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Disaster averted in exhibition of difficult truths and new ways of seeing

This week: Lubaina Himid curates A Fine Toothed Comb at HOME Manchester, Mildred the cat takes centre stage at Tate Liverpool's new location, Bradford's festival of light and sound

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Laura Davis
Nov 03, 2023
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Lubaina Himid (Pic: Magda_Stawarsk)

THERE’S a moment of polite panic in the gallery at HOME in Manchester when I visit. An elderly female visitor is so distracted by one of the art works that she is about to sweep past the no-go markings on the floor and through Tracy Hill’s fragile piece Surgere. Disaster is imminent.

But this is a reverent space and so …

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