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• Punchline: celebrating artists who use humor in their work

  06-07-2022 16:51
  
  In opposition to the overly serious art world, a new group exhibition brings together artists who lean into the lighter side“The people who are the funniest in my life are also the best artists,” curator Yng-Ru Chen told me while discussing her newest show, Punchline, which is taking over Jane Lombard Gallery’s Tribeca space from 7 July to 12 August. Existing in the overlap between art and humor, Punchline showcases 11 artists who use a range of approaches to the comedic to imb
  
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• A knight in shining armour plummets off a pier: Dod Miller’s best photograph

  06-07-2022 16:02
  
  ‘I started photographing West Sussex Birdman competitions in the 1990s. I’ve seen hats with propellers, people holding helium balloons – and a guy dressed a dinosaur who said his name was Terry Dactyl’In 1994, I started going to Birdman events at West Sussex seaside towns like Bognor and Worthing. People would launch themselves off piers strapped into homemade contraptions – often in fancy dress – and try to fly. After my first visit, the photo agency I worked
  
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• ‘Sigmund would have loved this’ – Lucian Freud: The Painter and his Family review

  06-07-2022 12:05
  
  Freud Museum, London
  The painter’s sex life drove his art. Does this show think that’s too vulgar to go into? The result is richly ironic: a case of repression in the building that houses Sigmund’s consulting couch
  Three generations meet in Sigmund Freud’s study at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London. Lucian Freud’s painting of his mother, Lucie, hangs over his grandfather’s famous consulting couch. The woman lies as if floating in space, eyes closed, arms up in a g
  
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• Imperial artwork: early photographs of life in Japan – in pictures

  06-07-2022 08:00
  
  Taken around 1865, these amateur images by a Dutch physician offer up a fascinating glimpse inside the country as it began opening up its borders Continue reading...
  
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• David Hockney: ‘My era was the freest time. I now realise it’s over’

  06-07-2022 07:00
  
  The artist pops in from Normandy to talk us through a show of his great paintings, discuss his old hometown Bradford becoming City of Culture – and reveal why Harry Styles was tricky to paintDavid Hockney takes two crumpled cigarette butts from his pocket and places them on the lunch table. “You’re disgusting,” says his lifelong friend Celia Birtwell, who has featured in many of his paintings. “Horrible! Horrible!” However, the noxious objects he has placed ne
  
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