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• Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia review – magical riches

  17-09-2017 09:30
  British Museum, London
  From squirrel fur coats to fake beards, the mysterious, playful culture of the rugged Scythian nomads of iron age Siberia is a revelationSiberia has never enjoyed a good press. We headline it as emptiness, a place of frigid exile, inhospitable both to the body and to the imagination. One of several wonderful things about this British Museum exhibition is that it gives the lie to that void. Siberia comes to life in dramatic, sometimes breathtaking ways: in fabulous gold and
  
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• Rachel Whiteread review – accentuate the negative

  17-09-2017 09:00
  Tate Britain, London
  Whiteread’s inside-out casts of everything from hot-water bottles to chicken sheds are poised between banality and a spellbinding poetry of the pastThere is a small white shack on the lawn in front of Tate Britain. It looks exactly like the very thing it is, namely the concrete cast of a chicken shed. The windows are blind and the door could never open to let the birds out, for the object is a solid block, heavy and impenetrable, unlike the airy structure it repeats. A
  
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