Art

Exhibition of the weekHallyu! The Korean WaveInfectiously bold survey of South Korea’s pop culture that also manages to squeeze in some solid history. Read our five-star review. V&A, London, from 24 SeptemberAlso showingWilliam…
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August 2022. Mid-morning at the St James Theatre, New York City. Outside, a billboard announces the show Into the Woods, the hot-ticket revival of Stephen Sondheim’s musical fantasy set in the world of fairy tales. Inside the theatre, a…
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Cedric Morris was prolific both as an artist and as a gardener, painting as many flowers, landscapes and animals as he bred variations of irises in his garden at Suffolk’s Benton End. This is just as well, as Cedric Morrises are more in…
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“Everyone is a murderer. You just need a good reason and a bad day,” says Jefferson Grieff, who, as a leading professor of criminology and a convicted killer, is something of an authority on the subject. He is the main man of this…
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The “Sparkle Beings” of the album’s title are friends, colleagues and historical figures who stimulate the mind and help the imagination fly. For pianist Angelica Sanchez, an angular rhythmic strand stretching from Duke Ellington to…
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The architect and designer Max Clendinning was a protean talent who turned his hand to buildings, interiors, furniture and art. Neoclassicism, Modernism, Pop Art: he referenced them all in his own way — eluding categorisation.A…
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Our personal style signifier is shoes, collar and tie. Gilbert: The responsibility suits of our art. George: That’s what we called it in 1969. It’s deliberate; we dress like this so as not to alienate any section of society. And you can…
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Beth Orton’s new album opens at dawn. It’s a customary, even stereotypical, time of day in which to encounter the UK singer-songwriter. She made her name in the 1990s as the so-called “comedown queen”, singing thoughtful folk-rock…
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Following on the heels of the recent panoramic rhetoric — Britain, a land grieving as one, etc — comes a less reverent state of the nation address from Hastings band Kid Kapichi. “You’re such a fool, Britannia,” they chorus on “New…
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James Hayes and Laura Searle“The first time I met James, I crashed into a barbecue in the garden. It was quite an entrance,” says Laura Searle, a slender 33-year-old Spaniard with an elegant, almost feline poise. Searle was studying at the…
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