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‘I am acutely frightened’: artists talk of fears over a second Trump term

Figures in the art world including Amy Sherald and Marilyn Minter share their concerns ahead of Trump’s return

The Guardian - US

Amy Sherald: ‘Sublimity in Black life can be seen in our ability to persist’

The portraitist, known for her paintings of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, is bringing her first major museum survey to San Francisco and then New York City

The Guardian - US

Hello sailors: what these two kissing seamen can tell us about Kamala Harris’s White House bid

With this luminous painting, Amy Sherald sought to ‘uncensor’ a passionate act that should only ever have been regarded as normal. It came to mind as I watched Harris setting her sights on the presidency

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The Time Is Always Now: Soulscapes review – the Black figure reframed to momentous effect

The presence, and absence, of Black figures in western art is turned on its head in an exhilarating showcase of 21st-century artists from the African diaspora. Elsewhere, some of the same artists reimagine landscape

The Guardian - UK

The Time Is Always Now at National Portrait Gallery review: a stellar, stirring achievement

This show featuring 22 artists explores the complexity and precarity of Black lives as well as their richness and wonder

Evening Standard

The Time is Always Now review – striking shades of brilliant black figurative art

From an escaped slave pointing a gun to a kid in a Birmingham barber shop, this terrific show shuttles back and forth between times, places, sculpture and painting

The Guardian - UK

Design at the White House: the creatives working with US Presidents past and present

Interior designers, fashion designers and artists, whose collaborators have included the White House and its residents, with commissions that range from interior refits to presidential portraits

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Take a walking tour of free art popping up around the Loop

Pegged to EXPO Chicago, we put together a walking tour of four exhibitions for anyone near the Loop in the coming weeks. Each is free.

Chicago Sun-Times

EXPO Chicago 2023 is an indoor-outdoor art extravaganza, from witches to unicorns

As the landmark 10th edition of EXPO Chicago kicks off, Jessica Klingelfuss explores the fair and this citywide art spectacle, from Derrick Adams’ unicorns to a witch-themed group show

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Your essential guide to the best of Frieze

The legendary art fair returns this week with a reinvigorated buzz drawing in A-listers, buyers and, er, Rishi Sunak. Robbie Griffiths reports need to know and, yes, the works of art that have collectors in a whirl

Evening Standard

The art and soul of the party... Your definitive guide to all things Frieze Week

From what not to say at a performance piece to why Tottenham is London’s new hotspot, ES presents the definitive guide to all things Frieze Week. Compiled by Amah-Rose Abrams

Evening Standard

‘Everything I do is saying Black lives matter’: how artist Amy Sherald defined an era

She has painted Michelle Obama and her depiction of Breonna Taylor was called the most important painting of the 21st century. Now, in a new show, Sherald highlights Black subjects who are centre stage in America’s historical moments

The Guardian - UK

The best exhibitions to see in London in autumn 2022, from Lucian Freud to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

How to get your art fix in the capital

Evening Standard

At the Venice Biennale, Art Begins to Leave Identity Politics Behind

The much-anticipated, Covid-delayed global showcase sees artists firmly moving away from figuration and toward a new end: the message.

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The First Lady review – star-studded series is a third-rate disappointment

The series on three first ladies falls flat despite a stacked cast, including Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford and Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt

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