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‘We put our heads above the parapet’: Lubaina Himid on winning her 40-year battle to storm the Venice Biennale

In the 1980s, she had to show her work in a corridor by the ICA’s toilet. Now she’s representing Britain at the ‘art Olympics’. So is the artist feeling a bit establishment? Quite the reverse

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Put levy on smartphones to help creatives survive AI threat, top UK artists tell Labour

Open letter to culture secretary also proposes ‘freelancers’ commissioner’ to champion cause of the low-paid

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Everything to see at London Gallery Weekend 2024

London Gallery Weekend 2024 highlights, from Nan Goldin to John Akomfrah, as 130-plus galleries and 70 live events take over the capital (31 May – 2 June)

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Brits, Burberry and the Biennale! What happened inside the British Pavilion opening

As the art world flocks to Venice, Joe Bromley joins the fray for the British Pavilion’s star-studded opening bash and beyond

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8 Highlights from the Venice Biennale

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The moments fashion met art at the 60th Venice Biennale

The best fashion moments at the 2024 Venice Biennale, with happenings from Dior, Golden Goose, Balenciaga, Burberry and more

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Armed guards, reparations and the lives of others: Venice Biennale 2024 – review

There’s less glitz and glamour, more a mood of solemnity at the 60th edition of the Biennale, with revelatory work from Nigeria, Bulgaria and the global south living up to the festival’s provocative subtitle, Foreigners Everywhere…

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Venice Biennale: our picks of the shows to see in Venice from John Akomfrah to Ethiopia's first ever pavillion

The 60th edition of the biggest art event of the year boasts 331 invited artists, 88 National Pavilions, 30 Collateral Events, a new president and the first ever Latin American curator

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Venice Biennale: what you need to know about 'the Olympics' of the art world

The glittering event begins on Saturday with 331 participating artists and 88 pavilions from around the world... let the games begin

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John Akomfrah’s British pavilion at Venice Biennale review – a magnificent and awful journey

The artist’s nightmare of colonial exile, ecology and globalisation – recurring endlessly over six interconnected video installations – leaves you unsettled, unhinged and gasping for air

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‘Not even a pipe dream’: John Akomfrah represents Britain at Venice Biennale

Founder of Black Audio Film Collective says he would have laughed if someone had said he’d someday be in the UK pavilion

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Venice Art Biennale 2024 enters its last few weeks: here's what to see before it closes

The Venice Art Biennale (20 April - 24 November 2024), will soon be winding down. Don'r miss these highlights around Venice

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‘War, refugees, destruction’: colonialism and conflict key themes of Venice Biennale

This year’s ‘Olympics of the art world’ features many artists wrestling with ideas of colonialism and its lingering influence

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John Akomfrah explores the sonic for the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024

We spoke with John Akomfrah ahead of the 60th Venice Biennale on what to expect from his British Pavilion

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‘Another layer of pigment needed adding to the canvas’: artist John Akomfrah on changing the narrative, from Windrush to colonialism

As he prepares to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale, Akomfrah talks about fleeing Ghana aged nine, the Rwanda fiasco, and creating images that shift the dial

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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

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John Akomfrah: Arcadia review – celebration of Mayflower overwhelms the senses

Akomfrah, who is set to represent Great Britain at next year’s Venice Biennale, tackles conquest, plague and death with this five-screen installation. But there is too much going on to concentrate

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‘He showed our lives in ways that had never been seen’: Horace Ové, pioneer of black British cinema

As the BFI dedicates a new season to his ‘radical vision’, friends, family, colleagues and contemporaries remember the director and explain the revolutionary and liberating force of his films

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John Akomfrah to represent Britain at Venice Biennale

The artist known for exploring racial injustice, migration and climate crisis in his films and multiscreen installations will fill the British pavilion next year

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Destination masterpiece: 75 great artworks to see across the UK

From a Nubian god in Edinburgh to a Banksy in Bristol, our critics choose the most intriguing and important paintings, sculptures, installations for you to take in this summer

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John Akomfrah on Stuart Hall: ‘When I first read him, I thought he was white’

The artist is revisiting his three-screen film about the legendary thinker and activist, which takes in jazz, Vietnam, and the family trauma that haunted Hall

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