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• ‘Some see religion – others porn’: Louise Giovanelli on the paintings that made Manchester hot

  09-12-2024 17:00
  
  Warned she would never get collectors to the ‘grim north’, the artist is now at the forefront of a booming scene. She discusses celebrity worship, her working-class art school – and why she’s obsessed with curtainsThere is no other person in sight when I show up at the Maple industrial estate in Ardwick, Manchester. The sprawling, red-bricked complex has the air of an army barracks or an airport hangar. Doors are shuttered, the grass is overgrown, and discarded car parts
  
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• ‘It’s about total freedom’: Jeff Wall on his photographs of fallen horse riders and flooded graves

  09-12-2024 09:00
  
  A new exhibition displays 40 years of work by the artist who stages scenes to painstakingly replicate the images in his mind – and some, he says, are definitely easier than othersJeff Wall has long been championed as the master of slow looking. Back in 1985, the year before he turned 40, the British Columbia-born artist received a tip from a close friend. He had, by that point, published landmark scholarly essays, held professorships and made some seminal images, though not that many. His
  
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