MoMA explores how African studio portraits offered a new vision of freedom – The Art Newspaper
When young men and women stepped into studio backdrops to have their photograph taken in Bamako, Kinshasa and Accra in ...
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Venice installation celebrates migrants with 100 large-scale portraits – The Art Newspaper
A large-scale installation celebrating migrants’ aspirations and inspired by the work of French street artist JR has been unveiled on ...
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‘It’s all about tenderness’: Gazan artist known for her portraits reportedly killed by Israeli airstrike – The Art Newspaper
A young Gazan artist known for her hauntingly beautiful portraits of people killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was ...
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from Californian counterculture to intimate artist portraits by the likes of Tacita Dean
Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie, edited by Helen Molesworth, Mack and ...
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Philip Pearlstein, whose nude portraits helped revive figurative painting, has died, aged 98
Philip Pearlstein, the artist whose realistic, nude portraits breathed new life into figurative painting amidst the rise of non-representational abstraction, ...
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New series of obscured portraits honour Afghan interpreters’ service in the fight against the Taliban
Identifying details of the Afghan interpreter are carefully obscured, but his portrait is still etched with the story of his ...
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