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• Strange Clay review – gleeful globs, erupting goo and an octopus in the toilet

  25-10-2022 18:32
  Hayward Gallery, London
  This contemporary ceramics show has everything from beautiful pitchers and sexy pots to stupid knick-knacksGreat globby gouts of shiny cerulean blue glaze slump and slide in an arrested, fused avalanche on a bare red column that’s taller than me. Something like a turd nestles on top of a misshapen, pistachio-coloured cupcake, and gold and red tears pattern a wonky blue shape that’s grown like fungus from the floor. Blackish congealed lumps of goo erupt through
  
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• The great Ben Nevis glow-up: how I hiked up a mountain and became an artwork

  25-10-2022 17:17
  The UK’s most stunning locations have been turned into luminous works of art by 11,000 ‘lumenators’. Our writer grabs a geolight and gets a wind-chilled, freezing cold thrill on Britain’s tallest peakA weaving string of twinkling blue light is cascading down Ben Nevis, reflected in the waters of the loch below like a river of light. The drone camera catching the whole scene at nightfall sweeps in close – and suddenly the true nature of the “river” is rev
  
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• Lost Rubens painting of Salome could exceed £31m at auction

  25-10-2022 16:30
  Salome with the Head of John the Baptist expected to rank among highest-value old master artworksA painting by Peter Paul Rubens that was believed to have been lost or misattributed for about 200 years is expected to rank among the highest-value old master works ever sold when it is auctioned next year.Salome with the Head of John the Baptist was rediscovered in 1998 and will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in January. It is dated from about 1609, when the artist returned to his native Flanders
  
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• Hayley Tompkins review – you’ll never look at a chair in the same way again

  25-10-2022 16:21
  Fruitmarket, Edinburgh
  Films with a toddlers’ eye view, mallets on walls and painted shirts – the artist’s new show breathes fresh joy into the way we see the worldHave you ever wanted to see the world anew through the eyes of a child? To see every object and landscape as a brand new form? Glasgow-based artist Hayley Tompkins can show you how. Her ironically named show Far looks at things close up or in part andmakes them appear entirely different. Film screens flicker through
  
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• Hilma review – Sweden’s mystical outsider artist gets feelgood biopic

  25-10-2022 12:00
  Film candyman Lasse Hallström has delivered a cloying but well performed version of the life of Swedish painter Hilma af KlintThe director is all wrong. Just as you wouldn’t call on Quentin Tarantino to make a movie about Monet and his waterlilies, Lasse Hallström is a perplexing choice for a biopic about the Swedish outsider artist Hilma af Klint. Hallström is the soft-centred director of sweet-natured heart-tuggers such as Chocolat and A Dog’s Purpose. Af Klint was c
  
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• Edward Hopper’s New York: exploring the artist’s relationship with the city

  25-10-2022 07:44
  A new exhibition showcases more than 200 pictures from the ‘quintessential American realist’ that highlight a key connection between person and place“Cities are really palimpsests, so [Edward] Hopper’s New York is definitely still here. You may need to look around for it, but I like that sense of discovery.”Kim Conaty, the Steven and Ann Ames Curator of drawings and prints at the Whitney Museum, has spent the past four years working on the museum’s latest Hopp
  
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• Donatello’s David sculpture to go on display in UK for first time

  25-10-2022 07:01
  Renaissance artist’s famous marble to form part of V&A exhibition exploring his cultural impactDonatello’s most famous marble sculpture, David, is to go on display in the UK for the first time as part of the country’s first exhibition of the Renaissance master’s work.Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance, which will be staged at the Victoria and Albert Museum, will feature other previously unseen works in Britain, offering a fresh vision of the artist and his impact on
  
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• ‘A lot of my work has this insane anxiety about it’: David Shrigley on worrying, God and drawing like a five-year-old

  25-10-2022 07:00
  He has been shortlisted for the Turner prize for his acerbic, often hilarious images. Now living in the countryside with his wife and dog, the artist has produced a new book – and his work is as tense and restless as everCool young artists are talking about their work. “I don’t actually do the paintings myself,” says a man in a stripy jumper. He gets a bunch of kids to do them for him. A woman wearing thick lipstick and holding a cigarette describes her practice: “I
  
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• Theatre-Seat-Maker-To-The-Stars

  25-10-2022 00:04 via nytimes.com
  “If a seat’s good, you don’t notice it,” he said. “You only notice it when it’s bad.” In the world of theater seating, he added, “No news is good news.” – The New York Times
  
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