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‘If kids grew up going to London Design Festival they would learn so much’: architect Shawn Adams

In the first of our interviews with key figures lighting up the London Design Festival 2024, Shawn Adams, founder of POoR Collective, discusses the power of such events to encourage social change

Wallpaper · Sep 11, 2024

Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers review – a riveting rollercoaster ride from Arles to the stars

This daring, dazzling exhibition gives us a thrilling sense of the artist’s transfiguring genius, showing how he remade the world around him with beauty, hope and searing colour

The Guardian - UK · Sep 10, 2024

Shigeru Ban wins 2024 Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award

The 2024 Praemium Imperiale Architecture Award goes to Japanese architect Shigeru Ban

Wallpaper · Sep 10, 2024

‘We need safe routes’: artist Es Devlin to open refugee portrait show

Fifty drawings of displaced people will be shown in a London church, in collaboration with UN refugee agency

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024

Artist Gary Hume: ‘I use sex less now – but I still find the world an erotic place’

He once said all his paintings were inspired by sex. What’s changed? As the former YBA’s new show opens, Hume talks about his many obsessions – from swans to mirrors to doors – and explains how he uses dreams to solve painting problems

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024

See the winners of Scotland's biggest prize in portrait art and photography

THE winners of Scotland’s biggest awards for portrait photography and art have been announced.

The National (Scotland) · Sep 9, 2024

German installation artist Rebecca Horn dies aged 80

Born in 1944, Horn’s surreal and witty work used birds, mechanics and masks to create ‘art machines’ and visual representations of sound

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024

V&A celebrates a century of national theatre archive with tribute to avid collector

New exhibition, named after ‘theatrical encyclopedia’ Gabrielle Enthoven, showcases British stage history from the Restoration to Fleabag

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024

At Melaka Art & Performance Festival I watched dancers overcome by a trance in the rain, and the smoke

Melbourne-based Tony Yap is a leading figure in Australian interpretations of the abstract Japanese dance form of butoh and what he calls “trance dance”. In butoh and trance, movers consider the body as a porous receptacle for spirits and forces from outside of it, and which comes to move it.

The Conversation · Sep 9, 2024

TV tonight: artist and fourth plinth model Alison Lapper tells her story

Portrait of the artist whose pregnant figure caused outrage when it was erected as a Trafalgar Square sculpture in 2005. Plus: what if Trump wins? Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Sep 9, 2024