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  'There is beauty there but it’s also a bit subverted': Ella Walker at Pilar Corrias

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  Ella Walker’s paintings are layered in every sense of the word. Informed by traditional painting techniques as well as drawing and collage, her pieces depict figures with knowing or emotionally complex expressions, inviting the viewer to untangle the rich scenes in front of them. For her first solo …

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  ‘Gas Tank City’, a new monograph by Andrew Holmes, is a photorealist eye on the American West

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  Photorealism has a strong connection to the American West, a landscape of signs and shapes, logos and colours, utterly in thrall to the combustion engine with all the chrome-plated glamour and ennui that entails. Andrew Holmes is the latest in a long line of artists to find fascination with this …

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  Balenciaga Music and Italian singer Mina collaborate on wearable music

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  The luxury fashion-house Balenciaga has announced its latest Balenciaga Music project in collaboration with Italian singer and style icon Mina. The Balenciaga Music platform was created to offer hand-selected playlists that reflect Balenciaga’s culture, and offer an immersive experience through …

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  Pharrell Williams on his new space-themed Lego set and movie

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  ‘Being the kind of child that daydreams all the time, depending on where you are daydreaming and what you're doing, can determine whether you are seen as a good student, or as a challenging student, or as a child with a lot of imagination,’ says Pharrell Williams. We are speaking over Zoom to mark …

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  Teresa Margolles’ sculpture for the Fourth Plinth pays tribute to trans communities

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  Mexico-born artist, photographer, videographer and performance artist, Teresa Margolles, today unveiled her sculpture for London’s Fourth Plinth. Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant) is the 15th artwork to be installed on the Fourth Plinth since Mark Wallinger’s Ecce Homo in 1999. …

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  Jobbing actors and the anxious young man: 'In Camera' on the unrelenting nature of acting

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  By his own admission there are least seven films woven into Naqqash Khalid’s debut feature In Camera, a singular picture that on its surface alone taps into the unrelenting nature of acting and the industry’s phoney relationship with identity politics. ‘Filmmaking is like an iceberg, a lot of stuff …