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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Skye Sherwin
Helen Chadwick, who died unexpectedly in 1996 at the age of 42, has long been an artist more name-checked than exhibited. Her devotees include the lauded feminist mythographer Marina Warner, for whom she’s “one of contemporary art’s most provocative and profound figures”. Yet she is habitually relegated to a footnote within British art: one of the first women to be nominated for the Turner prize in 1987 and an outstanding teacher of YBAs such as Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Skye Sherwin
In 1975, when Mao Ishikawa was in her early 20s, she took a job in a bar frequented by Black American GIs stationed at Camp Hansen, in Okinawa. She had grown up hating the Americans who controlled her home island and, to this day, maintain military bases there. Yet she found kindred spirits among the soldiers and her fellow barmaids, with whom she lived and loved and also photographed.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Skye Sherwin
Ken Kiff was a brilliant odd one out in post-second world war British painting. In works that sing with colour and texture, he crafted wibbly-wobbly fables in which eyes and noses slide around faces, animals tower over mountains and dreaming, desiring, questing men are rendered poignantly goofy.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Skye Sherwin
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Skye Sherwin
When Henri Matisse described his work as “in step with the future”, he was thinking about his revolutionary cutouts, made with collaged coloured paper, rather than, say, the evolution of the women’s movement or consumer culture. The leading Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury came of age with the latter, but when she was invited to select drawings and cutouts from the Matisse estate for an exhibition, she was struck by the enduring immediacy of his vision.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
msn.com | Skye Sherwin
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Skye Sherwin
As a child growing up in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1930s and 40s, John Lyons’ imagination was electrified by his homeland’s folklore, beliefs and rituals. There was the jumbie-owl, a ghost bird or harbinger of death, who flew between the world of spirits and the living, and the soucouyant, an elderly woman who wreaks havoc as a flying nocturnal fireball-vampire.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
msn.com | Skye Sherwin
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
msn.com | Skye Sherwin
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Skye Sherwin
It is tempting to see it as a happy ending. In Diedrick Brackens’s Ttowards the greenest place on earth, two Black men in the artist’s signature silhouette form throw an arm about each other’s waists, while holding opposite ends of a broom. Perhaps they’re about to enact the wedding folk ritual and jump backwards over the besom, or fly away on it like witches.
