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• On my radar: Hew Locke's cultural highlights

  25-04-2020 16:00
  
  The artist on his favourite lockdown TV and the wonders of Indian miniature paintings
  Artist Hew Locke was born in Edinburgh in 1959 and received an MA in sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 1994. His works, which use painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and installation to explore colonialism, have been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Tate Britain, the V&A and the British Museum. In 2000, he won a Paul Hamlyn award. His solo exhibition, The Man Who Would
  
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• The bittersweet story of Marina Abramović's epic walk on the Great Wall of China

  25-04-2020 08:00
  
  In 1988 Abramović and Ulay trekked from opposite ends of the wall to meet in the middle, but this act of love and performance art was doomed from the startFrom the moment in 1976 that Serbian and German performance artists Marina Abramović and Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen, who died last month aged 76) clapped eyes on each other they were inseparable. Ulay found Abramović witchy and otherworldly; she found him wild and exciting. Even their initial encounter was propitious: the
  
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