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Project Intent The City of Lethbridge Art Committee is seeking an Artist to design and fabricate a sculpture to be installed in a prominent Downtown Lethbridge gateway located at the NW corner of 5th…

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Lubaina Himid becomes oldest winner of United Kingdom's Turner Prize

Lubaina Himid, 63, on Tuesday became the oldest winner of the Turner Prize, Britain’s most prestigious yet controversial visual art award, for her works celebrating black creativity. Judges praised the Zanzibar-born artist for the “seriousness of themes she addressed”, paying tribute to the “current vitality of Lubaina’s work as well as the current relevance” of it in three decades past. The winning artist said she felt “like I won it for a lot of people, so that’s why it means a lot. “For all the black women who never did win it even though they’ve been shortlisted. It feels good for that reason.” Musician Goldie presented the £25,000 ($32,000, 30,000 euros) award at the ceremony in Hull, northern England, to mark its year as UK City of Culture. The jury made its decision on the back of Himid’s trio of exhibitions in Oxford, Bristol and Nottingham, which showcased her paintings, prints and installations.

Exhibition in Bilbao analyzes the interaction between spaces and volumes

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Art and Space , an ambitious exhibition based on the creative partnership established between Basque artist Eduardo Chillida and German philosopher Martin Heidegger in 1969 that resulted in the publication of an eponymous livre d’artiste . Updating and expanding on key concepts in the dialogue between Heidegger and Chillida—place, the presence of things, the relationship between art and science, etc.—this show features over one hundred works by international artists and offers a new reading of the history of abstraction over the last six decades. As part of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s special year-long program to mark its 20th anniversary, Art and Space also pays tribute to the boundless capacity of Frank Gehry’s museum to establish singular dialogues between its breathtaking spaces and fundamental works of the modern and contemporary eras. Using key works from the Guggen

Desperately seeking this Frida Kahlo painting. Last seen in Poland

After taking an overnight bus to Poznan in Poland for an exhibition on Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, two Portuguese sisters are now standing in front of a curious blue suggestion box. “Who can tell us what happened to the missing painting or where we can find it?” reads a sign next to a photo of Kahlo’s largest work, “The Wounded Table”, a mysterious surrealist masterpiece that vanished without a trace in Warsaw more than half a century ago. “I wrote that the painting was probably destroyed. Or it could have been stolen and sold on the black market,” says 21-year-old Ines Cavaco, currently studying in the Polish city of Krakow. “For sure. It’s sitting in someone’s living room,” adds her sister Joana, a 23-year-old megafan who did her hair up with flowers in homage to Kahlo’s trademark look. A black-and-white replica of the horizontal oil painting, a double self-portrait with Kahlo represented both as herself and a wounded table dripping with blood, can be seen until Ja

Tapestry talent: 5 amazing artists who weave

The art of weaving has compelled and inspired makers for centuries to push the boundaries of their creativity.

The interlacing of threads to produce woven art can often bring exciting results and its allure appears to be on the rise.

In this article, part of our Discover… series, we remind you of 5 amazing artists working in this field and reveal what happens when the warp hits the weft.

Lucy Poskitt