Latest articles by Nick Compton
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Modern music: London’s Barbican sways to the tune of mountains and waves
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Screen time: digital displays bring art to your home at the touch of a button
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The V&A celebrates the 200th birthday of pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron
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Mana Contemporary at Art Basel Miami 2015
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Our roundup of Art Basel Miami's finest galleries of December 2015
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Conrad Shawcross: exploring the work of British art’s brightest star
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Imitation of art?: Elmgreen & Dragset at Victoria Miro
The artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset are best known for grand-scale immersive installations tackling big issues. In End Station they built a fake New York subway station, an entire social housing block for Celebrity – The One and Many, the homes of an art collector and an architect in serious decline, and perhaps most famously, a fake Prada store in the Texas desert. The sublime is not their concern. Neither, on the whole, do they do minimal or personal. ‘Self-Portraits’, the duo’s new show at Victoria Miro’s Mayfair branch, is both. And it’s ever so simple.
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’Go to Hell or Atlanta, Whichever Comes First’: Kara Walker’s debut London show
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Gautier Deblonde captures artists’ inner sanctums in new book ’Atelier’
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South African Architects Directory
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Quadror by Studio Dror
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Bally's New Bond Street flagship by David Chipperfield is a study in Swiss modernism
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Greenland's Qaammat Pavilion for Unesco celebrates land and people
Architect Konstantin Ikonomidis designs Qaammat, a pavilion just above the Arctic Circle in Greenland, that celebrates the local landscape and the Inuit community
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Smooth operator: the modern dandy needs to be suave to a T
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New Court, Rothschild London HQ, by OMA
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Big bounce: art and sole collide in an uplifting offering from Marc Newson and Nike
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Imprimerie du Marais and Ateliers Saint-Lazare renovate French industrial classic
French architecture studio Ateliers Saint-Lazare creates a new design-led home for Paris’ printing house, Imprimerie du Marais
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Tate Britain celebrates the short but seismic age of New Brutalism
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Eye spy: Stan Douglas goes undercover at London’s Victoria Miro
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’Sculpture 4tet’? A new four-man show at Marian Goodman Gallery, London
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Sculptor Sarah Sze makes a sharp turn to glass at Berengo Studio in Murano
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Sculptor Lynn Chadwick’s angular metal figures star in a series of international shows, starting in London
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Second Home brings SelgasCano Serpentine Pavilion to Los Angeles
Ahead of Second Home’s September opening in LA to a SelgasCano-designed building, the co-working operation brings the Madrid-based architect’s 2015 Serpentine Pavilion to the La Brea Tar Pits
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