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‘We can all coexist’: artist Es Devlin uses selfies to unite UK in portrait of a nation

A National Portrait for the National Portrait Gallery aims to bring people together in increasingly atomised country

The Guardian - UK

Schwarzman Centre opening concerts – a magnificent new monument to secular culture

The Sohmen Concert Hall’s acoustics made Scottish Ensemble’s Shostakovich and Tchaivoksky pinprick clear, while the Great Hall showcased Devlin and Muhly’s ‘choral installation’

The Guardian - UK

What can 160-million-year-old clay tell us about AI and ethics? Inside Es Devlin’s tech and pottery summit

The great artist and designer has summoned spiritual leaders, AI researchers and academics to try their hands at ceramics – and debate their wide-ranging positions on where tech is taking humanity

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Is 'Tristan' the hardest opera to stage? This director thinks so, and signed on at the Met

Opera director Yuval Sharon has said that Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” is the hardest work in the traditional repertoire to stage

The Independent UK

Art by Grayson Perry and Es Devlin among works going up for Palestine auction

The auction – organised by Choose Love, Gideon Berger Studio, Hope 93 Gallery and art dealer Zayna Al-Saleh – will take place later this month.

Evening Standard

The 12 London exhibitions you have to see in 2026

Lucien Freud, Tracey Emin, Marilyn Monroe, Anish Kapoor, Frida Kahlo, Es Devlin and Kate Moss are making it a star-filled year in art

Evening Standard

Chef, theatre designer and football chief to advise Sadiq Khan on pedestrianising Oxford Street

New board members told to walk, cycle or catch the bus - and not to put taxis or flights on their expenses

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Bastille and Damon Albarn among artists announced for Brian Eno’s Palestine gig

The event will take place at the OVO Arena Wembley next month.

Evening Standard

Lineup announced for Palestine benefit concert at Wembley Arena, helmed by Brian Eno

Artists including Damon Albarn, Paloma Faith, Sampha and Jamie xx to perform alongside Palestinian artists at Together for Palestine on 17 September

The Guardian - UK

New designers to look out for in 2025 – from 3D printed buildings to fuzzy chairs made from agave

The UK’s top creatives have put together a list of makers who put sustainability first. Using everything from reclaimed rattan and bacteria-dyed fabrics to algorithmic design, these trailblazers are making positive steps forward for people and planet

The Guardian - UK

Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: Es Devlin reflects on the past and imagines the future

British artist and stage designer Es Devlin works across mediums, celebrating public participation in exhibitions, large-scale performances and immersive installations that frequently combine music, language and light. Interviewed by Hannah Silver

Wallpaper

Es Devlin’s large-scale choral installation celebrates London’s displaced population

Es Devlin has partnered with UK for UNHCR on a free and open-to-all exhibition, ‘Congregation’, in London from 3-9 October 2024

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Frieze London 2024: everything to see and do

As London gears up for Frieze Week (9-13 October 2024), here are the must-sees inside and outside the fair

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‘Our Romeo even impressed the school bullies’: stars of stage on the power of drama in schools

Being taught drama can transform your life. Actor David Oyelowo, writer James Graham, set designer Es Devlin and more recall their own awakenings – and their inspirational, unforgettable teachers

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‘We need safe routes’: artist Es Devlin to open refugee portrait show

Fifty drawings of displaced people will be shown in a London church, in collaboration with UN refugee agency

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Es Devlin and BMW reveal hydrogen-fuelled collaboration at Art Basel 2024

Es Devlin and BMW celebrate the potential of hydrogen power in installations unveiled at Art Basel 2024, including a take on the BMW iX5 Hydrogen

Evening Standard

Brian Eno starts climate activist army

His non-violent think tank aims to drive change through art and conversation

The Guardian - UK

A cultural manifesto to breathe new life into our dying high streets

Letter: Flexible auditoriums and art displays from museums could help to revive urban community spaces, says Peter Higgins

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‘Engage their curiosity’: immersive art can boost UK high streets, says artist

Es Devlin says defunct department stores could be art buildings, and big screens ‘reclaimed’ for public for art

WEKU

Up First briefing: Israel-Hamas truce collapses; DeSantis and Newsom debate takeaways

Israel resumed airstrikes in Gaza after its cease-fire with Hamas collapsed. The debate between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was a clash of ideologies.

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Es Devlin retrospective opens at New York’s Cooper Hewitt

‘An Atlas of Es Devlin’ surveys the British set designer and installation artist’s 30-year career (on view until 11 August 2024)

The Guardian - UK

Free Your Mind review – The Matrix triumphantly reloaded by Danny Boyle and co

This dance adaptation of the cult sci-fi movie is a work of breathtaking ambition that fully inhabits Manchester’s stunning new £240m venue

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Es Devlin’s cultural highlights

The set designer and artist on the most extraordinary opera, a gut-wrenching Sudanese-American poet and a writer’s new angle on economics

The Guardian - UK

Free Your Mind review – Danny Boyle’s Matrix reboot is a thrilling shock to the system

The director’s collaboration with hip-hop dance company Boy Blue, designer Es Devlin and writer Sabrina Mahfouz conveys the march of AI

The Guardian - AU

Salamander review – Brisbane festival opens with a world-class dance epic

Inspired by JG Ballard’s The Drowned World and set in a Perspex maze created by Beyoncé’s stage designer, this dystopian dance-theatre show is truly unique

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