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• Poet and artist Jay Bernard: ‘I think our problem today is technical illiteracy’

  09-02-2025 10:30
  
  The award-winning poet and artist on exploring attitudes around Brexit, using AI in their work, and swapping London for ParisBorn in 1988, Jay Bernard is a British poet, artist and film programmer born in London. Their multimedia project Surge: Side A, about the 1981 New Cross house fire, won the Ted Hughes award in 2017. Their debut poetry collection, Surge, won the 2020 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year award and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize and the Costa bo
  
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• Noah Davis review – LA painter of everyday black life is a revelation

  09-02-2025 10:00
  
  Barbican Art Gallery, London
  Of the moment yet steeped in the past, the dreamlike work of Noah Davis, who died a decade ago aged 32, radiates deep humanity in this beautiful retrospectiveNoah Davis (1983-2015) was a great painter, a pioneer of free culture in black working-class Los Angeles and a terrible loss to contemporary art. He died of cancer at the age of 32, leaving a young family, a wildly unconventional gallery and several hundred strange and immemorial paintings.In LA he is especially
  
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