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A Mexican artist whose work powerfully and sometimes bloodily shines light on the violence of drug-related organised crime in her country has been shortlisted to produce work for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
Organisers of one of the world’s most prestigious contemporary public art commissions revealed a shortlist of six artists. Two will be chosen and announced in the summer, with their work unveiled in 2022 and 2024.
Teresa Margolles is one of the six, along with Nicole Eisenman, Samson Kambalu, Goshka Macuga, Ibrahim Mahama and Paloma Varga Weisz.
Announcing the names, the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the list of artists was strikingly international. “The fourth plinth is one of the flagship contemporary art commissions in the world and I look forward to seeing how these artists will transform it.”
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Munch gave museum some welcome PR
February 27, 2021
Norwegian painter Edvard Munch and his most famous work
The Scream provided some welcome publicity for Oslo’s new but still-unopened National Museum last week. The museum’s press release about his “hidden graffiti” on its version of
The Scream seemed to grab more attention around the world, though, than it did at home.
A combination of infrared photography and handwriting analysis led curators to conclude that artist Edvard Munch had scribbled a sarcastic sentence in pencil on the version of his
Scream that’s in the National Museum’s collection. PHOTO: National Museum
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Final secret of Edvard Munchâs âThe Screamâ revealed
A barely legible phrase scribbled on a modern masterpiece gives new insight into the private thoughts of one of the worldâs great painters.
Researchers in Norway used infrared photography to analyse the mysterious words scrawled on Edvard Munchâs âThe Screamâ. Â
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The Scream, from 1893, is one of the worldâs most famous paintings, but for years art historians have mostly ignored a tiny inscription, written in pencil, at the upper left corner of its frame, reading: âCould only have been painted by a madmanâ.