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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Zak Smith is annoyed that women’s teams, who have just provided so much enjoyment, earn so much less than men…
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Hedgehog 45 on sailing, decorating, giving and drinking
Hands up! Hedgehog has been to young-philanthropist parties. They are, by and large, horrific: stuffed suits impersonating their parents’ grandiose…
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Meeting the artists whose disabilities enrich their canvases
Chuck Close, one of the most penetrating portrait painters of our time, was not somebody I knew well but he…
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Fake or Fortune’s Philip Mould sets up shop on Pall Mall
Within the art world, there are two currents which flow in opposite directions. Galleries selling Contemporary works are rushing forward,…
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Josh Spero explores a gleaming gallery where Old Masters share wall space with much newer fare Within the art world,…
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The Burning Man building temporary temples in Derry
The crowd gasped as the steeple of the 75-foot temple finally succumbed to the flames. The sky was full of…
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The 'Flashes of Thought' that drive Sheikh Mohammed
A new book by the emir of Dubai offers a glimpse of the ambitious philosophy behind the growth of the…
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Exhibition Review: Fighting History at Tate Britain
Above: Allen Jones ‘The Battle of Hastings’ (1961-2), Tate In a society obsessed as much as it is oppressed by…
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