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• ‘Pose with the pumpkins? I’d rather meet the meteorite’ – Frieze art fair review

  12-10-2022 19:33
  Frieze London ★★☆☆☆ / Frieze Masters ★★★★★ / Regent’s Park, London
  Painting is back in vogue at the giant art fair. But it’s superficial and silly rather than sleazy and shocking. The Masters section is where the work to lust over is – with an actual space rock for saleEverything has turned upside down in Regent’s Park. The two Frieze art fairs that take place here in October have changed places. All the danger,
  
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• Never mind the Wedgwoods: pottery’s punk revolution celebrates filthy ashtrays, condoms and carrier bags

  12-10-2022 11:00
  Forget smooth lines, symmetry and classical elegance – the new wave of handmade ceramics are wonky, shonky and thrillingly accessible
  Last year, Alma Berrow watched nervously as her large ceramic sculpture of a pink shell filled with snuffed-out cigarette butts went up for auction at Sotheby’s. Ifs and Butts’ inclusion in the auction alongside work by artists such as Barbara Hepworth and Tracey Emin was enough to surprise and satisfy Berrow, a former fashion designer who had on
  
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• Objects of Desire review – surreal lobster phones and a seaside sleazorama

  12-10-2022 01:01
  Design Museum, London
  A lamp in the form of a life-size horse, a chair made of soft toys, a lips settee begging to be bonked on – this delightful orgy of bad taste highlights perverse surrealist design from Dalí to todayThe Design Museum may need to keep an eye out for unsuitable acts on all the erotic furniture in its often delirious exhibition of perverse design. Perhaps they should put up a sign: “No sex on the sofas, please!”Objects of Desire explores the influence o
  
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