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• Social history, sewn up: English street scenes embroidered – in pictures

  10-09-2023 18:00
  
  When the artist Lynn Setterington moved to London in the early 1980s for university, she started to make embroideries of her new surroundings. “My favourite is Electric Avenue in Brixton – I love markets, and the one there was so different from market day back in my Yorkshire village.” She began posting her textiles on Instagram during lockdown and is writing a book about shared embroidery practice. “Embroidery is having its moment,” she says. “Its reach, powe
  
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• Christian Marclay: Doors review – spellbinding entrances and exits

  10-09-2023 14:00
  
  White Cube Mason’s Yard, London
  In the manner of his acclaimed work The Clock, and 10 years in the making, the Swiss-American artist has spliced together hundreds of film clips to create an extraordinary montage of cinematic comings and goingsA door bursts open, a man hurtles across the screen, overturning a table in pursuit of some vanishing figure. A door bursts open, and a woman slams it hard against whoever is chasing behind her. A door opens more slowly, a face peering anxiously round
  
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• A punk, a monkey, a maths genius … our pick of local heroes who deserve a blue plaque

  10-09-2023 13:00
  
  With the London scheme poised to go national, Observer writers make their cases for a few of the many overlooked, snubbed or merely forgotten figures who richly deserve recognitionThe London blue plaques scheme, which commemorates the places where notable people lived or worked, is the oldest of its kind. Now it’s to be made national. While many cities and communities already have their own system of plaques or memorials to celebrate local history, it’s still an achievement to receiv
  
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• Adam Nathaniel Furman: ‘I like the senses to be tickled’

  10-09-2023 12:00
  
  The British artist and designer, whose work spans Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and a Bristol underpass, is redefining public spaces with an outsider’s eye for the monumental and an emphasis on craft and delight“They last for ever,” says Adam Nathaniel Furman. “When we’re all dead, when the world has ended, they’ll still be here.” The things in question are ceramics and mosaics, favourite materials of the 40-year-old designer and artist. In which case, the
  
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• Andrew Scott: ‘We need a bit more of people not liking things’

  10-09-2023 08:00
  
  Fleabag’s hot priest is about to take on his most liberating role yet: a one-man show of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in which he will play all nine roles, male and female. He loves taking risks, he says. It seems to be paying off…I last saw Andrew Scott in the flesh eight years ago. I was sitting in the gloom at the top of what used to be St Martin’s School of Art in the Charing Cross Road – a tiny, temporary theatre had sprung up there – and he was three feet away
  
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