Alison Wilding is running late. Her cat brought a bird into the house this morning (“Dead or alive?” I ask, to which she responds, “Neither”) and she couldn’t face wringing its neck.
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The first Buckingham Palace fitting fashion designer David Sassoon ever did was a bridesmaid dress for the eight-year-old Princess Anne.
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JJ Levine’s Alone Time 19, taken in 2021, appears to be a conventional portrait of a traditional nuclear family: mother, father, two children, all gathered in a living room.
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Nothing is too ambitious or outlandish for Artangel, the organisation that has spent 30 years bringing unpredictable art to unexpected locations in the UK and beyond.
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There’s a lot – a lot of images and a lot of labels – but take your time and you’ll be duly rewarded.
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I’m early, but the gallery receptionist tells me that Stanley will be right down. Right down from where, I wonder.
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Somaya Critchlow knows that we’re supposed to be moving away from making images of naked female bodies. But her paintings express the appeal of stripping a figure bare.
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“Imagine you’re on a bike, as opposed to a car, a train, or a plane,” says Tschabalala Self. “Imagine how the world appears, how quickly and easily you’re able to move through it.”
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Some exhibitions grab you with both hands. Very Private? is one of them, which is fitting, given all the grappling, clutching and caressing taking place on the walls.
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Zoë Buckman’s uterus has been doing the rounds on social media. The Brooklyn-based artist made the kinetic sculpture in the run-up to the 2016 US election, amid conversations about contraception, abortion and rape.
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The first thing that hits me when I see Damien Hirst’s Cherry Blossoms isn’t the scale (monumental) or the palette (psychedelic) but the paint itself. It’s thick, sticky and a little bit nasty.
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It began with a tweet. Nicole Tersigni was scrolling through Twitter when she stumbled upon a man explaining one of her friend’s jokes back to her – something she’d experienced several times herself – and decided to make a joke of her own.
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The dedication in Eliza Clark’s Boy Parts sets the tone for the tale that follows: “For my mother and father. Please don’t read this.” The novel, a debut by the 26-year-old from Newcastle, will make most readers howl with laughter and/or shut their eyes in horror.
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Reading Korean author Bae Suah’s Untold Night and Day feels like a tumble into a surrealist painting. Just as you think you’ve found your footing, time melts away and the line between reality and dreams becomes fluid.
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Before answering my questions about his new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York-based artist Darren Bader says that he has a specific (read: irreverent) style and he hopes it’s not too much of an annoyance.
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I'm sitting on a beanbag in a dark room, staring at a split-screen scored with apple-green blips and streaks of light that – much like a heart monitor – record signs of life.
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This exhibition at Pallant House Gallery tells the story of a group of early-20th-century female artists in Britain who engaged in progressive art, literature and politics.
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Geta Brătescu sits at her desk clutching a chunky black marker pen in her heavily wrinkled hand. “Let’s see what I’m doing now,” she says, the square nib traversing the paper in one long continuous line.
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“Absolutely you should go – but with a time machine." That was 2manydjs' David Dewaele's answer to the question: is Ibiza still worth a visit today? Time-travel might be a stretch, but a mooch around Ibiza: Moments in Love rolls back the years.
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