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• From plastic bags to shoelaces, the art in this California show is made entirely of trash

  27-10-2024 15:00
  
  The Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco has curated a show of ‘alchemized’ toothpaste caps, zip ties, broken computer keys and perfume spray tubesAs a young artist, Miguel Arzabe visited art shows around the US to learn from others’ work. But his biggest source of inspiration were the exhibit catalogues. Fascinated by the documents, he decided to make his own work out of the books themselves.He cut the pages into thin strips and wove them into a large, intricate And
  
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• The World of Tim Burton review – a tour around a singular creative mind

  27-10-2024 12:00
  
  Design Museum, London
  The director of Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands et al is the subject of an immersive touring show that ranges from his drawings since childhood to Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman outfit. Something for everyone then…“These are just great,” said an art teacher to the teenage Tim Burton about his drawings. “You keep it up and don’t ever stop.” He didn’t. He kept on drawing, on napkins and menus, in hundreds of sketchbooks; on the
  
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• On my radar: Jacques Audiard’s cultural highlights

  27-10-2024 10:30
  
  The film director on the music he works to, educating himself via podcasts, and why the Paris Olympics was a pleasant surpriseJacques Audiard was born in Paris in 1952, the son of the prolific screenwriter and director Michel Audiard. He began writing films in the mid-1970s and made his directorial debut in 1994 with See How They Fall. He won Baftas for The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) and A Prophet (2010) and the Cannes Palme d’Or with Dheepan in 2015. Audiard’s latest film, Em
  
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• Artist Lauren Halsey: ‘So much of what I make is in response to the context of funk’

  27-10-2024 10:00
  
  The LA artist says her musically inspired, architectural works are deeply rooted in her South Central neighbourhood as she opens her debut solo UK show“Funk is oxygen. It’s life,” according to Lauren Halsey. The Los Angeles artist can recall the day that funk music changed her life. It was the early 00s and she was on her parents’ computer, downloading music from the filesharing website LimeWire, as she did every night, when she happened upon the entire discography of the
  
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• Where punk meets Catholicism: Andrea Modica’s portraits of 1980s schoolgirls

  27-10-2024 09:00
  
  While a photography student at Yale, Modica visited her old school and found the captivating subject she’d been looking for: teens whose big hair, eyeliner and rolled-up skirts still radiate personality decades laterIn the afterword to her new book Catholic Girl, which documents teenagers at Catholic girls’ schools in New York and New Haven in the mid-1980s, the photographer Andrea Modica likens the experience of initiating the project to a first kiss. “You’re mad about t
  
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• ‘The world will remember this war not through reportage but through art’: the creatives on Ukraine’s frontline

  27-10-2024 06:00
  
  Poets, artists, playwrights and musicians are fighting and dying in Ukraine, and their work is capturing the horror and emotion of the conflictYaryna Chornohuz is a poised, thoughtful young woman with a sweep of long hair, elegantly manicured nails, and a military uniform. In 2019, she joined a volunteer unit as a combat medic, and is now a soldier of the 140th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion. At 29, she is also fast becoming one of Ukraine’s most celebrated poets.From the perspective of
  
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• The weirdest thing about stripping naked with 5,500 people? It didn’t feel weird at all | Monique Ross

  27-10-2024 04:34
  
  I was braced to feel ashamed about my body while taking part in Spencer Tunick’s latest mass nude shoot in Brisbane – but the worst part was setting my alarm for 1.45amGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI had already been nude for a solid seven minutes when renowned artist Spencer Tunick yelled into a megaphone: “Nobody should be naked yet – there’s still 45 minutes until sunrise!”The thousands of other naked people milling around came to a halt. We gl
  
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