Tag: UK Culture
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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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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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Buy a masterpiece for 67p! New stamps by Tracey Emin, Yinka Shonibare, Grayson Perry and more
Tracey Emin drew her dying mother, Grayson Perry honoured Warhol, and Yinka Shonibare sneaked a bit of Africa into some English brollies … artists reveal all about their dazzling new stamps
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Build your own Adjaye: starchitects design catalogue homes
Want a home designed by a top architect on an affordable budget? Entrepreneurs Cube Haus may be moving in on your neighbourhood, with the help of David Adjaye and more
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Top of the pots: the smashing rise of ceramics
Record auction prices, pottery classes bursting at the seams, Instagram superstars and innovative young artists … what’s behind the boom in all things clay?
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Damien Hirst hates sausages! How Instagram became art’s new playground
Twisted selfies from Cindy Sherman, strange fruit from Wolfgang Tillmans, skull revelations from Damien Hirst … as artists muscle in on the app, what have we learned about them?