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Entertainment·30th October 2015‘And Breathe…’ is a welcome breath of fresh air Daniel Haynes Jayne Wilton has spent the last decade exploring the act of breathing, collaborating variously with particle physicists to capture the... Read More
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Entertainment·11th June 2015Sherlock Holmes: has the great detective still got it? Emma-Jane Hampsheir-Gill Although I was asked to write on a fictional character I secretly wish was real, I unashamedly confess that not... Read More
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Entertainment·7th May 2015Review: Sonia Delaunay at the Tate Modern Alexander Hartley Sonia Delaunay’s work crackles with the electric charge of modernity. Hers is a world of garish streetlights, Paris ballrooms, high-speed... Read More
Entertainment·7th May 2015Emin’s bed returns to the Tate Francesca Rogers Tracey Emin’s art has brought her notoriety in the form of violently divided opinion: she is regarded as provocative, attention-seeking,... Read More
Entertainment·1st May 2015Treasures from afar: Banana Yoshimoto William Shaw Kitchen, the English-language debut of Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto, like the most of the books I buy these days (perpetually... Read More
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