Lois Mailou Jones led a long and prolific life as an artist, capturing an extraordinary range of subjects in her paintings.

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They are often disparaged as ugly, sly and cruel scavengers but for South African artist Hannelie Coetzee, hyenas are symbols of female power and the normalisation of queerness. The walls of her ...

They are often disparaged as ugly, sly and cruel scavengers but for South African artist Hannelie Coetzee, hyenas are symbols of female power and the normalisation of queerness. The walls of her ...