• Gallery-goers take a twisted trip and history’s visionaries set sail – the week in art

    Gallery-goers take a twisted trip and history’s visionaries set sail – the week in art
    Ceramics smash against abstract art, a trans painter tells her story and crop circles get a late reappraisal – all in your weekly dispatchDreamachine
    A hallucinatory visual experience that promises to subvert your senses. Judging by the health form you have to fill in, it’s pretty intense.
    • At various locations including London, Cardiff, Belfast and Edinburgh from 10 May. Continue reading...
  • Let me introduce you to the plan for London’s latest eyesore – the slab | Simon Jenkins

    Let me introduce you to the plan for London’s latest eyesore – the slab | Simon Jenkins
    For 15 years outsize developments have been making a mess of the Thames – and this South Bank scheme is among the worst
    I could not imagine that London might inflict any more visual damage to the Thames than it has already done. No city on earth has made such a mess of its river. But one of its biggest and most aggressive office blocks has just been approved on the South Bank in the heart of the capital. The slab – or rather tower and slab – that was approved by Lambeth council

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