Benedetti and Marsalis unite to save creative collaboration
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Review – Celts: Art & Identity at the British Museum
Above: Gundestrup Cauldron (detail). Silver. Gundestrup, northern Denmark, 100 BC-AD 1. © The National Museum of Denmark. The Celts, inhabitants…
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Aurea Kevill thinks considering the implications ’is worthy of a law school exam’ Frieze, London’s leading contemporary art fair, created…
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Josh Spero’s Frieze Week diary: Friday
Yesterday, Frieze Week really showed what it was capable of, and I don’t mean in terms of parties and air…
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What’s happening in Marfa, Texas?
America’s premier fine art lithographer is losing his temper: ‘I thought you were here to talk about my work, not…
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Josh Spero’s Frieze Week diary: Thursday
Wednesday is, in theory, a small respite during Frieze Week: you’ve spent most of Tuesday at the Frieze preview day…
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More than 40 years after Donald Judd put Marfa on the map, the Texas art-mecca has expanded way beyond his…
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Josh Spero’s Frieze Week Diary: Wednesday
Frieze London – the older fair with the newer art – and Frieze Masters – the newer fair with the…
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The artist who creates her own reality by crocheting the world around her
It was a few years back that I saw the first piece. It was a bicycle, fully crocheted in coloured…
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Josh Spero’s Frieze Week Diary 2015
TUESDAY Yesterday saw the start of Frieze Week’s marathon sprint: men with Hermès ties or beards (but rarely both) and…
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Street Art’s real political potential is on display at #Art4Peace as part of the Talking Peace Festival
Above: ‘Matisse’s La Danse’ (2013) by Tammam Azzam – Courtesy of Ayyam Gallery ‘I cannot see the point of going…
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A return to the lost parties of club culture
Appropriately, I was looking through photographs when I had the lightbulb moment. This was a few months ago. The Last…
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Review of Prom 39: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
I didn’t manage to make it to Glyndebourne this year and I’m so disappointed but now I’m simply kicking myself…
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Melinda Hughes reviews a captivating Mozart opera that encapsulates all the wonder of the Proms I didn’t manage to make…
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Looted antiquities from Syria – what collectors need to know
London has long been considered a natural market place for the trade in fine art and antiquities and so when…
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Review: Prom 32: Eric Whitacre
Last week in an interview the Eighties DJ and television presenter Noel Edmonds (famed for bringing Mr Blobby to our…
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Book Review: Hotel Living by Ioannis Pappos
Anthony Haden-Guest reviews a neo-Flemingesque depiction of a very 21st century world of business and leisure Stathis, the protagonist of…
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Book reviews: The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth Century Paris by Colin Jones and Debtonator By Andrew McNally
Mark Le Fanu on how smiling overturned a monarchy and Christopher Silvester on a sharp denunciation of our blind faith…
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BBC Proms Review: Prom 4, Beethoven 9, CBSO
The 2015 BBC Proms season is upon us: a quintessentially British festival with a unique atmosphere. The programming is varied,…
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The monumental financial inequality of the Women’s World Cup
As the curtains closed on a thrilling Women’s World Cup, where the US team thrashed Japan 5-2 in a repeat…
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