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• ‘Pain is a violent lover’: Daisy Lafarge on the paintings she made when floored with agony

  03-02-2026 16:54
  Suffering from a connective tissue disorder and enduring endless calls to try and get benefits, the poet and novelist turned to painting – resulting in work that could change perceptions of disabled peopleDaisy Lafarge was lying on the floor in excruciating pain when she started her latest paintings. A severe injury, coupled with a sudden worsening of her health, had left her unable to sit upright, while brain fog and fatigue made reading and writing impossible. So the award-winning noveli
  
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• Artist Sarah Sze: ‘A work of art is finished when everything teeters’

  03-02-2026 11:04
  Renowned mixed media artist discusses her new exhibition and how it speaks to her personal experience and a wider concept of technologyWith just 13 pieces – 11 art objects and two video installations – artist Sarah Sze’s new showcase at Gagosian Beverly Hills packs a punch into a relatively pared-back show. The paintings themselves are substantial – as large as 8ft by 16ft – and their intricacy compels lengthy gazes. Furthermore, the artist has impeccably arranged t
  
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• Monsoons, mould … and a million visitors: welcome to Kerala’s ‘people’s biennale’

  03-02-2026 06:00
  Work by almost 70 artists – including Marina Abramović – has made an art fair in Kochi one of the hottest tickets in south Asia. This sixth instalment uses farmers’ fields and patched-up buildings to take visitors ‘back to nature’Say someone brings you a bouquet of flowers. You get a vase and one by one intuitively place each stem inside, allowing an arrangement to unfold on its own. It was on this level, as lead curator Nikhil Chopra suggests, that the Kochi-M
  
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