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• Frances McDormand on her adult-sized cradle art project: ‘It’s not performative, it’s experiential’

  25-11-2025 16:41
  A Shakers-inspired exhibition has united the three-time Oscar winner and conceptual artist Suzanne BocanegraA small-town police chief of plainspoken decency in Fargo. A working-class mother driven to seek justice for her daughter in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. A modest, resilient woman finding dignity in life on the road in Nomadland.The actor Frances McDormand’s three Oscar-winning performances display rare versatility but have empathy at their core. But qualities were on d
  
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• Turner & Constable review – boiling portentous skies versus two men and a dog

  25-11-2025 16:14
  Tate Britain, LondonJMW Turner is beaten by John Constable in this mighty show. But who cares when the work is so sublime you can hear the squelching and smell the river?Turner or Constable: who’s the boss? Tate Britain’s exhibition of work by the two artists, subtitled Rivals and Originals, fudges the question. Born a year apart and both alumni of the Royal Academy schools in London, each was keenly aware of what the other was doing, in a British art world that was as febrile and co
  
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