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• Ephemeral edible: gingerbread monolith appears on San Francisco hilltop, then collapses

  26-12-2020 23:21
  
  Christmas day sweet sighting in Corona Heights park attracted visitors who took pictures and even took a biteLike the other monoliths that have mysteriously appeared across America and the world in the waning weeks of 2020, the one that popped up on a California hilltop on Christmas Day seemed to come out of nowhere.Also like the others, it was tall, three-sided and it rapidly attracted crowds of curious visitors before an untimely destruction. Continue reading...
  
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• Call For Texts - James Banner + Stephanie Lamprea Duo / James Banner / London / International

  26-12-2020 19:03
  Composer and improviser James Banner is commissioning 6 people who work with words to create new pieces of writing for a new duo with Stephanie Lamprea. The words will form the basis of a new series...
  
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• 2020 visions: daily drawings of a very strange year – in pictures

  26-12-2020 18:00
  
  Since Boris Johnson won the general election in December 2019, London-based artist Jolie Goodman has been making a daily digital drawing for her series 1872 days of Tory Government (which would be the length of a full five-year term). Depicting everything from Black Lives Matter protests to Prince Charles with the Covid-19 virus under his kilt, the images have been collected in a book to be published in January. Goodman creates the works either from memory or a photograph every morning. “M
  
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• The best photography and architecture of 2020: high camp to Dungeness

  26-12-2020 10:00
  
  Masculinity went under the microscope, 70s New York life was chronicled and Derek Jarman’s garden recreated in LondonMore on the best culture of 2020 Continue reading...
  
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• The best art of 2020: Picasso's doodles, queer South Africa and gory Gentileschi

  26-12-2020 01:00
  
  Pablo showed his devilish side, Zanele Muholi captured queer lives in South Africa and Artemisia Gentileschi offered a savage ride through suffering and rage. Our critics rank their top shows
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