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Year in review: top 10 art and culture stories of 2023, selected by Wallpaper’s Hannah Silver
Silver’s top 10 art and culture stories of 2023 include in-depth profiles, eclectic exhibitions, and arresting photography, and span from ANOHNI to Nan Goldin and Stephen Galloway
By Hannah Silver Published
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Joy, tenderness and intimacy are celebrated by artists in London
Photography and film-based artists currently based at Gathering, London, explore human experience in ‘Pictures of Us’
By Katie Tobin Published
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Nari Ward combines dance and materiality in London
Jamaican-born, New York-based Nari Ward reuses and reappropriates materials at Lehman Maupin in London
By Amah-Rose Abrams Published
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Paul Pfeiffer's digital image manipulations in LA dissect celebrity culture
The first US retrospective of multi-disciplinary artist Paul Pfeiffer’s work opens in LA at The Museum of Contemporary Art, candidly exploring modern society in the digital age
By Timothy Anscombe-Bell Published
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New London show offers a glimpse of tomorrow’s art sensations
The ‘New Contemporaries’ exhibition, at London’s Camden Art Centre, highlights the artists to watch
By Hannah Silver Published
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Curtains up on theatre set design stars of the year
Theatre set design talent is centre stage as the Linbury Prize and London’s National Theatre announce a new crop of stars
By Hannah Silver Published
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Patrick Martinez captures the passage of time in neon lights and graffiti, at ICA San Francisco
LA artist Patrick Martinez’s ‘Ghost Land’ is his most expansive presentation to date, on show at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco
By Anne Soward Published
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Step into timeless gaming design, as Nintendo’s Ocarina of Time marks 25 years
Why the design of Nintendo’s Ocarina of Time continues to amaze 25 years later
By Thomas Hobbs Published
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Artists explore the meaning of home through the lens of queer and trans domesticity in New York
Group exhibition ‘Dreaming of Home’, at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, uses a seminal Catherine Opie photograph as a springboard to explore the meaning of home today
By Hannah Silver Published
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Ghada Amer’s provocative embroidered texts speak of feminism and activism
Ghada Amer explores the power of words in ‘QR Codes Revisited – London’ at Goodman Gallery in London’s Mayfair
By Nargess Shahmanesh Banks Published
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Alex Israel uses BMW technology for AI-powered video installation
Alex Israel’s 'REMEMBR' at Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 uses AI technology to curate and choreograph a visitor’s phone camera content into a video installation across seven screens
By Pei-Ru Keh Published
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Artists consider magic, matter and memory at the Melbourne NGV Triennial
Melbourne’s NGV has opened its third triennial, uniting art, design and architecture from around the world
By Elias Redstone Published
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Lana Trzebinski’s ceramics for de Pury sale are mediations on healing
Lana Trzebinski on creating her ‘Fractal Series’ of ceramic art in her Nairobi studio, for a selling exhibition with de Pury
By Mazzi Odu Published
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Miami Art Week 2023: the must-sees
Miami Art Week 2023 is underway. Let us guide you through the maze of must-sees, at Art Basel Miami Beach and beyond
By Maria Sobrino Published
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Jesse Darling wins the Turner Prize 2023
Tinie Tempah announced Jesse Darling as the Turner Prize 2023 winner
By Hannah Silver Published
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Malorie Blackman is celebrated with British Library exhibition
‘Malorie Blackman: The Power of Stories’ at the British Library shines a light on her journey as an author, while touching on social issues represented in her novels
By Tianna Williams Published
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Paulina Olowska brings Slavic folklore and androgynous nymphs to London
Paulina Olowska explores magical mysticism in ‘Squelchy Garden Mules and Mamunas’ at London’s Pace Gallery
By Hannah Silver Published
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Helen Johnson explores bodily distortion and ablution at Pilar Corrias
Helen Johnson’s ‘Opening’, at Pilar Corrias in London, unites psychological motives and physicality
By Emily Steer Published
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Step into Andrew Cranston’s magical take on mundanity at The Hepworth Wakefield
As ‘Andrew Cranston: What made you stop here?’ opens at The Hepworth Wakefield, the artist tells us about seeing the extraordinary in the everyday
By Hannah Silver Published
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Lawrence Lek’s depressed self-driving cars offer a glimpse of an AI future in Berlin
Lawrence Lek’s installation ‘NOX’, created with LAS Art Foundation, takes over Berlin’s abandoned Kranzler Eck shopping centre
By Emily Steer Published
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Carlijn Jacobs and Sabine Marcelis create a surreal fantasy at Foam, Amsterdam
Photographer Carlijn Jacobs has united with Sabine Marcelis on the design of her first solo exhibition, at Foam, Amsterdam
By Hannah Silver Published
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Olafur Eliasson inaugurates Azabudai Hills Gallery in Tokyo
Olafur Eliasson marks launch of Azabudai Hills Gallery, in Tokyo’s major new district, with a show of elemental strength
By Danielle Demetriou Published
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Tia-Thuy Nguyen encases Chateau La Coste oak tree in tonne of stainless steel strips
Tia-Thuy Nguyen’s ‘Flower of Life’ lives in the grounds of sculpture park and organic winery Château La Coste in France
By Harriet Quick Published
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Wallpaper* gift guide: shop arts & culture editor Hannah Silver’s picks
Our arts & culture editor’s gift guide puts a Sarah Lucas T-shirt, a Keith Haring radio and artful washing-up gloves in the frame
By Hannah Silver Published
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Tradition meets fantasy in Sin Wai Kin’s subversion of storytelling
Sin Wai Kin’s ‘Portraits’, at London’s Soft Opening gallery, reconsiders historical narratives
By Hannah Silver Published
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Triennale Milano exhibition spotlights contemporary Italian art
The latest Triennale Milano exhibition, ‘Italian Painting Today’, is a showcase of artworks from the last three years
By Tianna Williams Published
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Cui Jie revisits past utopian architectures in her retro-futuristic cityscapes
Cui Jie responds to the ‘Cosmos Cinema’ theme of the Shanghai Biennale 2023
By Finn Blythe Published