• We said Doris Salcedo was “the first non-white artist” to be invited to create a work for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern; in fact the first artist of colour to be commissioned for that space was Anish Kapoor, five years earlier in 2002 (“‘Most of my work is a response to some kind of war’”, 12 January, New Review, p18).
• An article described Iceland’s Reform party as “left-leaning”; it is centre-right (“‘We can govern a different way’: the women now steering Iceland’s future”, 12 January, p29).
• Helen Oxenbury’s first solo exhibition, Illustrating the Land of Childhood, will be in the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky gallery at Burgh House in Hampstead, London, not at the venue’s Peggy Jay gallery as an article said (“Drawn together again: after 36 years, Bear Hunt creators team up for a new adventure”, 12 January, p3).
• Mahzad Hojjat, co-author of The Psychology of Friendship, is a professor of psychology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, not Dartmouth College as an article suggested (“10 ways to be a good friend”, 12 January, Expert Guide, p22).
• Paris’s 15th arrondissement is in the city’s south-west, not south-east (“Stranger leaves €10m to Normandy town he never visited in 91 years”, 12 January, p28).
Other recently amended articles include:
A note to No 10: one speed doesn’t fit all when it comes to online safety
Be right on the money: four ways to fix your finances in 2025
Elon Musk and the new world order
Fonda, London: ‘An exuberantly good meal’: restaurant review
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