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Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life is at the Hayward Gallery until 3 May. The entire top floor — floor to ceiling, wall to wall — woven from black and red thread. Suitcases, keys, letters, beds, shoes suspended inside. She studied under Marina Abramović in Berlin. Started as a painter, then performance, then
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Scotland is its own world, nothing like England. Tartan everywhere, the air smells of hops, Harry Potter and witchcraft shops around every corner, and even the homeless guys drinking beer wear kilts. People are friendlier. The national dish? A deep-fried Mars bar. Not only all the pork things and my
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Rose Wylie: The Picture Comes First opened at the Royal Academy on 24 February. Over 90 works, the biggest show of her career. She now lives in Kent, paints every day and puts newspaper under her feet so paint doesn't ruin her shoes. She grew up in London
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Yin Xiuzhen doesn't use the word secondhand.
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A new Netflix documentary about the iconic reality show is out — and it holds nothing back. Bullying, Tyra's meltdowns, contestants in tears recounting forced makeovers, questionable photoshoots (a model in a salad. In front of homeless people. Models with their skin painted to "change their nationality"
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Latex dresses, Charli XCX, and egg yolk as foreplay — Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights doesn't care what you think.
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Notes from a sold-out London evening
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but everybody needs.
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I have a particular respect for authors who write about food not as a list of ingredients but as a cultural state of being.
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I spent two months trying to write about the Lee Miller exhibition at Tate Britain. Only now do I understand why it was so difficult.
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At Hayward Gallery, the legendary British duo turn their daily lives into a monumental portrait of faith, filth, and devotion.