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On 11 June, just a month before his 89th birthday, David Hockney died at the age of 88. An artist who managed to unite the British intellectual tradition with a deep knowledge of European culture and a distinctive sense of irony, Hockney leaves behind one of the most influential bodies
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Somewhere between the brutalist concrete of Silosi cultural space in Belgrade and the fired clay of a small town of Kikinda, something unusual is taking shape. Pearl Made of Clay is a retrospective of 45 years of the International Sculpture Symposium Terra, presented by Terra Center for Fine and Applied
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Yerevan is not the city you think it is — if you think of it at all. Armenia's creative industries are booming, nearly doubling in value over the last decade. Independent platforms, cross-disciplinary communities, a vibrant art scene: all of it taking shape in real time, in a
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There is a taxonomy of survival that Milan enacts every April. Most people miss it. They are occupied following the scent of prosecco and flashy installations to notice what persists underneath— the city's older, quieter argument for what design means. This year, amid the derivative choreography of branded
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Or how to dress for the Met without looking like museum merch.
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Flying Tiger X RuPaul Drag Race It’s going to be really tough to act fast and catch the latest collaboration between Flying Tiger and RuPaul’s Drag Race. This is the project we needed: a brand with colourful products and a show that brings pure joy to its audience.
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Collaborations between brands and artists have become so popular that if you type “collaboration”, you can see dozens of publications every hour, and it seems that this stream will never stop.
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Tracey Emin’s retrospective at Tate Modern (supported by Gucci) was always going to be a blockbuster and a purpose for cultural tourism. A reason to come to London, or to renew your membership, so you don’t queue. I went with particular anticipation. Tracey is for me an artist
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The first-ever Schiaparelli exhibition in the UK just opened and the corsets alone are worth the trip.
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Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life is at the Hayward Gallery until 3 May. The entire top floor — floor to ceiling, wall to wall — woven from black and red thread. Suitcases, keys, letters, beds, shoes suspended inside. She studied under Marina Abramović in Berlin. Started as a painter, then performance, then