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Bricking it! How a ‘crinkle crankle’ wall reinvented the Serpentine pavilion

Lanza Atelier’s simple, powerful pavilion features an actual serpentine brought to life in a wave of rust-coloured brick – a material never used for the structure before

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Peter Doig - House of Music at Serpentine South Gallery review: a buzzing house party

4/5 This whole show is about the communal stimulus created when art and music mix

Evening Standard

Judy Chicago: Revelations review – cosmic cobblers from a dinner party goddess

Her cosmological screed is tiresome and her blissed-out female figures are idealised beyond belief. But at least her musclebound men cavort, weep blood and urinate realistically

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Korean-inspired design for the Serpentine Pavilion 2024

The pavilion by South Korean architect Minsuk Cho and his firm Mass Studies will open in June

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Barbara Kruger wins Best Thought-Provoker in Wallpaper* Design Awards 2024

‘Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You’ by Barbara Kruger at Serpentine Gallery, opening 1 February 2024, is a Wallpaper* winner

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Bianca Jagger, Diane Kruger, Orlando Bloom — inside the Serpentine summer party

The Serpentine wins the battle of the London galleries for the city’s sparkliest summer bash

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Sadiq Khan parties the night away at the Serpentine amid Tory disarray

We chatted to Hans Ulrich Obrist, Andrew Garfield and Venus Williams at a star-studded bash last night

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OPINION - Treasured spaces: why London needs pavilions

A new pavilion at the Serpentine Galleries in Hyde Park is now firmly established as a regular moment in London’s annual calendar. Provocative, thoughtful or both, the prestigious architectural commission has seen work by Zaha Hadid, Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Gehry, Ai Weiwei and Sumayya Vally. Now the Lebanese/French architect Lina…

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Serpentine Pavilion 2023 review – Lina Ghotmeh’s convivial canopy

The celebrated Beirut-born architect Lina Ghotmeh designed her pleated timber pavilion to bring people together in nature. It’s a nice idea, though the details let it down – and the Serpentine’s formula needs a rethink

The Guardian - UK

Serpentine Pavilion 2023 review – giant cocktail umbrella gives the park a party vibe

French-Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh has unveiled her festive big top. And this symphony of timber is a lovely place to eat and think about food – if you can overlook the clumsy flat-pack feel

The Guardian - UK

The Serpentine Pavilion 2023 review: Lina Ghotmeh’s invitation to dine is a bland dish

Wasn’t the idea of the pavilion to celebrate and encourage innovation and experimentation?

Evening Standard

Tomás Saraceno in Collaboration: Web(s) of Life at Serpentine South Gallery review: the anger is palpable

Interesting and necessary thinking abounds here, but that doesn’t always translate into effective art

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Grenfell, Steve McQueen, Serpentine Gallery review: a haunting monument to tragedy, hypnotising in its horror

The artist’s 24-minute film of the burnt-out west London tower shows that art can respond to the Grenfell fire

The Independent UK

‘It’s a bit Mary Poppins’: Lina Ghotmeh to design 2023’s Serpentine pavilion

The Beirut-born architect is aiming for the smallest possible carbon footprint with an African-inspired ‘great shelter’ for meeting in Kensington Gardens

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‘Terribly courageous’ – Atta Kwami’s glorious posthumous mural unveiled at the Serpentine

The Ghanaian artist was just starting to receive the acclaim he deserved, winning last year’s Maria Lassnig prize. His widow talks about the daunting task of completing his joyous final work

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British fashion shines through the rain at Serpentine Summer Evening

A major night on London’s social calendar, the fashion crowd were out in full force at last night’s event, with guests including Anna Wintour, Ciara, Adwoa Aboah and Charithra Chandran…

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Theaster Gates’s Serpentine Pavilion: Black Chapel - great ideas but this is the sacred made mundane

The artist’s structure is permeated with rich ideas, none of which are effectively expressed in this simplistic realisation

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Radio Ballads at Serpentine North Gallery review: a show that affirms the transformative power of art

The show, featuring multiple films and video installations from four artists, takes a few hours to see - but it’s really worth the time

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Serpentine Gallery to run virtual version of new art exhibition on online video game Fortnite

Millions of gamers will get to see a new art exhibition after the Serpentine Gallery teamed up with Fortnite to create a virtual version of their show.

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‘Who’s to say it’s not real?’ Street artist Kaws on creating Fortnite’s first exhibition

The New Yorker has made a virtual art show to take place within the smash-hit game – and a real-life one at London’s Serpentine with a touch of augmented reality. Can it get young gamers into galleries?

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