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• Serpentine pavilion 2024 review – Minsuk Cho’s multi-use design is bold and playful

  09-06-2024 12:00
  
  Kensington Gardens, London
  The South Korean architect has incorporated a climbing structure, a cafe and a library into an unpredictable space meant for coming together“Do a belly flop.” “Spread your arms like Jesus and then jump.” The photographers at the press view for the Serpentine pavilion are calling to me: I’ve ascended a rope climbing structure that is part of the design, and they fancy a shot of a moderately respectable gent flying on to a net underneath. If
  
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• Runner-up: Observer/Anthony Burgess prize 2024 – Anna McGee reviews Florence’s new museums depository

  09-06-2024 11:00
  
  A runner-up in our annual arts writing prize, Anna McGee celebrates the freeing from storage of thousands of previously unseen artworks, now on display at the city’s Santa Maria Novella museumRead the winning entry for the 2024 Observer/Burgess prizeAnna McGee is a PhD student of Florentine Renaissance art and architecture. She most recently published her work in the London Review of BooksFlorence has too much art. It’s heaving with it. Some is on display in the city’s 30-odd p
  
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• Discover Degas & Miss La La; Nan Goldin: Sisters, Saints, Sibyls – review

  09-06-2024 10:00
  
  National Gallery, London; Gagosian Open, 83 Charing Cross Road, London
  Degas’s masterpiece gives up its secrets in a fascinating show, while Nan Goldin pays powerful tribute to her sister, who took her own life at 18What can an image really tell us of a person? Two new shows turn upon that evergreen question. The National Gallery’s latest exhibition is ostensibly about one of Degas’s most famous subjects, Miss La La, Paris circus star, drawn and painted by him many times but to
  
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