In 2014 Gillian Wearing made a photographic work titled
Me as an Artist in 1984. As so often, she appears in it herself, in a bespoke and somewhat unnerving mask: on this occasion, as the title suggests, replicating her own smooth features in early adulthood, her more experienced eyes looking out, her hair teased up in a period style. Beside her, meanwhile, is a painting, an anachronistic study in biomorphic Surrealism featuring a pair of distended figures, one with huge red lips, floating in space. Until recently this was the only clue – or, if you like, confession – in Wearing’s oeuvre that, prior to her celebrated photographic and video-based explorations of selfhood and its multiplicities and ambiguities, she had once been a painter. In 2020, though, she fully unmasked herself. Her exhibition ‘Lockdown’, at Maureen Paley in London, revealed what she’d been up to in the early months of the pandemic: a suite of self-portraits in deft oil and limpid watercolour.
“King in the Wilderness” at 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26,
online. The documentary chronicles the final chapters of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life. Free.
• Warwick’s bookstore presents author
Lauren Willig at 5 p.m. Monday, March 1, online. The ticketed event launching Willig’s new book, “Band of Sisters,” and celebrating Women’s History Month with Marie Benedict, Kristin Harmel and Vanessa Riley, includes a copy of the book, an autographed bookplate, a gift and shipping. $35.
• La Jolla LearningWorks presents
“How to Get Your Child to Listen to the Important Things You Say” at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 2, online. Marla Flores will discuss conversation approaches and how to individualize them for children. Free.
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Western art before the 20th-century was dominated by male artists. There had been celebrated female painters, such as Artemisia Gentileschi, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Rosa Bonheur, but it wasn’t until the early 1900s that women began to enjoy comparable success with their male counterparts.
The exhibition features more than sixty works by the four artists
Now a new exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery explores this breakthrough which has been taken for granted for nearly a century. The roots of this lay in the Victorian era, when those born, raised and educated in the later decades of the 1800s were able to seize upon the huge changes in society, occurring during a time of burgeoning modernism, transformation and increasing emancipation.
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Itâs useful to know who should have responsibility for accidents in autonomous vehicles
A framework legal report suggests that the âuser-in-chargeâ of a driverless car ought not to be held responsible for an accident in it. Photograph: Philip Toscano/PA
A framework legal report suggests that the âuser-in-chargeâ of a driverless car ought not to be held responsible for an accident in it. Photograph: Philip Toscano/PA
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Five years ago, I was invited to test one of Googleâs prototype driverless cars on the streets near the companyâs headquarters in California. The car, alive with tech and sensors, navigated the traffic faultlessly and, sitting passively inside it, I could see only a couple of reasons why, by 2020, the vehicles wouldnât be everywhere.