11 h. ago Artist who created Chicago’s ‘Bean’ sculpture laments his work being used in CBP photos: ‘I find it utterly horrific’

Anish Kapoor called the decision to pose outside of his iconic sculpture a ‘self-congratulatory photo-op’

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21 h. ago Sex, lies and pistachio shells: the disturbing dream worlds of artist Joseph Yaeger

The American takes strange film stills and turns them into monumental watercolours, full of Catholic guilt and paranoia – and it’s made him the most talked-about painter of the moment‘All paintings are in their own way accusations and confessions,” says Joseph Yaeger. “It’s what Polygrapher is about.” This is the title of the artist’s new exhibition, his first since joining the prestigious London gallery Modern Art in 2024, for whom it marks the opening of new premises in St James’s.Honesty is important to Yaeger, whose upbringing in the US in Helena, a town that he says ambitiously calls itself the capital of Montana, was as decent as it was unremarkable. “We’d sit down for dinner together every night, we’d go to church every Sunday, we’re polite almost to a fault, and traditional in almost all senses of the word.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Colour, courage and cigarettes: David Hockney’s art of never slowing down

At 88, David Hockney is still reinventing the way we see. His new Mayfair show bursts with colour, wit and restless imagination – proof that age has done nothing to dim the artist’s curiosity or his joy in the world, writes Geordie Greig

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6 d. ago Court papers show luxury real estate brothers hope to prove witnesses lie at sex trafficking trial

Defense lawyers for two luxury real estate brokers and their brother say the men plan to prove at a January trial that many of the witnesses who will testify against them are lying

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7 d. ago Labour's promise to tighten prisoner release checks after migrant sex offender scandal lies in tatters after Wandsworth releases two more criminals by mistake

Algerian immigration offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif was released from HMP Wandsworth in south-west London by mistake last week and was still on the run last night.

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7 d. ago ‘A model of the transnational artist’: Cuban artist Wifredo Lam gets first US retrospective

The major modernist artist is finally getting a blockbuster exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, celebrating a career filled with innovationAlthough he was a major modernist artist whose collaborators ranged from European greats like Pablo Picasso and André Breton to new world giants like Aimé Césaire, Cuban artist Wifredo Lam has not seen a major US retrospective worthy of his stature. That changes with the MoMA’s blockbuster show Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream.The product of years of work and dozens of collaborations with institutions and collectors around the world, When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream shows the entire sweep of a career that straddled eras. Lam is best-known for agglomerations of elongated and mysterious figures that borrow from cubism and surrealism, although the exhibition also shows different sides of this artist: lushly colored and textured pieces that verge on abstraction, sculptural heads that point toward the artist’s African roots, early figura...

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9 d. ago I told a white lie on our first date. We've been together for three years and he still doesn't know the truth

What started as a simple 'fib' quickly spiralled out of control - and there's no way out without damaging the relationship forever.

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9 d. ago Donald Trump crucified in prison suit as artist shocks world by asking 'saint or sinner'

Trump is now hanging from a cross in a prison suit in Switzerland to ask us if he's a 'saint or sinner?'

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