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As an Emily Kam Kngwarray survey opens at Tate Modern this week, contemporary Indigenous artists are finally taking centre stage in the UK

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And while there are “reckonings with colonial histories”, she says, “there’s a lot of institutional critique [of the kind] that we’ve seen in a lot of conceptual art, and art historical references [too].”

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4,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian handprint discovered by Cambridge museum

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Researchers working on the museum’s forthcoming show Made in Ancient Egypt (3 October-12 April 2026) made the discovery on the base of a “soul house”—a model of a building rendered in clay. Soul houses” date back to Egypt’s First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom (around 2055 BC–1650 BC), and are often found at burial sites.

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Highlights from New York’s Upstate Art Weekend 2025

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These range from mailboxes made of bread by Brent Owens to ceramic amphibians by Dasha Bazanova. It includes a spooky assortment of objects, like ceramic spiders by Heidi Lau and dynamic mannequins by Anna-Sophie Berger. Curated and helmed by the artist Amelia Biewald, artist talks are scheduled for 18, 19 and 20 July at 4pm.