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The very nice Ken Done: ‘I’ll never be as good as a five-year-old’

21-05-2022 22:00

The Australian artist’s relationship with Sydney only deepened during lockdown. He hopes his Vivid festival debut will remind the city how to playGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastKen Done has been alive to sensory details for as long as he can recall. As a boy, the artist spent a large part in Maclean, a small fishing town in New South Wales’s Clarence Valley. There, he pored over encyclopaedias, hypnotised by pictures of butterflies. He listened t

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The artist who creates creatures

21-05-2022 18:00

Russian artist Helga Stentzel spent lots of time in a Siberian village with her grandmother when she was little. ‘Entertainment was scarce: two TV channels, no computer, so I’d lie in bed squinting at the carpet until the flowers blurred and I saw a dragon. I’d search for parrots and hedgehogs in the wood knots on my bed.’ Now London-based, the artist creates and photographs the creatures she spies around her so you can see them too. ‘For my polar bear I wanted snow

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On my radar: Eva Rothschild’s cultural highlights

21-05-2022 16:00

The Irish artist on a thrilling Mexican novel, a lovable comedy about two Cork misfits, and some devastating Mississippi bluesBorn in Dublin in 1971, artist Eva Rothschild is best known for her large-scale sculptures. In 2009 she was awarded the Tate Britain annual Duveen Commission, for which she produced Cold Corners, a vast zigzagging sculpture, and in 2014 she became a Royal Academician. She represented Ireland at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. She lives and works in London. Her latest ex

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‘I’m pretty sure he was checking his own phone at the time’: Monaris’s best phone picture

21-05-2022 11:00

The photographer and Instagrammer looks back at the day under Manhattan Bridge when a hobby became a callingIt was a moody January morning in Brooklyn, New York, when Monaris, whose real name is Paola Franqui, headed to a local pier to meet a group of strangers. The 100 or so she found there were fellow Instagram aficionados, armed with iPhones and a sense of camaraderie and possibility. It was 2014 and the social media platform was booming. “I was working nine to five for a Taiwanese logi

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From RoboCop to Harry Styles: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

21-05-2022 07:00

Whether you fancy having your senses blasted by a sci-fi classic or soothed by a boyband veteran’s grownup solo album, our critics have you covered for the next seven daysRoboCop
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One of the greatest corporate satires of all-time, rereleased in a sparkling new 4k restoration? I’d buy that for a dollar! The Paul Verhoeven sci-fi classic (above) is as deliciously, startlingly violent as ever. Age cannot wither RoboCop! Continue reading...

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