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• Me and my pencil: famous creatives on their tools – in pictures

  04-11-2017 18:00
  Tracey Emin draws with a classic black and yellow striped pencil, whereas James Dyson works with a sleek mechanical one. In their book The Secret Life of the Pencil (Laurence King, £12.99) Alex Hammond and Mike Tinney photographed the pencils of 70 artists, designers, musicians and architects, illustrating the relationship between the artist and their instrument. In the foreword, William Boyd writes that the pencil is the only implement that brings out “your sense of yourself, as ref
  
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• Yayoi Kusama: exhibition brings together 65 years of artist's bizarre works

  04-11-2017 01:19
  Prolific artist’s odds and ends dive across mediums and forms, but are always united by the pattern, repetitions, mirrors and pumpkinsIn the most colourful room of her Brisbane exhibition, a horned, hard-looking sculpture sits between Yayoi Kusama’s newest paintings like some sprouting alien plant made of clogs. At first it looks like a storage display for shoes, printed all over with the Japanese octagenerian’s trademark polka dots. But with every moment spent looking closer,
  
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