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Full disclosure: self-portrait artist Celia Paul opens up in Warsaw
"It feels like a crisis every time I pick up a brush and paint, it's life or death." There's no sense of exaggeration or drama when Celia Paul talks about her work but her paintings speak volumes about, tenderness, spirituality and the people she loves most.
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Remembering Martin Parr: Britain's 'national photographer'
Tributes have been paid to the great British photographer Martin Parr who died last weekend aged 73. Famous for his often humorous takes on everyday life, in this special edition of European Lens, Damiani Books CEO Silvia Pesci looks back at their partnership and his unique way of capturing culture.
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How a 2008 sketch became Doha’s striking new M.F Husain Museum
Doha has opened the M.F. Husain Museum, a vibrant new space based on a sketch the Indian modernist artist created in 2008. Designed by architect Martand Khosla, the museum displays six decades of Husain’s work, from early pieces to his later creations inspired by Arab civilisation.
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Artist Benjamin Von Wong makes plastic fantastic for climate change
Benjamin Von Wong is a Canadian artist who has been turning plastic waste into spectacular constructions with global impact for a decade. Euronews Culture spoke with the environmental activist about his fight to use recycling to bring about climate change policies.
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Public art transforms Kyiv train station on Ukraine’s Independence Day
Lesia Khomenko’s new painting at Kyiv’s main train station honours the people sustaining the country’s war effort – soldiers, medics, railway workers – and reclaims public art as a powerful tool of civic memory and resistance.
