Tag: Culture
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Christo: London Mastaba; Tomma Abts – reviews
Serpentine galleries, LondonChristo’s floating installation makes a big first impression, but can’t match the brilliance of Tomma Abts’s canvases
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Van Gogh leggings and Tracey teacups: how art merch broke out of the gift shop
Jackson Pollock socks, Louise Bourgeois eyemasks, Guerrilla Girls air freshener … what’s behind the explosion in art merchandise – and who’s really making the money?
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Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up review – forget the paintings, here’s her false leg
V&A, LondonBy focusing on Kahlo’s life and her suffering rather than her art, this memorabilia-stuffed exhibition stifles her blazing visionary brilliance
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A hot dog bus and a snowman in June: the best in US public art this summer
With skyscraper video art in California and 26ft statue of Marilyn Monroe in Connecticut, there are now even more reasons to stay outside this season
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Serpentine Pavilion 2018 review – steel, shade and a paddling pool
Kensington Gardens, LondonOnly the second solo woman and the youngest architect to win the annual commission, Mexico’s Frida Escobedo has made a rough, tough backdrop for summer frolics
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Yves Saint Laurent co-founder’s rare art and artefacts to go on sale
Pierre Bergé’s eclectic items, which includes 1961 Picasso sculpture, up for auction