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  • Interview met Sarah Maple

    Sarah Maple likes dressing up. Depending on her mood, and her current obsession, it might be as a big baby, or it might be in a burka. Lately, for her new series of feminist artworks, she has been channelling her inner Disney Princess, donning various shiny nylon costumes – “eBay’s finest!” – and photographing herself hard at work in traditionally “male” environments. There’s Sleeping Beauty performing open-heart surgery in a pink tiara. There’s the Little Mermaid, running a boardroom meeting in tangerine wig and glistening fishtail. And there’s Belle, in a gold, ruffled ballgown, screaming at the ref from the dugout – self-portrait as fairytale football manager.

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  • Twee tentoonstellingen over slavernij

    Jefferson’s relationship to slavery is the subject of an important exhibition opening on Friday at the National Museum of American History here, “Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty.” It was created by the nascent National Museum of African American History and Culture in conjunction with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which runs Jefferson’s extraordinary plantation, Monticello, as a historical home and museum in Charlottesville, Va.

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  • Balbir Krishan, homoseksueel, wordt aangevallen

    Artist Balbir Krishan was hit by a masked attacker, who also damaged one of his works with a homosexual theme, displayed at Delhi’s Lalit Kala Akademi
    Balbir Krishan is not new to criticism. The artist who hails from Baghpat district in Uttar Pradesh has explored human figures in bold, expressive forms and has often created images that reflect his own struggle for homosexual rights, with much difficulty though, given his conventional family background. However, his latest solo show at Lalit Kala Akademi titled “Out Here and Now”,

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