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A rollicking statue, Beryl’s buddies and a swimming pool in a roundabout – the week in art

A blue lady strides across the fourth plinth, Beryl Cook and friends gather in Bicester, and Spain repurposes a traffic junction

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Huge open-air installation to honour the late Beryl Cook

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Beryl Cook celebrated with mile-long installation to mark what would have been her 100th birthday

Fans will be able to pose alongside some of Cook’s most famous characters at Bicester Village

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Beryl Cook: Pride and Joy review – a saucy parade of bouncing bosoms, smirky smokers and a spot of BDSM

Roof-felters, bawdy boozers, off-duty sailors, whip-wielding dominatrixes … this 100th birthday show in Cook’s home town is an exuberant celebration of working-class frivolity

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‘Radical and joyous’: Beryl Cook show aims to prove she was a serious artist

Major retrospective in Plymouth, her adopted city, presents her as a skilful chronicler of social transformation

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Bawdy Beryl, slick Seurat, titanic Tracey and the glory of Gaudí: the best art shows and architecture in 2026

Must-sees include Beryl Cook’s postwar brilliance, Tracey Emin’s new highs, Frida Kahlo’s confessions, plus Google’s HQ and Gaudí’s finally finished fever dream

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‘Ordinary people enjoying themselves’: Beryl Cook exhibition to open in Plymouth

Exclusive: Show at The Box in artist’s home town spans entire career and includes previously unseen works

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Taylor Swift soap, saucy socks and Pet Shop Boys tea sets: it’s the culture Christmas gift guide 2024

From a Snoop Dogg firepit to a sweater celebrating the brutalist genius of Preston bus station, here are 40 fabulous festive suggestions for the culture vulture in your life

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Art, culture, watches & jewellery editor Hannah Silver’s gift guide

From a Beryl Cook cushion to an offbeat diamond ring, there's something for everyone on this Wallpaper* editor's gift guide, embracing art, culture and style

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The body, pleasure and play: Beryl Cook and Tom of Finland united in London

Tom of Finland’s homoeroticism meets Beryl Cook’s female-oriented camp as Studio Voltaire unites work by the two artists in a London exhibition

Wallpaper

Five of the biggest summer exhibitions around the UK – what you should see this week

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Beryl Cook and Tom of Finland exhibition: how an odd pairing bring out the best in each other

They are hung alternately, cheek to cheek, in a modest but thorough show at Studio Voltaire in London, two bodies of work that represent two seemingly disparate slices of 20th-century life.

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If we can respect fat bodies in Beryl Cook’s paintings, why can’t we do so in the street?

Cook’s curvy characters are glamorous, comfortable in their skins and uncompromising. In real life, I am constantly bombarded with fatphobia

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Beryl Cook/Tom of Finland review – ‘One’s trying to make you laugh, the other’s trying to make you horny’

From Tom’s pert-bottomed hunks to Cook’s curvacious ladies, both artists wanted to give pleasure

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Bottoms up! The joyfully lewd art of Beryl Cook and Tom of Finland

Once dismissed as bawdy kitsch, the two artists’ work has found a new generation of fans. A new exhibition celebrates their embrace of sexual liberation – and some ‘amazing bums’

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Gallery issues plea to collectors to loan original Beryl Cook works for exhibition

The show at Studio Voltaire, London, will explore the playful and political work of Cook and Finnish artist Tom of Finland

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Bernard Samuels obituary

Other lives: Director of Plymouth Arts Centre who gave early solo exhibitions to Beryl Cook and Ben Hartley

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