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• Smiles, waves and flashed body parts: video portal links Dublin and New York

  13-05-2024 17:35
  
  Dubliners urged to give ‘Irish welcome’ via interactive sculpture, but bad behaviour has also been on displayRain sluiced down on a grey Dublin afternoon but the crowd clustering around the portal ignored the downpour and waved at a man cycling towards the screen on a sunny morning in Manhattan.He gazed back, waved and wobbled before recovering his balance and vanishing down Fifth Avenue, eliciting a cheer from the sodden observers on North Earl Street. Continue reading...
  
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• Smiles, waves – and flashed body parts: video portal links Dublin and New York

  13-05-2024 17:35
  
  Dubliners urged to give ‘Irish welcome’ via interactive sculpture but bad behaviour is also on displayRain sluiced down on a grey Dublin afternoon but the crowd clustering around the portal ignored the downpour and waved at a man cycling towards the screen on a sunny morning in Manhattan.He gazed back, waved and wobbled before recovering his balance and vanishing down Fifth Avenue, eliciting a cheer from the sodden observers on North Earl Street. Continue reading...
  
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• Hairy, scary and extraordinary: a playful, brutal show for art made from – and about – hair

  13-05-2024 17:00
  
  The Heide’s latest exhibition explores the power and politics of hair, through shoes made of wigs, a phallus of human hair and Marina AbramovicGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailSometimes the most ordinary objects hold the richest meaning. Human hair – that most primal extension of our bodies, both revered and reviled – has long fascinated artists, and a new exhibition at Heide museum, Hair Pieces, brings together 38 artists from eight countries who feature hair as thei
  
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• Magdalene Odundo review – quietly devastating defiance in an English stately home

  13-05-2024 16:33
  
  Houghton Hall, Norfolk
  Ceramics by Odundo at this Palladian mansion sit seamlessly yet purposefully alongside existing pieces, symbols of remembrance and the venue’s legacy of slaveryStanding proudly in the middle of a room of 18th- and 19th-century English heritage portrait paintings at Houghton Hall is a burnished terracotta vessel. The work, by Magdalene Odundo, stuns by its simplicity. As the bygone residents of the Palladian mansion depicted in the paintings gaze down superciliously,
  
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• More than meets the eye: Valérie Belin, master of mirage – in pictures

  13-05-2024 08:00
  
  The French photographer has been crowned Master of Photography at this year’s Photo London thanks to three decades of work exploring femininity and the bodyContinue reading...
  
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