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Hidden women: Madrid show puts forgotten artists in the picture

Maestras explores how talented female artists won recognition in their lifetimes, only to find their works written out of the canon

The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2023

Roger Owen obituary

Other lives: Art teacher and potter whose work was shown in galleries across the south-west of England

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2023

Bust of John Gordon could fetch £2.5m – if Highland town agrees to sale

Proceeds from potential sale of Edmé Bouchardon’s 18th-century sculpture could be used for community projects

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2023

‘This is our reality’: the Ukrainian artist putting bomb-blasted roads in a gallery

Some artists use paintbrushes. Zhanna Kadyrova uses an AK-47. And for her latest show, she braved unexploded mines to turn the shrapnel-hit roads of a formerly occupied town into astonishing art

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2023

Che Guevara’s lucky Irish cigar lighter among historical items up for auction

Other items include a bible Michael Collins had when he was assassinated, a newly discovered copy of a speech by Wolfe Tone and Phil Lynott’s guitar.

The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2023

Shepherd Ndudzo's celebrated sculptures tell an untold history of southern African art

The work of award-winning Zimbabwe-born sculptor Shepherd Ndudzo is instantly recognisable. Fluid, elongated black bodies and body parts flow from white rock in a typical work. The bodies are dancing or praying, holding hands or reaching out.

The Conversation · Oct 29, 2023

Stuart Duffin's latest exhibition speaks to the tragedy in Gaza

Stuart Duffin RSA (master printmaker and member of the Royal Scottish Academy) has every right to hold very mixed feelings about A Redder Sun, his…

The National (Scotland) · Oct 29, 2023

Typist Artist Pirate King review: warm-hearted portrait of outsider artist Audrey Amiss

Carol Morley’s fictionalised portrait of an overlooked British artist is generous to its subject but disjointed as a film

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2023

No one can draw from life like David Hockney – but more than ever are trying

Growing numbers of hobbyists are attempting to emulate the artist and capture the truths of the human body at life drawing classes

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2023

Seeds of potential: the Caribbean women reviving a dying art

Seed work was first practised by enslaved African women in Antigua and Barbuda. With few artisans left, efforts are under way to preserve it in a way that empowers younger generations

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2023