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2017Poster Turandot
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2008Thomas Keene in Othello 1884 Poster
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2024Yung-teater poster 20
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2016Laughing Gas (poster)
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2025A poster for Newmann the Great, the great American hypnotist and mind-reader
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2011Girls Making Gun Sounds
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2020Designer Tuan Quoc Pham embraces slowness and reflection in his process
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2020“I don’t want to do anything about dying anymore”: Marina Abramović on why she’s had enough of death
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2013Music Video: Have a dance with a nun in Devendra Banhart's new video
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2014A man cavorting around the British countryside in a watermelon costume
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2013Set Design: We present the fun-filled set design of power-duo Isabel&Helen
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2015A fierce portrait of the battles, snaps and outrageous outfits of voguing culture from Ewen Spencer
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2013Music Video: A simple, seductive one-shot dance routine from Blood Orange
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2010Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
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2010Aleksandra Mir: The How Not to Cook Book
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2016A sleepover with a bunch of strangers, thanks to Max Richter's eight-hour Sleep opus
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2010Michael Landy's Art Bin
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2020Meet the Squishies: Daisy Collingridge’s collection of wonderfully grim flesh suits
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2014Music Video: A haunting Cass McCombs video featuring the late Karen Black
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2016Photographer Jane Hilton captures the legends of burlesque
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2026Google Sheets as performance art: Liang-Jung Chen on painstakingly documenting the UK citizenship process
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2012Our new Here profile focusses on stunning Australian body architect Lucy McRae
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2013Introducing...Luc Fuller. Mustard? Check. Smoke machine? Check
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2021“I’m always on the verge of creating something”: Lakin Ogunbanwo on his vibrant and prop-heavy photography
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2025Hurdy Gurdy poster
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2020“Everything’s an experiment, everything’s a prototype”: How AATB created a practice for non-industrial robots
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2024Live, Laugh, Love, Revenge: Why Harriet Richardson swapped a career in graphic design for performance art
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2013An aeroplane safety video created by Tom Sachs you will actually watch this time
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2013People impersonating animals makes for one of our favourite music videos EVER
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2015The Joy Of Naivety: We rifle through Why Not Associates bizarre collection of found slides
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2013Music Video: Bravo Canada! Phoenix's Trying to be Cool is another smash
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2013Jeremy Deller's British Pavilion in Venice challenges and provokes our self-image
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2012Es Devlin
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2016Blast Theory: art that mixes 90s clubbing culture with "escaping the boredom" of being you
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2013Music Video: William Williamson and Keaton Henson together again at last
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2014Mike Perry sweeps into town with two nude shows!
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2013Now THAT'S a teaser! Pharrell, Daft Punk and Nile Rodgers perform Get Lucky
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2013Opinion: Is Marina Abramović in danger of being seen as a sell-out?
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2019Richard Wade photographs the parallels between professional wrestling and American politics
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2007Josephine Baker 4
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2015Stunning photographs from inside Punchdrunk's The Drowned Man
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2020Simone Steenberg explores female energy, beauty and power through her subject, her grandma Eva
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2017Babes in Arms poster 2
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2016Yolanda Domínguez gets us all up and striking a pose at Here 2016
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2012Burlesque on Carmen (poster)
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2025Deepak Panglia on capturing FKA Twigs’ “dreamlike intimacy” on-stage
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2016The six and eight-year-old Evans sisters star in Tom Johnson and Charlotte James’ latest collaboration
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2012Just a minute! Erwin Wurm's One Minute Sculptures on show in Liverpool
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2017Choreographer and director Holly Blakey on making work for everyone
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2015Set Pieces: We speak to the designers turning catwalk shows into pure spectacle
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2015Annie Collinge dresses up New York strangers like old dolls
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2007Miranda July
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2015M.I.A and Gener8ion's new vid features 36,000 Chinese fighting school kids
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2024Mam Sham’s dinners serve up comedy with a side of creative packaging
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2022Intimacy, interaction and human connection: the art of conversations with Miranda July
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2017Breast cancer warrior, sex educator and performer: an extract from Riposte’s interview with Ericka Hart
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2012Cool young creatives come together to perform for Protein's Olympic-themed show
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2015Sarah Boris’ three-act theatre of design lays bare her process
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2013Film: Jason Schwartzman teaches us How to Sneeze at Parties
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2019Mistroom’s book designs are multi-sensory gems that incorporate elements of performance
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2016From derelict squats and left-of-centre live art to branded “experiences”: has immersive theatre sold out?
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2010Chris Burden
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2018Performance art's "master" Tehching Hsieh on the importance of isolation
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2025The art of ‘wasting time’: Inside the book that documents Tehching Hsieh’s year spent in a cage
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2013Music Video: Emily Kai Bock delivers this epic music video for Arcade Fire
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2011Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Antony Gormley: Sutra
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2019Anti-Gone is a mixed reality performance set in a post-climate change world
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2013Here 2013: Set designer Es Devlin talks Kanye West and the Olympics
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2018Travis Alabanza’s radical performance practice is disrupting politeness and gratitude
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2020Maria Babikova documents the drag scene of Novosibirsk, exploring fear and joy in Russia
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2012New film captures the enduring excellence of Marina Abramović
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2009Robert Wilson
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2012Tom Sachs – Space Program: Mars is an exciting extraterrestrial exploration
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2019New film by David Ryle and Gem Fletcher reveals the poetry of playing with fire
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2011Santiago Sierra: No, Global Tour
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2024Yung-teater poster 10
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2015Daily dancer Adam Carpenter shakes it all over for new music video
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2015Jesse Kanda brings a new, terrifying dimension to synchronised dancing
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2018Nico Krijno's new work steps into energetic and chaotic set design
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2019Manchester International Festival 2019 is a fusion of performance, visual art and technology
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2017“Dance exists when we run out of things to say”: choreographer Holly Blakey on her life and practice
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2013Film: Jin Angdoo makes a song and dance about inanimate objects
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2018Designer Avi Ben Shoshan’s ceramic utensils transform eating into a performance
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2012The Weekender – crash test dummies, otters and Vladimir Putin – a play
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2025SuprOrdinary explores the creative potential of… hair?
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2011Michael Sailstorfer
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2026T11 — Awwwards SOTD
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2022Doubling for Romeo (1921, poster 1)
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2016Photographer Theo Acworth channels Yves Klein and Fluxus as he falls off his bike
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2013A John Baldessari film narrated by Tom Waits created by Supermarché? Yes please
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2018Aleia Murawski and Sam Copeland create miniature worlds where snails are the actors
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2008Improv Everywhere
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2015Dougal Wilson’s Morris Dancing-heavy first music video in six years
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2010David Byrne
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2018Poster 'The Lions - Nouveau Cirque' by PAL - Médiathèque de Chaumont
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2026Poster - Applause (1929) 02
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2012Cai Guo-Qiang paints with pyrotechnics that explode out of the MOCA
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2013Rejoice! Garth Jennings is back with some smart choreography for Atoms for Peace
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2013Poster - Naughty Marietta 13
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2013Music Video: Punch yourself to stay awake in this strange game from Rajeev Basu
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2012Scott King's new solo show picks up familiar themes of cultural estrangement
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2013Film: Bompas & Parr, some exploding jelly and classical music? Sure thing
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2014Burlesque on Carmen poster
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2022Poster for Burnand and Sullivan's Cox and Box - Royal Gallery of Illustration
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2012Ann Hamilton encourages swinging in New York, with spectacular results
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2018"Disquieting and disarming": artist Eddie Peake on his latest show at White Cube
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2015Is it art? Is it performance? Or is it just PJ Harvey being ace, in a box?
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2018Catherine Hyland tells the unlikely story of Mongolian sumo wrestlers in her latest project
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2011The Burning House
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2014Exhibition: Farts, cacti, sellotape and 7000 white balloons feature in the Martin Creed's What's the Point of It?
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2018Col. J.A. Patee's Old Soldier Fiddler's in an old time fiddling and song review, the only original act of its kind Assisted by J.A. Pattee, Jr. as Uncle Sam - - Apeda, N.Y. LCCN2017658732
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2012Clock Opera: Once and For All
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2014Music Video: Grimacing guitar geeks rock out in Eugene McGuinness's fantastic new video
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2011Mark Leckey: BigBoxStatueAction
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2020Designer Aurane Loury breaks down “frontiers between different creative mediums”
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2012Erwin Wurm creates giant surrealist sculpture for New York hotel
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2014Music Video: Mimi Cave dismembers bodies with charm for Magic Man
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2012Marina Abramović and Willem Dafoe in Antony and the Johnson's gruesome new video
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2010Charles Frohman presents Phroso, performance poster, 1898
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2013Poster - Little Old New York 03
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2013PP D131 poster by ibels for irene henry performances at the l'horloge
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2025CH-NB Poster Collection SNL TOUR 224
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2013Brass bands, ballet and a nude horn section from Supermafia VJ's new video
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2011Stand Up Comedy
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2017Creatives' favourite music videos: Metronomy on Weezer and Hollie Fernando on Radiohead
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2013Man makes music with leaves and blows us all away
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2009Miltos Manetas
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2020Elsa and Johanna: the duo who immerse themselves into cinematic self-portraiture
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2011Improv Everywhere: Say Something Nice
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2014Music Video: Mayer Hawthorne's analogue police chase video with a lyrical bonus
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2015Watch a pregnant FKA twigs spawn a voguing extravaganza!
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2016Casper Balslev shows ballerinas wielding AK-47s in his ad for the Royal Danish Theatre
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2020Albert Pierre-René Maignan - Jules Massenet - Ariane
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2010Lewis Morrison as "Mephistopheles" in Faust!, performance poster, 1887
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2026No, No, Nanette poster type B
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2013Poster - Little Nellie Kelly 05
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2009Kenka Oshidori poster 2
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2024Yung-teater poster 12
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2019Dr Hunter Papers - Circus Poster (44776571342)
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20201907 poster by Gustav Jahn - Ragusa
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2024Poster Cabaret des Quat'z'Arts by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1894-1895
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2024Yung-teater poster 08
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2021Poster - Little Foxes, The 02 (cropped)
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2022Poster Theatre Italien Cenerentola 1849
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2020Alice Neilsen's production of Victor Herbert's The Fortune Teller
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2013A dance-off with a difference as puppets take on Pantsula troupe in new Diesel+Edun film
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2014Miscellaneous: Bompas and Parr take photos INSIDE the stomach of celebrity chef, Gizzi Erskine
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2015Jack White gives you three awesome music videos for the price of one
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2023Piss of Mind
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2021Designing a restaurant experience which makes you feel like you’re sitting in a story
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1954Gutai Art Association
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2012Words as Performance: A talk by Tim Clare at Selfridges, February 2012
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2018Woman Srsly: a new community platform to celebrate dance and performance
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2011Ragnar Kjartansson
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2012Other Spaces: Jo Longhurst's stunning shots of gymnasts are a joy to behold
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2017Wayne McGregor and Random International ask: what does it mean to be human?
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2014Art: Taylor Holland makes a mockery of the well-defined markings of sports fields
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2015Bizarre telenovelas and garish installations from Alex Da Corte
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2020Friday Likes 325
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Fluxus
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2010Catherine Maloney: Teleplay Part I
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2013Rick Guest captures Royal Ballet dancers in all their strange glory
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2014James Franco systematically destroys Daniel Arsham’s work in this arty short
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2026Annie Atkins, Liang-Jung Chen and Derek Ridgers: Tickets now available for February’s Nicer Tuesdays!
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2013Magnificent meaty artworks form Brion Nuda Rosch on show in New York
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2014New Logo for Minnesota Lottery by Olson
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2019Can graphic design translate to performance? LCC's grad show identity shows us it can
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2024New logo and identity for PAC NYC by PORTO ROCHA
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2012Helena Bonham Carter stars in newly-released video for Rufus Wainwright
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2015The Man Who Tore The Tate In Two: Stuart Smith on making Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth a reality
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2015One Direction's latest tour art directed by Studio Moross, and it looks FANTASTIC
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1959Happening
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2012Jack Howard: In Pursuit of Coriolanus
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2016Theatrical sets that splice the modern with the postmodern, challenging perspective, history and taste
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2011Myrrh: Way Body Moves
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2013Music Video: Woah! Pharrell's made a 24 hour music video
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2012A silly take on the lip-synch music video from Sam Bailey and Amer Chada-Patel
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2022New Logo and Identity for Kimmel Cultural Campus by J2
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2017“It’s a psychological overload”: Weirdcore on creating Aphex Twin’s live visuals
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2014Giant swords, mimes and an epic journey in the desert. Grimes is back!
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2014Lynnie Zulu's new solo show colourfully explores the female form
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2013Photography: Eleanor Hardwick captures the circus for Rookie Magazine
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2009Momix
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2015I did an "insanity workout" led by a Turner Prize nominated artist and good god, I loved it
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2013Set Design: Miguel Bento's fun new set design for oki-ni
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2009Madonna Vs Courtney Love @ 1995 VMAs
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2016A repetitive day in the life of one of Ragnar Kjartansson’s troubadours
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2019A glimpse inside FKA twigs’ year-long pole-performance training schedule
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2014Beautiful time-lapse of a giant collaborative drawing from Aleksandra Mir's solo show
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2017A closer look at the work of “performer and plastic artist” Caroline Denervaud
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2009Miltos Manetas
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2019Watch Stephen Isaac-Wilson’s filmic celebration of the Black Pervert's Network (NSFW)
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2015"Graphic design’s like acting” and other things we learned at Here London
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2009Fabricated Corpse Rental
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2014My Favourite Music Video: Camilla Mantovani on Radiohead's epic Street Spirit
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