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- 6 September: Why the legacy of East Germany’s prefab housing blocks is more relevant than ever - Exhibitions | The Guardian
Once considered progressive, then later derided, a new exhibition is exploring the developments’ place as part of a collective experience
Communist East Germany’s high-rise prefab residential blocks and their political and cultural impact in what was one of the biggest social housing experiments in history is the focus of a new art exhibition, in which the unspoken challenges of today’s housing crisis loom large.
Wohnkomplex (living complex) Art and Life in Prefabs explores the legacy of the collective experience of millions of East Germans, as well as serving as a poignant reminder that the “housing question”, whether under dictatorship or democracy, is far from being solved.
Continue reading... - 5 September: Rest assured, the Bayeux tapestry will be transported here safely | Letters - Exhibitions | The Guardian
British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan describes the intricate planning that has been taking place. But Mark Vaughan thinks an animated display would be better
For the first time in almost 1,000 years, the Bayeux tapestry will come to Britain. In 2026, it will be displayed at the British Museum as part of a landmark cultural partnership with France, while the Bayeux Tapestry Museum in Normandy is closed during the construction of a landmark new building. In return, some of the UK’s greatest treasures – including the Lewis chessmen, the Sutton Hoo helmet, the Mold gold cape, and the Dunaverney flesh hook – will travel to Normandy.
Understandably, there has been interest in how these priceless items will be moved and concerns about their safety (‘La tapisserie, c’est moi’: Macron accused of putting politics first in Bayeux tapestry loan, 30 August). I want to be clear about the detailed work under way in both countries. Since a partnership agreement was signed earlier this summer, experts on both sides of the Channel have been carrying out rigorous planning and due diligence to ensure the safe transport and conservation of the tapestry. Colleagues in France are preparing for its careful removal before work begins on their new museum, and intricate plans are being made for its journey to London. This expert-led collaboration – indeed, supported for 12 years by one of our leading specialists on the Bayeux scientific committee – will guide every stage, including a full dry run of the journey.
Continue reading... - 5 September: David Bowie’s final project was 18th century musical, new V&A exhibition reveals - Exhibitions | The Guardian
A forthcoming display of the singer’s archive includes sticky notes detailing a theatrical work called The Spectator, about a petty thief and high-class gangs in London
David Bowie’s final project prior to his death in 2016 was an 18th-century musical called The Spectator, a forthcoming extensive exhibition of Bowie’s archive at the V&A East Storehouse has revealed.
The work was based around a daily newspaper of the same name that ran between 1711 and 1712, documenting the mores of society in London. Bowie’s notes reveal that he considered the publicly beloved petty thief Jack Sheppard as a potential lead character, as well as Jonathan Wild, the vigilante who was responsible for Sheppard being arrested and executed. He also focused on the Mohocks, a notorious gang of high-class young men who would get drunk and attack people on the streets.
Continue reading... - 5 September: Prized paintings, unburied treasures and murderous Millais – the week in art - Exhibitions | The Guardian
The John Moores prize names its next stars, Renaissance booty is uncovered in Bath and a lover’s brothers plan a beheading – all in your weekly dispatch
John Moores painting prize
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Davina Jackson, Katy Shepherd and Joanna Whittle are among the painters shortlisted for this prize that was once won by a young David Hockney
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool from Saturday until 1 March 2026 - 4 September: Catch a break: surf adventures in the California sun – in pictures - Exhibitions | The Guardian
Surfer Todd Weaver takes magical pictures of the Golden State – from ombre skies reflected in the sea to crashing waves and rising full moons
Continue reading... - 3 September: Young and in love: an intimate look at Los Angeles – in pictures - Exhibitions | The Guardian
Paul Jasmin, who died in May, helped define the visual language of LA and its youthful dreamers – as these sensual, glowing portraits prove
Continue reading... - 2 September: Mona Hatoum Encounters: Giacometti review – a meeting of marvellously macabre minds - Exhibitions | The Guardian
Barbican, London
This extraordinary show is a conversation, across the decades, between two kindred artists who refuse to shy away from the world’s horror and painMona Hatoum’s show begins with an indelible afterimage of modern war. Into a stack of welded steel boxes resembling an apartment block in a city that could be anywhere, Hatoum has melted or blasted holes imitating drone or missile strikes. Parts of interior walls and floors have been shorn away to look like apartments with their fronts blown off. This is the shell of what was once a home to many, emptied out by war, like the buildings you saw on the news last night.
Hatoum created Bourj, which means “tower” in Arabic, for an exhibition in Beirut, the city where she was born into a Palestinian family in 1952. Since 1975 she has been based in London but her art knows no peace. Home and family are perforated by violence. A steel cot resembling a prison cell has cheese wire in place of a soft mattress. A kitchen with small chairs for the kids, alongside larger ones for mum and dad, has been incinerated, and the carbonised fragments of wooden furniture painstakingly reassembled inside wire mesh replicas of what they looked like before the disaster.
Continue reading... - 2 September: ‘Artefacts were just sitting in suitcases in people’s homes’: the London museum preserving Somali culture - Exhibitions | The Guardian
The UK’s first dedicated space for Somali heritage has built its collection from 15 years of donations. Culture House’s founders explain the power of giving a permanent home to a community’s heritage and hopes
You could probably walk right past Culture House without noticing it. Tucked away, just off the bustle of London’s Uxbridge Road, the building’s muted colours, simple sign and arched doorway give little away. Step inside, though, and you’ll soon be enticed by what is the UK’s first permanent exhibition and cultural space dedicated to Somali heritage.
Officially opened last May, Culture House features a collection of over 150 artefacts, a rotating exhibition, poetry workshops and a digital archive. It has quickly developed a reputation as a hub for the UK’s Somali community, while drawing in curious visitors from outside the diaspora too. Non-profit group the Anti-Tribalism Movement, who lead the project, say the aim is to “celebrate, preserve and connect” Somali culture and communities.
Continue reading... - 1 September: Seriously committed to weight training | Brief letters - Exhibitions | The Guardian
Gym sessions | Richard Tice | Men’s Hundred final | Y Ddraig Goch | Politicians learning | Postcards from Palestine
When giving advice about protein intake linked to exercise, the performance nutritionist Bethan Crouse says: “If you are just a casual gym-goer doing resistance training three to four times a week” Is it true that … you should eat protein immediately after working out?, 1 September). I was surprised that this training was described as casual. I would suggest the other 99.9% of non-elite humans would consider this level of commitment regular, dare I say even serious.
Diego Penagos
Surbiton, London• It is clear that Richard Tice neither believes in free speech nor understands the Christian gospel, since he thinks the archbishop of York should not “interfere with international migration policies” (Richard Tice hits back at C of E criticism of Reform immigration policy, 31 August). Does he plan to tell Christians the matters on which we are now allowed to express opinions?
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Michael Sanderson
Elsecar, South Yorkshire - 31 August: David Hockney’s 90-metre Normandy nature frieze to be shown in London - Exhibitions | The Guardian
A Year in Normandy features iPad works with which British artist brought people comfort during Covid crisis
In the spring of 2020, as the Covid-19 virus was “going mad”, David Hockney kept himself busy by painting winter trees bursting into blossom in his Normandy garden. “Many people said my drawings were a great respite from what was going on,” Britain’s pre-eminent living artist said at the time.
Citizens of the post-pandemic world, with its rollercoaster of conflict, rightwing populism, climate crisis and techno-revolution, may still be in need of Hockney’s respite by next spring. They will find it at an exhibition of his extraordinary 90-metre frieze, A Year in Normandy, and other works at the Serpentine gallery in London.
Continue reading... - 29 August: Golden gifts, spindly sculptures and an etching innovator – the week in art - Exhibitions | The Guardian
Mona Hatoum goes hammer and tongs with Giacometti, Andrew Geddes is revealed as a pioneer and Saint Nick rocks up four months early – all in your weekly dispatch
Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum
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Second in a sparky series of shows comparing sculptors of today to the 20th-century legend who captured the slender survival of the human spirit in spindly simplified figures.
• Barbican, London, 3 September to 11 January - 29 August: UK bans Israeli officials from flagship defence show - Exhibitions | The Guardian
Israel says Britain’s decision to exclude it from military weapons showcase is a ‘regrettable act of discrimination’
The UK has banned Israeli officials from attending the country’s flagship defence event next month.
Israeli industry, including UK subsidiaries of Israeli companies, will be able to attend London’s Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) show in September but the UK government will not invite representatives of the Israeli government to the major industry event.
Continue reading... - 25 August: ‘Overwhelming and sublime’: the primal power of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s cinematic art - Exhibitions | The Guardian
The Cannes-winning film-maker’s latest work, created specially for Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, is a tribute to his obsession with the magic of light and shadow
As a child, while other kids were playing with toys, Apichatpong Weerasethakul was content with a flashlight. “That was enough: the shadows on the wall or the blanket,” he says. “I chose to work in cinema because of that feeling of taking me back to childhood, that freedom and curiosity.”
This primal fascination with light and shadow has fuelled a career spanning three decades, across experimental features and video works, feted by the likes of the Cannes film festival and London’s Tate Modern.
Continue reading... - 22 August: Gower power, deep-sea dances and a millennial male prayer – the week in art - Exhibitions | The Guardian
Anna Boghiguian sinks a boat in Margate, Emma Critchley takes soundings in St Ives and Guy Oliver examines his masculine identity in Edinburgh – all in your weekly dispatch
Anna Boghiguian: The Sunken Boat: A Glimpse Into Past Histories
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Decayed and broken boats, puppet-like figures and sand feature in a salty installation about the sea as a space of world history.
• Turner Contemporary, Margate, until 26 October - 21 August: Africans who fought in the second world war deserve fair recompense | Letter - Exhibitions | The Guardian
Simon Diggins says African veterans were awarded settlements that were one-third of that given to British soldiers or white settlers from Africa
Thank you for highlighting the new exhibition at the National Army Museum, commemorating the invaluable service of Indian and African soldiers in the second world war (London museum tells forgotten story of African and Indian troops in second world war, 14 August). I had the honour of serving with Ghanaian, Nigerian and Sierra Leonean soldiers in west Africa in 1999-2000 and they remembered, with pride, their forefathers’ campaigning in Burma; rightly so – the battles in the Arakan in 1943 were some of the hardest fought in the war.
Far less honourable has been successive British governments’ refusal to treat African veterans, who fought so bravely for us, equitably. At the end of their service, African veterans were awarded a settlement one-third of that given to British soldiers or white settlers from Africa: it was straightforward racial discrimination.
Continue reading... - 17 August: ‘Your work changed the course of my entire life’: novelist Douglas Stuart meets painter Jenny Saville - Exhibitions | The Guardian
He was a struggling 16-year-old when he first saw her paintings. Now, the Booker prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain sits down with the record-breaking artist to talk early success, bad reviews, and the joys of making art
In the summer of 1992, I was a 16-year-old who was watching his mother drink herself to death. I had a desperate need to find work and somewhere to stay, and so remaining in education didn’t seem like a possibility. I had two teachers who saw how I was struggling. They dreamed a future for me that I could never have imagined for myself. One evening they took me up to the degree show at the Glasgow School of Art, and there I came face to face with the paintings of Jenny Saville.
The power of that encounter has never left me. Those images were fierce and confrontational. A few months after the degree show, I lost my mother to her addiction. With the support of my teachers, I eventually finished school and went on to art school and built a career in design. Meanwhile, the GSA degree show formed a body of work that would lead to Jenny’s ascension into the Young British Artist movement – with her works appearing on the covers of Manic Street Preachers’ albums The Holy Bible and Journal for Plague Lovers – and help cement her reputation as one of the greatest British painters of any generation.
Continue reading... - 15 August: ‘We made it our catwalk’: the photos showing Black British women’s Saturday night fashion through the ages - Exhibitions | The Guardian
Archivist Deborah Carnegie has gathered 70 years’ worth of photos of women from the Windrush generation to the present day getting ready for a big evening out – and changing the face of fashion in the UK as they went
Before the beat drops, there is first the bedroom. A hot comb sizzling fresh from the stove, the gentle whirring of a sewing machine. A group of women cross-legged on the floor, swapping clothes and gossip: who got turned away at the club door last weekend? Who might show up tonight?
For the London-based archivist Deborah Carnegie, there is something atavistic and sacred about the pre-night out ritual, in particular for Black British women. It is the subject of her latest work, a photography archive spanning 1950 to the present day, chronicling Black British women’s Saturday night fashion across the decades.
Continue reading... - 15 August: Wintry chills and an alter ego in Edinburgh, plus surreal toys in London – the week in art - Exhibitions | The Guardian
Scottish artist Victoria Crowe serves up an evocative rural portrait, Nkem Okwechime explores his other self and domestic objects get strange – all in your weekly dispatch
Victoria Crowe: Shifting Surfaces
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To mark the 80th birthday of this Scottish artist, this evocative survey brings together some of her rural portraits and wintry landscapes.
• Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, until 11 October - 14 August: London museum tells forgotten story of African and Indian troops in second world war - Exhibitions | The Guardian
National Army Museum’s Beyond Burma exhibition examines stories of soldiers from Britain’s colonies
The forgotten story of African and Indian troops who fought in south Asia against Japanese forces during the second world war and who have largely been omitted from the official history is to be brought to life in a London exhibition.
The National Army Museum’s Beyond Burma: Forgotten Armies show includes rare items from Indian and African soldiers who toiled in some of the harshest conditions seen anywhere during the conflict.
Continue reading... - 10 August: Be warned about the dangers of tanning | Brief letters - Exhibitions | The Guardian
Extreme tanning | Art nouveau paradise | AI history | Plane travel | Slicing salami | Heightism
I can’t tell you how sad this article makes me (Burn notice: Gen Z and the terrifying rise of extreme tanning, 6 August). Sunbeds and extreme tanning cause skin cancer. My son, aged 23, discovered a mole on his back. It took quite a bit of persuasion for him to go to his GP. Seemed quite simple: cut it out, end of. The mole became more moles, more operations. It then became his arms, then his lungs, and then two brain tumours. Two years from his diagnosis, he died. I would plead with people to avoid sunbeds, tanning without sun cream and complacency. I will never get over the death of my son.
Ruth Heggarty
Sheffield• It is indeed regrettable that art nouveau has long been neglected generally in France (Editorial, 8 August), but the city of Nancy is an outstanding exception. Furniture, glass and other works by Émile Gallé, Louis Majorelle and others are richly represented in the Musée de l’École de Nancy. The Musée des Beaux Arts de Nancy has extensive collections, and the Villa Majorelle, the designer’s former home, is devoted to his work. An essential destination for the enthusiast.
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Ron Wells
Eastbourne, East Sussex
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