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The Guardian
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- The Guardian
Aussie dots, Tudor pots and nudist shots – the week in art
Emily Kam KngwarrayA survey of this revered Australian painter who combined modern abstraction with maps of the Dreamtime. Tate Modern, London, 10 July until 11 January Lindsey Mendick: Wicked Game The flamboyant ceramicist takes a dive into the world of the Tudors with an installation in a castle once visited by Elizabeth I. Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, 9 July until 31 October Figure + GroundMartin Creed, Sonia Boyce, Paul McCarthy and more in a group show of film and video art. Hauser and Wirth, London, until 2 August Movements for Staying AliveYvonne Rainer, Ana Mendieta and Harold Offeh star in a participatory celebration of body art. Modern Art Oxford, until 7 September Małgorzata Mirga-TasThis Roma-Polish artist portrays her community in bold and colourful textiles. Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, until 7 September It's a marvellous night for a moondance – with the pink dolphins tripping the light fantastic with the local mermaids – in the Amazon. Peruvian artist Santiago Yahuarcani creates his works by applying paint prepared from pigments, seeds, leaves and roots, to large sheets of llanchama, a cloth made from the bark of the ojé tree. His works are often inspired by the hallucinations brought on by the ritual ingestion of tobacco, coca, ayahuasca and mushrooms – substances long used by the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon when in search of help, knowledge or revelation. His show, The Beginning of Knowledge is at the Whitworth, Manchester, as part of Manchester International festival. Read our interview with him here. Sam Cox AKA Mr Doodle is the million-dollar artist who almost lost himself to his alter ego Not all statues of footballers are as terrible as the infamous Ronaldo bust Jenny Saville's raw, visceral portraits are inspiring a fresh generation of schoolkids Indigenous art from around the world is sweeping galleries across the UK A once derelict district of Medellín, Colombia has has been rebuilt as a green haven Khaled Sabsabi will show at Venice Biennale after controversial sacking was rescinded An Allegory, by an anonymous Florentine artist, about 1500 This painting celebrates childbirth and motherhood, but subversively. Mothers were often depicted as the Virgin Mary nursing Christ in medieval and Renaissance art. It was a form of religious manipulation, associating a typical female experience of the age with piety and love of Christ. This woman however lies powerfully and calmly in a meadow while her babies play around her. It is a pagan scene, shorn of Christian symbols. In a pose apparently inspired by Botticelli's Venus and Mars, a strong, even divine maternal figure, who resembles Venus, holds sway over the onlooker. National Gallery If you don't already receive our regular roundup of art and design news via email, please sign up here. If you have any questions or comments about any of our newsletters please email newsletters@
New York Times
04-03-2025
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- New York Times
At TEFAF Maastricht, Indigenous Australian Art Takes Center Stage
In a first for TEFAF Maastricht, visitors to this year's fair will encounter a booth dedicated entirely to Australia's First Nations art. The show is set to feature over a dozen artists, working from the 1960s to present day, providing a broad picture of the contemporary Indigenous Australian art movement. The Indigenous people of Australia have had an artistic tradition for thousands of years, with rock art dated to around 30,000 years ago. What will be seen in the booth, though — from eucalyptus bark paintings, collected in the mid-20th century, to the canvases of Emily Kam Kngwarray and Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri — is adaptation and innovation, as artists began painting for an audience and embracing new mediums. Created against the backdrop of 20th-century colonialism, these artworks assert cultural identity and honor ancestral lands, totems and rituals. The exhibition at TEFAF, March 15-20, is being presented by D'Lan Contemporary, a gallery based in Melbourne, Australia, at a time of surging recognition for Aboriginal Australian art. Last year, the Indigenous Australian artist Archie Moore won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale with an installation that included a huge family tree. Later this year, the National Gallery of Art in Washington will host a large-scale exhibition of more than 200 Aboriginal artworks, which will then tour across the United States and Canada. 'Art has built important bridges between Aboriginal people and the wider world,' said Philip Watkins, a man of Arrernte, Warumungu and Larrakia heritage, and the chief executive of Desart, an organization that represents Aboriginal-owned art centers in Australia, in a phone interview. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
