Alastair Smart is an art critic at the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph.

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Sumando Ausencias by Doris Salcedo in the Plaza de Bolívar. Photo: © Oscar Monsalve; © Doris Salcedo

‘The Plaza de Bolívar has become a canvas and protesters the artists’

The Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá is the beating heart of Colombia, a place where protesters and artists (including Doris Salcedo) routinely gather

27 Feb 2017

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Detail from Victor Arnautoff’s The Life of Washington mural at George Washington High School in San Francisco.

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The Lovell Telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, Chesire.

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