The Star's critics ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARTIN HALL, MICHAL BONCZA, ANGUS REID reviews Holy Cow, One to One: John and Yoko, King of Kings, Panda Bear in Africa
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A ‘revelation through concealment’
MIK SABIERS enjoys a book that documents the last project of two artists who mesmerised the public on a grand scale but never succumbed to commercialisation
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PATRICK JONES recommends a vital anthology from Afghan and Iranian poets where the political and personal fuse into witness-bearing and manifesto-making
WILL STONE is impressed by Hania Rani who is already making a name for herself in the male-dominated world of modern classical music
MIK SABIERS enjoys the theatrical feminist six piece who have a lot of fun that the audience feeds off as the set rolls on
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by characters so un-nuanced as to be unreal, a stereotypical plot and a conceptual vampire
WILL STONE appreciates an artist who can swerve from industrial noise to clubby trance pop without missing a step
L’Arc de Triomphe, WRAPPED
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Taschen, £20
JUST 16 days in situ, but 60 years in the making, this book charts the creation and construction of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s L’Arc de Triomphe, WRAPPED, although it doesn’t actually feature the final exhibit in all its glory.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude were known for wrapping, enveloping and engaging with open spaces, large installations and oil barrels (London Serpentine i 2018), but primarily their art was about fabric, textiles and temporary materials interacting with the environment.
Born on the same day in 1935, the pair met and married in Paris in the late 1950s and embarked on a career symbolised by art crossed with large scale landmarks and landscapes.
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