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yahoo.com | Alastair Sooke
Last year, when the Turner Prize turned 40, there were calls for it to be retired. While they were excessive – the 2024 edition was hardly egregious, and I relished the energy provided by the winner, Jasleen Kaur – there is a legitimate sense that the annual, £25,000 award is in the doldrums of a midlife crisis, and nowadays attracts mostly lukewarm enthusiasm, or, worse, indifference.
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telegraph.co.uk | Alastair Sooke
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3 days ago | 
worldofinteriors.com | Alastair Sooke
A soulful little girl in a blue striped dress appears at the start of this tender, spellbinding new exhibition in Paris, as depicted in a seemingly unfinished (yet signed) painting by Henri Matisse. This arresting, dark-eyed child, with skin as pale as the moon, is the artist’s daughter, Marguerite, whom he portrayed more than any other model or sitter – including his wife, and her stepmother, Amélie Parayre.
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4 days ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Alastair Sooke
Annabelle Selldorf on environmental activism, flamboyant 'starchitects' and her controversial Sainsbury Wing renovation"It was very hurtful," says the 64-year-old German-born architect Annabelle Selldorf, recalling the criticism that she faced while renovating the National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing.
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flipboard.com | Alastair Sooke
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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Alastair Sooke
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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Alastair Sooke
There's a lot of sparkle to savour - and some sadness too - in this grand, wide-ranging exhibition at the King's GalleryA banner above this exhibition's threshold promises " the opulence and glamour of the Edwardian age ".
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2 weeks ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Alastair Sooke
The British star's biggest exhibition yet, opening in Paris, is an eye-opening, dopamine-unleashing triumphDressed in a flat cap and tweed suit (but, uncharacteristically, without a cigarette), David Hockney, 87, is whizzing on a mobility scooter around his colossal new retrospective in Paris. With more than 400 artworks produced, astonishingly, over seven decades, the exhibition is - fittingly, for an artist who relishes titles that contain the word "bigger" - his biggest yet.
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3 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Alastair Sooke
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telegraph.co.uk | Alastair Sooke
This mid-career survey may be pretentious, but the British artist manages to summon something sorcerous and compelling "I'm not a particularly sad person," the British artist Ed Atkins once said, with a rueful giggle, "but a lot of the work ends up coming out quite miserable." You don't say! Saturated with references to loss and grief, his mid-career survey at Tate Britain - which premieres a new, feature-length film in which the actor Toby Jones narrates a diary kept by his father following...
