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Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art is at the V&A
The first-ever Schiaparelli exhibition in the UK just opened and the corsets alone are worth the trip.
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Thousands of balls of yarn. All by hand.
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
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Five Wings Above the Desert
My first trip to the UAE partly confirmed my expectations and the stereotypes. Yes, there really is probably a combination of taste and its complete absence. Endless space and space for opportunity, construction, the smell of (favorable tax conditions) and musk. Money indeed has a smell. Men is white hand
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Edinburgh and the Science of Mortality
Scotland is its own world, nothing like England. Tartan everywhere, the air smells of hops, Harry Potter and witchcraft shops around every corner, and even the homeless guys drinking beer wear kilts. People are friendlier. The national dish? A deep-fried Mars bar. Not only all the pork things and
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She started painting in her fifties. She's 91 now.
Rose Wylie: The Picture Comes First opened at the Royal Academy on 24 February. Over 90 works, the biggest show of her career. She now lives in Kent, paints every day and puts newspaper under her feet so paint doesn't ruin her shoes. She grew up in London
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Memory, Urban Change and the Art of Yin Xiuzhen
Yin Xiuzhen doesn't use the word secondhand.
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Ai Weiwei doesn't care if you're comfortable
Notes from a sold-out London evening
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The Many Lives of Lee Miller: Beauty, Surrealism, and the Horror of War
I spent two months trying to write about the Lee Miller exhibition at Tate Britain. Only now do I understand why it was so difficult.
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Two Men, One Art: The Obsessive World of Gilbert & George
At Hayward Gallery, the legendary British duo turn their daily lives into a monumental portrait of faith, filth, and devotion.
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Three August exhibitions: one to skip, two that smash
I love London for the way art hides around every corner.
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Between art, perfect places, and pulsating rhythms
Where is home? Who am we?
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A time capsule of life: Leigh Bowery at Tate Modern
I made it to Leigh Bowery at Tate Modern and was absolutely blown away.