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Suffragette cities: UK women take to the streets to mark 100 years of the vote
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Joan Jonas moves off the land and into the ocean for Tate Modern performance
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Andrew Logan brightens up London’s Elephant and Castle with jewellery parade
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Paint and pronouncements fly as Alfred Molina reprises Rothko in West End revival of Red
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From Shrimp Eyes to Tom Odell: Royal Academy's collection (and VIPs) serenaded at opening party
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‘A primal, erotically-charged mud fest’: Florence Peake’s rite at De La Warr Pavilion
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Three to see: London
From a glimpse of the future at the V&A to a Charles II blast from the past at the Queen's Gallery
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Sparks fly at topping out of Goldsmiths university's new contemporary art space
Podcast
Podcast episode 29: Taryn Simon on grief and mourning
We talk to the US artist about her acclaimed work An Occupation of Loss staged in New York and now London. We hear from a curator and conservator at the Met about resurrecting Moretto da Brescia’s final great painting, and appraise the Turner Prize shortlist.
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Review: Glasgow International permeates city with its distinctively dystopian tentacles
InterviewPublic art
'Courage calls to courage everywhere': Suffragist sculpture unveiled in London
Gillian Wearing talks about creating the first statue of a woman—and by a female artist—in Parliament Square
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Wolfgang Tillmans talks post-Brexit and 'the backfire effect' at London's ICA
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Three to see: London
From Canadian artist David Milne's Modernist landscapes to the chains used by suffragettes to secure themselves to the House of Commons
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Lydia Ourahmane sends out vibrations at the Chisenhale
Patrons and friends felt the tremors of an hour-long soundscape emanating from beneath the floor
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Three to see: London
From Tacita Dean's double-header, including films of David Hockney and fermenting pears, to a Tate Modern takeover by Joan Jonas
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's boozy reading raises funds for the Contemporary Art Society
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Joan Jonas checks out digital double whammy of Ian Cheng and Sondra Perry shows
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Kindred collage spirits John Stezaker and Georgie Hopton talk the dark side of the art form
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Valeria Napoleone spreads the love in support of Alexandra Bircken and London art space Studio Voltaire
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Bravado, bats and giant bugs as Marvin Gaye Chetwynd takes over Sadie Coles
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Russian man suspends himself from a London building in the name of art—and LGBT rights
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From cabinets of curiosities at the Whitechapel to confronting trauma at the Barbican
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Books, trees and live birds: Mark Dion's new exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery
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Three to see: London
From the glitz and glamour of ocean liners to post-Brexit politics by the official election artist Cornelia Parker
FeatureArtist interview
Mark Dion: Welcome to my Wunderkammer
The US artist discusses theatricality, science and the need for a greater environmental commitment in art
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Eddie Peake takes centre stage for new performance show at London’s White Cube
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Crystals and contemplation: Mona Hatoum celebrated as Whitechapel Gallery’s 2018 Art Icon
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Newly refurbished Hayward lights up after dark
Brutalist museum reopens with new skylights and glass pyramids
Podcast
Podcast episode 15: What will 2018 hold for the art world?
We are at the London Art Fair speaking to Georgina Adam about her art market predictions and to Louisa Buck about the top shows and artists to keep on your radar this year
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Condo and London Art Fair openings bring art tribes out in force across the city
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Sophie Jung rings in the new year with a ‘topless’ performance mixing Marxism and Mary Poppins
Podcast
Podcast episode 14: the top stories of 2017
From Louvre Abu Dhabi to Leonardo, Documenta to Trump, we look back at the year with our journalists Louisa Buck, Gareth Harris and Anny Shaw
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Three to see: London
From Rose Wylie’s parade of footballers and royalty to Arthur Jafa’s powerful video collage
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Rose Wylie's painterly energy at the Serpentine
“Her medium is energy,” Hans-Ulrich Obrist says of her work
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Kehinde Wiley talks politics, painting and portraying Michael Jackson as he unveils new works in London
FeatureArtist interview
Gilbert & George’s fuckosophy
Fifty years after they first met, the artists are being celebrated with eight international exhibitions of their Beard Pictures. Meanwhile, a new text work finds them in typically provocative form—it features 5,000 F-words
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Three to see: London
From Pussy Riot's immersive penal colony installation to a final chance to see Francis Kéré’s Serpentine Pavilion
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Bruce McLean interviews himself as he launches his autobiography
He asked himself "ten difficult questions"
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Icelandic songs and ancestral sausages mark end of Peter Liversidge’s Southwark show
NewsFrieze 2017
Tate goes for gender (e)quality in Frieze shopping spree
Frieze Tate Fund picks four works from fair
FeatureFrieze 2017
Let's talk about sex at Frieze
A special section at the fair looks at the “radical feminists” who were once ostracised by their peers
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Vadim Zakharov gives Stephen Fry’s history of classical music a lease of Russian life at the Whitechapel
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Cheers! Twenty years of London's Approach Gallery
East End art space celebrates at the closing of its anniversary show
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Much admiration—and the art of noise—as Tate and Rachel Whiteread kick-off the new art season
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Andy and Peter Holden’s nesting instincts make for an extraordinary installation in south London
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London exhibitions part 2: black rights on both sides of the Atlantic and Middle Eastern spaceship diners
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London exhibitions part 1: female Surrealists reclaim the body, a peek into Matisse’s studio and an exploration of the artist-sitter dynamic
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Boundary blurring, bacchanals and rude food at David Roberts Art Foundation’s last hurrah in Camden
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Voices from the past talk to our present in Putti’s Pudding at Studio Voltaire
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Roll up, roll up to Britain’s first interfaith charity shop on Selfridges’ third floor
FeatureArtist interview
Jenny Holzer: Words of Conflict
As three new commissions open this year in the UK and Abu Dhabi, the US artist reflects on the continued dominance of war as a theme in her work and says she longs for Trump to be “in the past tense”
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A Service of Lament and Thanksgiving in the shadow of Grenfell Tower
Family, friends and fellow artists filled St Mary’s Church in London’s North Kensington to commemorate and celebrate the young artist Khadija Saye
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The sun sets on twenty years of art clan gatherings at the Hydra Workshops
There are many outstanding events in the art world but few as eagerly anticipated as the annual gathering on the Greek island of Hydra hosted by Pauline Karpidas
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Khadija’s Garden named at PEER
In a sombre but heartwarming ceremony PEER art space named the community garden, trees and seating outside the gallery on Hoxton Street as Khadija’s Garden
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Tears, laughter, thunder and lightning to celebrate Jenni Lomax’s 26 years at Camden Arts Centre
Your correspondent rounded off the speeches at the packed party to celebrate Jenni Lomax, who is stepping down as the director of Camden Arts Centre
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Emma Hart keeps all lines of communication open at unveiling of her Max Mara show
The winner of the 2015-17 Max Mara Women’s art prize has unveiled Mamma Mia!, a spectacular installation that fills the Whitechapel’s number two gallery
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Some vintage posing as the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair comes home
The moveable feast came home to Vauxhall, south London
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Parry and thrust and pregnant pauses at unveiling of Frieze Sculpture
The exhibition now runs from 5 July until the closing of the art fair on 8 October
FeatureArtist interview
David Lamelas: time zones
The peripatetic Argentinian artist has explored memory, space and time in works made across the world. In September, his first full career survey opens in Los Angeles as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative
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Serpentine Summer Party goes with a swing and a chill
New CEO Yana Peel partnered up with Chanel
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Mark Leckey offers a cathartic shout-out at Cubitt gallery
For his new show Leckey lead a mass rendition of a sound piece that forms a key element of his new installation
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Conrad Shawcross channels Brexit in his St Pancras International sculpture
The official take is that sculpture is “a celebration of mechanics and engineering”
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Ikon artists serve up Brexit on a plate
Artist-designed fundraising dinner for the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham coincided with the first day of Brexit negotiations
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Venice Biennale: triumphs and talking points
Leading figures give their impressions of Christine Macel’s main show, Viva Arte Viva, and their pick of the national pavilions
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Grayson Perry bites and strokes the hands that feed him at Serpentine preview
Teasingly-titled show, The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! opened this week
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An artistic comb-over at Rosemarie Trockel’s Skarstedt show
Major Greek collection had agreed to loan the artist’s rarely seen Untitled (1999)
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Pinochet Porn premieres at the Institute of Contemporary Arts
Ellen Cantor worked on experimental feature-length film right up to her death from cancer in 2013
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Architectural practice IF_DO show what they can do with Dulwich Picture Gallery’s pavilion
Move over Serpentine, there’s a new gallery pavilion in town
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Goldsmiths ushers in its new Centre for Contemporary Art with monstrous belly worship and some searing sounds
The purpose of the evening was to introduce—and drum up support for—the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art