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...Canadian singer, dancer and social-media star Tate McRae is steadily proving a pop culture all-rounder....
...To January 28 2024, tate.org.uk...
...Queer and transgender artists have always made a weapon of Surrealist games of identity and masks, from Claude Cahun’s startling androgynous self-portraits begun in the 1920s to Christina Quarles’ paintings...
...for which she refused chemotherapy as she was pregnant, and much of the work to bring her back into the limelight has been done by her sister-in-law, Bridget Boty, and the curator and art historian Sue Tate...
...Finally it turns to contemporary painters including Laura Owens, Christina Quarles and Salman Toor, who all use digital media in their work....
...When a friend told her to “go on the boards of museums, like the Tate or the V&A; start a lucrative business; and start a foundation”, she put his advice into action....
...Another Tate object is her sculpture “Angel of Anarchy” from 1937....
...Rosie Ripley, retail development manager of Hepworth Wakefield, says the edition of 20 lithographs produced for Christina Quarles’ exhibition sold out before the show opened because of intense commercial...
...Tate.org.uk is a particularly good website, with original films featuring emerging and established artists. I rely on BBC.co.uk, FT.com and NYTimes.com for the news of the day....
...To October 9, tate.org.uk...
...Christina Lamb, foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times. Adrian Lester, actor. Stella McCartney, fashion designer. Ewan McGregor, actor....
...If, in the late 1980s, Christina Christoforou had been friends with the American pop star Michael Bolton, she would have had a gentle word in his ear about his hairstyle, writes Padraig Moran....
...Indeed, the power of one such crowd-puller, Anthony van Dyck, is currently on show at London’s Tate Britain (until May)....
...magazine – or Tate Modern – might be interested? “I am not expecting a big revolution,” she says of the Garage exhibition....
...By the time Tate Modern opened in 2000, his Affordable Art Fair had been going for a year....
...You can, for instance, count the blades of grass that Christina is crawling on as she gazes up the hill in “Christina’s World” (1948)....
...‘Holbein in England’, Tate Britain, London SW1, to Jan 7. Tel 20 7887 8888...
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