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theguardian.com | Skye Sherwin
Ken Kiff was a brilliant odd one out in post-second world war British painting. In works that sing with colour and texture, he crafted wibbly-wobbly fables in which eyes and noses slide around faces, animals tower over mountains and dreaming, desiring, questing men are rendered poignantly goofy.
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msn.com | Skye Sherwin
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Skye Sherwin
When Henri Matisse described his work as “in step with the future”, he was thinking about his revolutionary cutouts, made with collaged coloured paper, rather than, say, the evolution of the women’s movement or consumer culture. The leading Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury came of age with the latter, but when she was invited to select drawings and cutouts from the Matisse estate for an exhibition, she was struck by the enduring immediacy of his vision.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Skye Sherwin
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Skye Sherwin
As a child growing up in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1930s and 40s, John Lyons’ imagination was electrified by his homeland’s folklore, beliefs and rituals. There was the jumbie-owl, a ghost bird or harbinger of death, who flew between the world of spirits and the living, and the soucouyant, an elderly woman who wreaks havoc as a flying nocturnal fireball-vampire.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
msn.com | Skye Sherwin
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
msn.com | Skye Sherwin
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Skye Sherwin
It is tempting to see it as a happy ending. In Diedrick Brackens’s Ttowards the greenest place on earth, two Black men in the artist’s signature silhouette form throw an arm about each other’s waists, while holding opposite ends of a broom. Perhaps they’re about to enact the wedding folk ritual and jump backwards over the besom, or fly away on it like witches.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
msn.com | Rachel Aroesti |Catherine Bray |Andrew Clements |John Fordham |Skye Sherwin |Jenessa Williams | +1 more
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Rachel Aroesti |Andrew Clements |Catherine Bray |John Fordham |Skye Sherwin |Jenessa Williams | +1 more
1 DecPaul Heaton GlasgowIn support of the release of his 10th studio album The Mighty Several, Paul Heaton hits the arenas of the UK with his new sidekick, Rianne Downey. Alongside new material, the pair promise an array of Housemartins and Beautiful South hits, mapping the territories of British heartland pop with suitably wintery wit. JWOVO Hydro, and touring. 2 DecRuination at the Royal Opera House. Photograph: Camilla GreenwellRuination LondonA five-star show from dance-theatre company Lost Dog.
