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• Darn tootin’: decorative mending with Celia Pym – in pictures

  17-04-2021 18:00
  
  After Celia Pym’s great-uncle Roly passed away in 2007, she inherited his old, worn-out jumper. It was damaged at the forearms, marking the spot where his arms rested while he sat drawing on his armchair, and had previously been mended by his sister. Pym became fascinated with the idea of visible mending, letting garments tell the stories of their owners. Using traditional darning techniques, the London-based artist has since mended items damaged by wear and tear, moths and fires. “I
  
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• Art, gigs, theatre: 100 must-see events to book as Britain reopens

  17-04-2021 09:00
  
  From David Hockney to Die Walküre, Sindhu Vee to The Suicide Squad – here’s what to catch as culture returnsA welcome to 2021’s summer of artsWhat artists have missed about the live experienceModern Toss on the grand cultural reopening
  Luc Tuymans: Monkey Business
  To 22 May, David Zwirner, W1
  Tuymans is a history painter for the age of image saturation: a fruit still-life was his response to the trauma of 9/11. Created during the first lockdown, toy monkeys feature in thes
  
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• The Weird Pilots That Didn’t Make It To TV

  17-04-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  TV networks spend about $100 million a year in developing pilots for series. Only a small number get to the schedule. Even fewer become ratings successes. So there’s an awful lot of very weird failed pilots out there… – Tedium
  
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