2024

The Cumbrian barn-stormer: is Kurt Schwitters’ last masterpiece finally about to be restored?

The dada artist fled the Nazis and settled in a Lake District barn, which he turned into an astonishing work of art. We meet the replica-making craftsman hoping to make it whole again – and create a colony of artists in its luscious lakeland surroundings

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2024

A new start after 60: it took 70 years to find my inner artist. At 82, I’m in my studio every day

Former nurse Norma Geddes took a 10-day stained-glass course on a whim and found her passion. Now she exhibits widely and her work sells out

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2024

Craft exhibition explores politics of Scotland's housing crisis

A NEW exhibition in contemporary craft that responds to the politics of housing, property rights and access to space is to open in Glasgow.

The National (Scotland) · Sep 15, 2024