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• Derek Boshier obituary

  17-09-2024 19:16
  
  Leading figure of the 1960s pop art movement who was determined not to be bound by labels or market demandsIn Ken Russell’s 1962 documentary Pop Goes the Easel, a quartet of young British artists are filmed dabbling in popular culture: they buy comics at a street market, ride dodgems, dance the twist. One, tall, blond and in a neatly pressed shirt and tie, pours milk into a bowl of cornflakes. “That’s where the infiltration of American culture begins,” he says, gloomily.
  
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• Sculptor Alison Wilding: ‘Some of my works are very huggable. But I don’t want anyone else to touch them’

  17-09-2024 17:07
  She’s one of the UK’s most revered sculptors. Yet Wilding is often overlooked. She talks about making art out of dead frogs, her feminist awakening and why ‘work comes from work’Alison Wilding is running late. Her cat brought a bird into the house this morning (“Dead or alive?” I ask, to which she responds, “Neither”) and she couldn’t face wringing its neck. She put it in a box and phoned a friend, and when they lifted the lid the bird flew a
  
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• Notes from Sheepland review – lovely portrait of artist-farmer who only has eyes for sheep

  17-09-2024 10:00
  
  Orla Barry clearly has a true vocation for her flock, both handling real livestock and weaving them into her art and this documentary has poetic beautyNear the beginning of this beautiful, brooding film, Orla Barry (its subject/writer/narrator) remembers a farming expert advising her to go into cattle or vegetables after she inherited her family spread in Ireland. But really he could tell, she says, that she was “Orla with the ovine eyes” – meaning that her undeniable destiny w
  
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• ‘Flipped universe’ Ladies Lounge exhibit intended to expose gender inequality, Mona’s lawyer tells court

  17-09-2024 09:05
  Lawyer says installation was ‘not about bringing another group down’ as gallery appeals decision ordering it to admit menFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMen and women may be recognised as equal under Australian law, but women still suffer unequal opportunity on a daily basis, a lawyer for Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) has told a court.Mona is appealing a tribunal decision that found the
  
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