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• ‘It still feels incredibly relevant’: the groundbreaking art of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

  11-02-2026 11:03
  Korean-American artist’s work has continued to resonate in many years since her tragic murder in 1982 at the age of 31If there’s one thing the late avant-garde artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha is known for, it’s almost certainly her experimental 1982 book Dictée, a hard-to-classify work that has become a mainstay of college curriculums and ambitious writers. Poet Juliana Spahr has described the work as “part autobiography, part biography, part personal diary, part ethn
  
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• Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting review – no, I don’t want to come up and see these etchings

  11-02-2026 01:01
  National Portrait Gallery, LondonFreud was a master painter, but his drawings ranged from ordinary to awful. Guess which aspect of his work this show focuses on? If painting is a fast car, drawing is more like taking the bus. At least that’s how it felt to me, puttering along on the 27 to Paddington that is the National Portrait Gallery’s trawl through Lucian Freud’s sketches, engravings and even childhood crayonings, daydreaming until my stop, with the occasional flash of colo
  
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