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For artists, there is beauty to be found in the city too | Letter

29-09-2021 18:26

There’s no need to flock to the countryside – inspiration can come from built environments as well, writes Val HardingTony Foster expresses sadness that tourism and people relocating from cities to the countryside are destroying remote places for artists (‘Excessive tourism can destroy a place’: artist Tony Foster on the rush to the countryside, 26 September). But landscapes where you can lose yourself can also be found in towns and cities.As a member of an inner city art

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Noguchi review – this isn’t art, it’s luxury lighting

29-09-2021 17:34

Barbican, London
Beautifully spaced and tasteful, Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi’s work would look great in a high-end kitchen. But as art, it’s a total boreIf you like hanging out in high-end lighting shops, the Barbican art gallery is the place for you right now. Paper lampshades are everywhere, from tall wavy ones on the floor to deluxe versions of the spherical lantern shades you can buy anywhere. Beautifully spaced, warm with glowing light, artfully ornamented with obj

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‘There is a taboo’: Rankin photos tackle baldness head on

29-09-2021 14:13

Exclusive: Baldpieces confronts mortality and masculine experience of hair loss with striking headwearFor some, it is a source of shame – and a trigger for frequent mirror checks: is my hairline receding? Is there a thin patch on top of my head?But for the acclaimed photographer Rankin and the conceptual artists Scott Kelly and Ben Polkinghorne, male baldness is something to celebrate. Baldpieces, a series of portraits of men adorned with striking headwear, focuses on masculine beauty and

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From a cookie jar to couplets and cocaine – Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon review

29-09-2021 09:10

Whitechapel Gallery, White Cube and V&A, London
This sprawling trio of exhibitions collects objects from many sources, marked by sometimes traumatic history, alongside Gates’s own, magnificentworkBeautiful things and broken things, horrible racist figurines and gorgeous pottery slathered in tar. Bricks and pots and a west African female ancestor figure fired at such a high temperature it cracked and warped and the head fell off. A rickshaw laden with bowls and plates, an old brick-pres

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