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No conforming to type as novel project visits New York

01-07-2017 23:00

The Los Angeles-based artist Tim Youd is in the middle of a ten-year performance series entitled 100 Novelsa quest to retype 100 novels on the same make and model of typewriter their authors used to create them. The artist, who calls his work a tension between the formal and the whimsical, types the entire novel on to one sheet of paper, repeatedly run through the typewriter, with another slipped underneath. The process creates a soaked top sheet and an under-sheet with seeped ink and embossmen

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Making a mountain out of a mint tin – in pictures

01-07-2017 18:00

Heidi Annalise has spent the past four years putting mountains into mint boxes. Using small tins as both canvas and palette, the Colorado-based painter creates pocket panoramas of her environment. “Painting helps me soak up vivid memories by studying details that would have otherwise gone unnoticed,” says Annalise. “Sitting on a hillside and studying the colour of a mountain shadow has become a form of meditation for me.” The little vistas can vary from Colorado mountain

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Sylvia Plath: her life in art and photographs – in pictures

01-07-2017 11:00

A visual history of the writer Sylvia Plath is to go on show at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. It includes photographs of her throughout her life, rarely seen artwork including self-portraits and letters, and personal objects, including her childhood ponytail, preserved by her mother. Sylvia Plath: One Life can be seen until 20 May 2018 Continue reading...

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Howard Jacobson: ‘At an event for my book Pussy, there are three nuns in the front row’

01-07-2017 09:00

Afterwards, Sister Rosa proposes a group photograph. What is the etiquette?Many years ago, at a faraway university, I supervised a mother superior’s MA thesis on Anna Karenina. Members of her order were concerned about the effect of such study on her faith. Nobody was concerned about the effect of it on mine.It turned out not to be difficult discussing Anna’s passion for Vronsky. We stuck to abstract nouns such as dishonour and abandon. The hard part, for me at least,

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How I looked for clues to my sister’s inner world in her art

01-07-2017 07:45

My sister, Fauzia, died too young and all we had left of her was her art – small, beautiful, incomplete pieces of herMy sister, Fauzia, had her first big bout of depression in 1990, though none of us recognised it at the time. She had just dropped out of her fine art foundation course at Central Saint Martins even though it had meant everything to her. In the next months, she withdrew from the world, already beginning to speak of the mess of her life at the age of 19.Then, at Easter, a fri

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