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Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: how US artist Kara Walker transformed a Confederate monument

The sweeping exhibition Monuments, which features 19 contemporary artists, opens in LA on 23 October

The Guardian - US

Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World review – sex, squalor and jungle sweat for an eternal outsider

Artists as varied as Sarah Lucas, Gwen John and Georg Baselitz are called upon by critic-curator Hilton Als to chime with the writer of Wide Sargasso Sea

The Guardian - UK

‘How could you not be body dysmorphic today?’ The twisted selfie sculptures of Christelle Oyiri

She has created bronzes of herself with toned legs, tiny horns, a dissolving head and a monstrous tail. The Parisian artist and DJ, who is the inaugural artist of Tate’s Infinities Commission, explains why

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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

The Guardian - UK

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023 review: my faith is restored, but only after a test

This display of depressing mediocrity is only saved by the work of a few true greats, like beacons in the mist

Evening Standard

Kara Walker’s breakup was in a museum – so I went home and started writing my memoir

The point of reading a book, seeing an art show or listening to an album is to be absorbed – but this can also be bewildering and, at times, dangerous

The Guardian - UK

Kara Walker artworks animating racist tropes of America acquired by National Gallery of Australia, but how will they translate here?

Following the recent acquisition of two provocative works by American artist Kara Walker, ABC's Daniel Browning questions how they might translate in an Australian context.

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Do the circling sharks now stand for Trump? Winslow Homer: Force of Nature – review

His paintings could be strangely clunky yet his vision was staggering – which is why this passionate artist, who captured an America in perpetual peril, still speaks to us today

The Guardian - UK

5 years after their removal, Baltimore’s Confederate monuments are expected to appear in art exhibit in Los Angeles

BALTIMORE — Tucked into the corner of a Baltimore City impound lot teeming with discarded lampposts and street signs, four Confederate-linked monuments have sat for five years.

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A slavery-era instrument is on the National Mall, singing 'songs of liberation'

An old-fashioned steam calliope designed by luminaries in the worlds of art and jazz is on display at the National Sculpture Garden.

WEKU

‘This is rarely taught’: an exhibition examining African-Atlantic history

A landmark exhibition, featuring artists including Hank Willis Thomas and Kara Walker, explores the slave trade and the African diaspora’s cultural legacy

The Guardian - US

What links Louise Bourgeois to Jay-Z’s comeback album?

As the artist gets a London retrospective, take a dive down the rabbit hole via Gwyneth Paltrow’s house and Kara Walker

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