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‘Everything in Oxford was built with dodgy money’ – iconoclastic professor and fourth plinth artist Samson Kambalu
As he prepares to unveil his fourth plinth sculpture, the cigar-smoking, boxing-glove-wearing artist talks about hat-banning colonialists, his journey from Africa to Oxford – and the joys of renouncing ambition
Read more » | Desktop version »September design news: Francis Bacon and fry-up chic
Green graduates set to save the future, turning scraps into kitchen knives and new art from director Mark Cousins
Read more » | Desktop version »Artist Rene Matić: ‘This story is about what, if anything, saves us’
At the heart of this young trailblazer’s solo show is a film following their father, Paul, a black skinhead – it is joyful, moving, and surprising
Read more » | Desktop version »‘I want a president who has been gaybashed’: America’s underground anthem
Zoe Leonard wanted a leader who had been on welfare, lost a lover to Aids, and much more. Sadly her plea, penned in 1992 and later displayed beneath New York’s High Line, is just as relevant today
Read more » | Desktop version »Sebastião Salgado: ‘I was transformed into an environmentalist’
The famed photographer is mounting a large-scale exhibition to raise funds for his ecological center in Brazil
Read more » | Desktop version »William Kentridge review – never ceases to mesmerise
The spectres of oppression and its victims in his country and beyond are conjured by the South African artist William Kentridge in an epic show spanning 40 years
Read more » | Desktop version »Yinka Ilori: Parables for Happiness review – the brighter the better
Flamingo-pink playgrounds, morale-boosting billboards… the designer transforms places with bold, playful colour, as explored in a new show
Read more » | Desktop version »Cleaners at Amsterdam gallery ordered to let insects run wild in name of art
Spiders and creepy crawlies allowed to colonise Rijksmuseum to show how perceptions have changed through the ages
Read more » | Desktop version »The big picture: Kavi Pujara’s ode to Leicester’s Golden Mile
Kavi Pujara captures the ‘poetry of homes and street corners’ of Leicester’s Hindu community during more peaceful times
Read more » | Desktop version »Penis straws and obscene quilts: the artist turning junk into a queer church
Paul Yore’s spectacular installations are arresting, playful and nostalgic – but look a little deeper to find a darker message
Read more » | Desktop version »Marina Abramović’s Gates and Portals review – why surrender your liberty to these wafer-thin ideas?
The artist is not present in her latest show. Instead, visitors are shuffled about by volunteers trained in her Method, with a hint of Blair Witch ritual
Read more » | Desktop version »A wave of Korean art, the sound of Turner and Freud goes to the races – the week in art
The V&A’s new show is a dazzling historical remix, Tate Liverpool sets an English master to music, while Lucian Freud’s love for the turf is revealed – all in your weekly dispatch
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