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Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium

, with the curator Lydia Yee, and talk to one of the ten artists, Tschabalala Self. And we look at the

Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social Media

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Tschabalala Self is one of ten artists in the Whitechapel's Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium exhibition 

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Tschabalala Self and radical figurative painting

The US artist discusses figurative painting ahead of her Whitechapel show; plus, why pregnancy was rarely depicted in the art of the past