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• To infinity and beyond: the spectacular sensory overload of Ryoji Ikeda’s art

  09-05-2021 16:00
  
  Incandescent light, the thud of Kyoto nightclubs, particle physics … it all goes into Ryoji Ikeda’s extraordinary sensory symphonies. He talks about his upcoming show at 180 The StrandRyoji Ikeda has delivered some dazzling assaults on the senses over his 25-year career: a beach in Rio de Janeiro bathed in his unique palette of light; New York’s Times Square given over to his black and white flickering patterns. But for his next show, the Japanese artist and composer is taking
  
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• Eileen Agar: the reluctant surrealist

  09-05-2021 14:00
  
  Exhibited in the 1930s alongside the work of friends Nash, Picasso, Breton and co, Eileen Agar’s singular collages, sculptures and paintings tell their own lyrical story in an eagerly awaited show opening later this monthBy a quirk of fate, and museum tastes, the British artist Eileen Agar is still best known for a single sculpture in the Tate collection: a magnetically outlandish male head titled Angel of Anarchy (c1936). Constructed from diamante, osprey feathers, cowrie shells and pirat
  
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• Just get a sketchbook out: top UK artists lament decline of drawing classes

  09-05-2021 11:30
  
  Skill regarded as vital by Peter Blake, David Hockney and others has today been eclipsed by conceptual artThe demise of drawing in some of Britain’s most prestigious art schools has been lamented by leading artists. Their comments come as Sir Peter Blake, who is preparing for a new exhibition, and David Hockney recall the inspiration of drawing classes they attended at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in the 1950s.When Blake and Hockney were students, they learned how to draw in classes that
  
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