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Hamra Abbas: Cities
Kuwaiti-born artist Hamra Abbas was educated in Lahore and Berlin, and now divides her time between Boston and Islamabad. The works on display at the Green Cardamom gallery until 21 October explore issues of religion, sexuality and power, and how they relate to notions of place. Paradise Bath (2009) is a set of photographic prints that record a performance in Thessaloniki, Greece, where Abbas gave a local woman a "Turkish bath". Love Yourself (2009) incorporates sex toys into brightly coloured vibrating little bombs, missiles and bullets. And in Cityscapes 1 (2010), Abbas responds to calls for a ban on minarets in some German and Swiss cities by digitally removing the minarets from images of Istanbul.
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No Naughty Bits
In December 1975, Monty Python's Flying Circus was broadcast right across the US. There was just one problem: somebody had cut out all "the naughty bits"! When Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam flew to New...