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Tschabalala Self brings a striding black woman to the Fourth Plinth, after vandals whitewashed her last UK work

The US artist's new Trafalgar Square commission follows the racist defacement of her sculpture Seated at Bexhill-on-Sea in 2022 - and she says she isn't backing down.

The Artistree · Sep 1, 2026

Art

Yayoi Kusama, dead at 97: the artist the market loved more than the critics did

The Guardian's obituary coverage of the polka-dot superstar reopens an old argument about whether spectacle and substance were ever the same thing in her work.

The Artistree · Aug 28, 2026

Art

The artist who testifies: Lawrence Abu Hamdan's sound evidence for the courtroom and the gallery

The Turner Prize winner runs an NGO that reconstructs killings and torture through acoustic analysis - and insists the work belongs equally to the courtroom and the gallery wall.

The Artistree · Aug 25, 2026