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• Es Devlin: ‘Has everything I’ve made been worth the resources? Probably not’

  19-09-2022 17:20
  The ‘multihyphenate’ set designer has worked with Adele, Kanye West and Beyoncé – but her new project is a shrine to endangered species whose stars are pipistrelles, planthoppers and bearded tits‘Did you know,” asks Es Devlin, “that you can tell the difference between a wood pigeon and a collared dove from how it emphasises the syllables in its call?” She is sitting at a long table in her home and studio in south London, where big glass doors open
  
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• Tim Feasey obituary

  19-09-2022 14:39
  My friend the artist Tim Feasey, who has died suddenly aged 60, made small and intimate but intense paintings, prints and drawings, employing exuberant colour and monotone rendering. He was always reluctant to explain his work, but it combined abstract and representational forms, capturing moments in time and passages of personal history. In the 1990s Tim was arts co-ordinator at the the Art House in Wakefield, a charitable organisation that brought disabled and able-bodied professional and amat
  
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• ‘Inconvenient truths’: Berlin’s Humboldt Forum faces up to its colonial past

  19-09-2022 09:53
  The revamped museum fully opened on Friday, its looted Benin bronzes now repatriated to Nigeria. Yet are films, replicas and involvement of indigenous communities more than just window dressing? Visitors to room 210 at the Humboldt Forum, the new €644m Berlin museum that completed its staggered opening last Friday, may briefly find themselves reminded of the British Museum.In both, a distinctive wall of metal rods marks the start of a display about the former Kingdom of Benin. In London the
  
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