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• Andras Kaldor obituary

  22-05-2022 18:36
  
  My friend Andras Kaldor, who has died aged 83, was an architect, writer, artist and gallery owner in Dartmouth, Devon. A refugee from Hungary, he was steeped in both western and eastern European tradition.Andras was born and raised in Budapest, son of Margit (nee Gazdag) and Andras Kaldor, an engineer. He attended the Petofi Gimnazium school in Budapest. Aged 18, he rebelled against the government, which was backed by Russian forces, in the 1956 revolution and escaped from Hungary with a group o
  
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• Carsten Höller: ‘I don’t want flowers on my food, ever. It disturbs me’

  22-05-2022 16:30
  
  The artist’s new project is a restaurant in Stockholm, with strict, brutalist rules. Just don’t ask for ketchupI have only been to Stockholm twice, both times to meet the experimental artist Carsten Höller, most famous for installing helter-skelters in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern, and for magic mushroom-inspired upside-down worlds of all kinds. The first time I met him, seven years ago, Höller introduced me to the pair of bullfinches he was hand-feeding while attempting
  
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• Cornelia Parker review – the redemptive art of making something out of nothing

  22-05-2022 14:00
  
  Tate Britain, London
  The artist transforms things unnoticed, or barely there, into a poetry of objects in this superbly curated retrospectiveThe enthralling Cornelia Parker survey now open at Tate Britain is about 20 years overdue – but far better late than never. At 65, with her poetic and highly original imagination, Parker has made enough masterpieces to fill a full-scale retrospective and even spill out into the surrounding galleries.The show opens with the radiant Thirty Pieces of Sil
  
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• ‘The lady without legs or arms’: how artist Sarah Biffin shattered Victorian ideas about disability

  22-05-2022 13:00
  
  The achievements of Sarah Biffin, once a fairground attraction, are recognised in a new exhibitionShe was born without arms and legs to a farming family in 1784 and, measuring just 37 inches in height as an adult, was put on show in touring fairground attractions. Billed as The Limbless Wonder, Sarah Biffin painted, wrote and sewed with her mouth and shoulder, alongside prize fighters, wild animals and other sideshow “curiosities” that drew paying spectators.But she overcame life&rsq
  
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