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Megamurals, Guerrilla Girls and something rotten in the Oval Office – the week in art | Art and design

Megamurals, Guerrilla Girls and something rotten in the Oval Office – the week in art | Art and design

Exhibition of the week Wilhelm Sasnal: family/history The domestic meets the political in these unsettling new paintings of family life and global current affairs (including some greyed-out visions of the Oval Office) by Poland’s leading figurative artist. Sadie Coles HQ, London, until 23 May Also showing Joan Eardley: The Nature of Painting Scotland’s favourite rough, ultra-expressive mid-century painter gets paired with the likes of John Constable, Claude Monet and contemporaries such as Jean Dubuffet. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, until 28 June Tizta Berhanu: Love Is a Practice Soft, gentle, subtle group portraits all about interconnectedness and social closeness by this young Ethiopian painter. Tiwani Contemporary, London, until 16 May Guerrilla Girls The infamously rebellious feminist art collective bring their hypercritical takedowns of art world inequality to this modernist home in the East Sussex countryside. Charleston, Lewes, until 6 September Shane Keisuke Berkery: Shane, Come Back The debut London exhibition for this young Irish-Japanese painter is full of complex explorations of the slippery nature of identity. Carl Kostyál, London, until 3 May Image …

Germany’s Merz sits powerless as Trump attacks European allies in Oval Office – POLITICO

Germany’s Merz sits powerless as Trump attacks European allies in Oval Office – POLITICO

Merz needs close ties with both the British prime minister and Sánchez. Starmer is an important ally in the “E3” format that Germany, France and the U.K. use to coordinate European strategy toward Ukraine. Sánchez, meanwhile, represents the largest faction within the center-left Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament, with whom Merz’s conservatives must reach compromises.  Following his meeting with Trump on Tuesday, Merz said: “There is no way that Spain will be treated particularly badly” on trade as a member of the EU. He also said he had defended Starmer to Trump, telling the president the British leader “is making a really very, very large, very, very valuable contribution in the E3 format to ending the war in Ukraine, and that I consider this criticism of him to be unjustified.” The key, Merz said, had been not to correct Trump in front of the cameras. “I did this behind closed doors because, as I said, I did not want to play out the conflict on the open stage there.” Perhaps the biggest …

REPLAY: Trump says Iran ‘in for a lot of hurt’ in Oval Office address

REPLAY: Trump says Iran ‘in for a lot of hurt’ in Oval Office address

US President Donald Trump welcomed German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to the White House on Tuesday for talks as ​the US-Israel war ‌against Iran widened, sending oil prices to their highest level since 2024. Trump, speaking in ⁠the Oval Office alongside Merz, told reporters the two leaders would speak about the war, adding the German leader has “been helping out.” Source link