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Zineb Sedira: Dreams Have No Titles review – magic moments in the bar that can take you anywhere

The French Algerian artist keeps us suspended between the real and the fictive, past and present, as we go on a romp through cinematic classics

The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2024

Aditi Mangaldas: Forbidden review – a post-menopausal play for sexual pleasure

Leading Indian kathak performer Mangaldas explores her desire and confronts the double standards around men’s and women’s sexuality

The Guardian - UK · Oct 15, 2023

Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters

This corporate gathering full of artists’ drab, desperate attempts to get bought by clueless rich collectors has domesticated contemporary art and thus killed it

The Guardian - UK · Oct 11, 2023

‘Larger than life’: Tina Turner outfits to star in V&A’s Diva exhibition

Immersive show includes talk by late singer’s designer Bob Mackie as well as items worn by Prince and Elton John

The Guardian - UK · Jun 20, 2023

Toy trends for 2023: from Lego flower power to Traitors the board game

Show in London gives glimpse of what children – and growing numbers of ‘kidults’ – will be playing with this year

The Guardian - UK · Jan 28, 2023

Another amazing year for female artists. So why are they still stifled and impoverished?

From the Turner shortlist to the Venice Biennale and more, 2022 was another dazzling year for women. But, away from the headlines, a cold look at the data shows equality is generations away

The Guardian - UK · Dec 14, 2022

Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope review – a wonder weaver

The radical, grand-scale textile sculptures of the late Polish artist are a sensory delight in this sensitively curated show

The Guardian - UK · Nov 20, 2022

Thousands demand general election in protest march amid the worsening cost-of-living crisis

A coalition of trade unions and community organisations took part in the “Britain is Broken” protest in central London today

Daily Mirror · Nov 5, 2022

Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu; Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre review – the world worn down

The cavernous Turbine Hall has become a spectral memory forest as Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña mourns the destruction of the Amazon rainforest

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2022

‘Pose with the pumpkins? I’d rather meet the meteorite’ – Frieze art fair review

Painting is back in vogue at the giant art fair. But it’s superficial and silly rather than sleazy and shocking. The Masters section is where the work to lust over is – with an actual space rock for sale

The Guardian - UK · Oct 12, 2022