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• The Broad Museum: Los Angeles has a new powerhouse of art

  27-09-2015 19:09
  
  The striking downtown building may just have turned the city into the world’s contemporary-art capital
  
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• I shot Andy Warhol: photographer Billy Name on drugs and shootings at the Factory

  27-09-2015 17:00
  
  Billy Name was Warhol’s boyfriend. Then one day the artist gave him a camera and said: ‘Billy, you do the stills.’ He relives his wild times with Lou, Nico and BobBilly Name is lying in a bed in a ward of Mid-Hudson Regional Hospital in Poughkeepsie, upstate New York, hooked up to a saline drip. He is not looking good: his face is pale, his skin sallow, his voice almost inaudibly low. It turns out that, as I was crossing the Atlantic the previous day, Billy was being admitted f
  
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• Empire state of mind: Billy Name's shots of Andy Warhol's Factory – in pictures

  27-09-2015 17:00
  
  As the in-house photographer for Andy Warhol’s Factory, Billy Name was up close and personal with models, musicians and torrents of creative energy. Here is a selection of his subjects, from Jackie Kennedy silkscreens to Nico
  I shot Andy Warhol: photographer Billy Name on his time at the factory• The exhibition Billy Name: The Silver Age is at the Serena Morton II gallery, London, from 30 September until 23 October Continue reading...
  
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• Banksy's Dismaland moves to Calais to provide shelter for refugees

  27-09-2015 16:22
  
  The so-called Bemusement Park will be repurposed, its creator says
  
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• On my radar: Bill Bailey’s cultural highlights

  27-09-2015 09:15
  
  The comedian on Amy Winehouse, the magic staging of vampire tale Let the Right One In, and writer Helen Macdonald’s memoir on falconry and bereavementBill Bailey is a comedian, musician and actor best known for his offbeat standup shows and TV appearances on Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Black Books. He was born and grew up in the West Country, starting out as a performer in a Welsh experimental theatre troupe and as the musical accompanist to a mind-reading dog. He began performing as a so
  
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• Celts: Art and Identity review – a wild world of visions and myth

  27-09-2015 09:00
  
  British Museum, London
  This exemplary show of Celtic art digs deep into 2,500 years of astounding abstract beautyHe towers above you with his slit of a mouth and his alien frown, eight feet of glowering blond sandstone. The nose is a wedge, the eyes deep shadows and the brows conjured in a single fierce shelf. One arm is before, the other behind, and it draws you into a mystery. For this horned figure is not one man but two: the statue is Janus-faced.He looks like nothing on earth, this frighten
  
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• Kara Walker: ‘There is a moment in life where one becomes black’

  27-09-2015 08:00
  
  Acclaimed US artist Kara Walker, who looks at the lasting symbols of racism in the deep south in her new London show, talks about finding her voice – and not exhibiting in AtlantaKara Walker had her first major success as an artist with her intricate and compulsive black-and-white paper silhouettes of imagined scenes from slave history in the American south. In 1994, her room-size mural, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b’tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress
  
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