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69 m. ago A Story of South Asian Art review – banging sculpture marred by dreary neighbours

Royal Academy, London Mrinalini Mukherjee’s surreal spins on Indian folk and sacred art are powerfully fascinating, but they gain nothing from works shown with them hereAs you enter the galleries you can’t avoid the slobbish giant. Maybe it is drunk or drugged as it towers and slumps, a red and brown creature with a demonic face and sagging stomach. If the cord suspending it from the ceiling snapped it would just be a pile of hemp on the floor.This monster has all the qualities that make the art of Mrinalini Mukherjee, who was born in Mumbai in 1949 and died in 2015, funny, fascinating and surreal. She created it in 1985, making it, like many of her works, with tightly woven, intensely coloured natural fibres. It is called Pakshi, meaning bird, and now I see it, the feathery flanks and floppy wings. Mukherjee’s sculpture is a hallucinatory but sharply observed response to nature, full of echoes of the Indian landscape and, in this case, India’s skies. If a bird can become an ogre in...

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Politics

1 hour ago Afghan, 22, arrested on suspicion of murder as man, 49, dies and boy, 14, hurt in Uxbridge triple stabbing

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Events

1 hour ago Murder charge over death of pensioner, 86, the day after he was burgled

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1 hour ago Afghan suspect, 22, held on suspicion of murder as man, 49, dies and boy, 14, hurt in Uxbridge triple stabbing

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2 h. ago Reform’s Kruger vows to change civil service code to ban ‘woke agenda’

The Tory convert said Nigel Farage’s party would cut civil service headcount and close five government buildings if it won the next general election.

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The YouGov survey showed Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in first place on 27 per cent

Events

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2 h. ago One dead and two injured in ‘senseless’ stabbing in west London

A 49-year-old man was killed in Midhurst Gardens, Uxbridge, on Monday, while a 45-year-old man and a 14-year-old-boy were also hurt.

Events

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2 h. ago Labour hits record low as Greens gain support in London, new poll shows

The YouGov survey showed Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in first place on 27 per cent

Events

3 h. ago New London restaurant Lagana lets you scribble on its tables

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3 h. ago London’s Elizabeth line will soon be transformed by 10 shiny new trains

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