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‘This just hasn’t been done before’: art by 40 Black women hits Liverpool

The Walker gallery only had two artworks by Black women out of a 13,000-strong collection. A new exhibition marks the beginning of an attempt to redress the balance

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‘I’m pointing a finger’: Barbara Walker on her paintings about the Windrush scandal and her son’s victimisation

As her hard-hitting works go on show in Manchester, the Midlands-based artist reveals the emotional toll of making such political, personal work

The Guardian - UK

From Van Gogh to Le Va, Rego to the Renaissance: the best exhibitions for autumn 2024

From this year’s Turner prize and pioneering scatter art to Monet’s London and Goya’s surreal visions – there’s something for all art lovers

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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

Entangled Pasts 1768-Now review – RA all at sea with its risk-light colonial revisionism

From a pregnant woman tossed from a slave ship to reworkings of Titian and Da Vinci featuring black faces, this show aims to redress the RA’s biased version of art history – but it could all have been more daring

The Guardian - UK

Who is Jesse Darling, this year's Turner Prize winner?

Darling said that he plans to spend the £25,000 prize money on a new tooth, rent and buying friends a drink

Evening Standard

Jesse Darling wins the 2023 Turner Prize

The Oxford-born artist won the £25,000 award for sculptures made of commonplace objects conveying ‘the messy reality of life’, and unsettling ‘notions of labour, class, Britishness and power’

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‘He almost revels in our social collapse’: Jesse Darling is a worthy Turner prize winner

There is a gleeful, thrown-together energy to the artist’s sculptures, which use faded flags, barbed wire and bunting to portray a country on the skids

The Guardian - UK

Turner prize 2023 – and the winner should be…

In an exemplary showcase of this year’s four Turner prize contenders, Barbara Walker’s devastatingly direct Windrush scandal portraits and Jesse Darling’s antic take on broken Britain lead the field

The Guardian - UK

‘The four centuries of slave trade shaped the spectre of racism and are woven into the fabric of global development’

A lasting legacy of racism, oppression and colonialism is laid bare at a powerful exhibition in Cambridge. Confronting it can help us build a more equitable world

The Guardian - UK

This year’s polite Turner Prize show is so nice that it’s hard to hate it

Britain’s biggest art prize has got Eastbourne excited. The way the annual show has been embraced by the community is more powerful than the work itself, writes Mark Hudson

The Independent UK

Turner prize 2023 review: bring on the contenders – and the zombie apocalypse

The art of Ghislaine Leung, Jesse Darling, Barbara Walker and Rory Pilgrim will make you laugh, cry and possibly yawn as they confront the dystopian crisis we’re in

The Guardian - UK

Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance review – a welcome if partial reckoning

Partly founded on slave money, the Fitzwilliam grapples with its past and present in an exhibition that spreads its net wide but fails to get down to the really painful details

The Guardian - UK

Toys, twisted rollercoasters, rooftop fountains: meet this year’s Turner Prize nominees

Barbara Walker, Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Jesse Darling explain what’s gone into their nominated work – from a ‘dysfunctional’ steel rollercoaster to a dramatic fountain splashing water on to the venue floor

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‘Who gets remembered and why?’: the exhibition asking uneasy questions about the Atlantic slave trade

Black Atlantic at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam museum explores how Britain’s role in slavery can be seen through its fine art. Rather than giving simple answers, reflection is its aim

Evening Standard

Turner Prize 2023: Who is on shortlist for the biggest accolade in UK art?

This year’s prize is part of the Towner 100 — the gallery’s year-long centenary celebration of the arts in Eastbourne

The Independent UK

Turner Prize shortlist: Nominees for contemporary art prize includes ‘tender’ tribute to Windrush generation

Nominees were announced on Thursday morning

The Conversation

Why the Turner prize shortlist is a cultural barometer of our political times

The UK’s biggest prize for contemporary art is back. The 2023 Turner prize shortlist has been announced featuring British artists Jesse Darling, Rory Pilgrim, Ghislaine Leung and Barbara Walker.

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The intriguing Turner prize shortlist is a sign of the times

Politics is intimately tied up with the ways the four artists on this year’s shortlist work, and in a divided world post-Brexit and Covid, this is reflected in their offerings

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Turner Prize 2023 shortlist revealed: meet the artists

Today, Tate Britain announced the Turner Prize 2023 shortlist: Jesse Darling, Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Barbara Walker

The Independent UK

Turner Prize shortlist features roller coaster conveying ‘messy reality of life’

The director of Tate Britain Alex Farquharson announced the shortlist on Thursday morning.

The Guardian - UK

Turner prize: pandemic problems and Windrush scandal among shortlist

The work of artists Jesse Darling, Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Barbara Walker will be exhibited at Towner Eastbourne before winner is announced in December

Daily Record

Ambitious plans for outdated Paisley pitches now back on after project snag

The scheme is set to go ahead this year at St James' playing fields after the first plans were deemed “significantly over budget”.

Tribune News Service

Poisons killed beloved owls in Tampa Bay. Can their defenders save others?

SAFETY HARBOR, Fla. — Mark Schocken took thousands of pictures of the great horned owls in Philippe Park, but he didn’t often capture them eating.

Daily Mirror

Armed police hunt for two dangerous dogs after men hospitalised in vicious attack

Police were stopped by two men earlier today who reported they were attacked by two dogs and taken to hospital, sparking an urgent hunt by armed police in the area

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