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Faith Ringgold: Tales from a Patchwork Life

The veteran US artist’s quilts and painting tell stories from a career spent fighting for equality

Image Of The Day

Erwin Wurm, Fat House, 2003

Photography

The Photographers Developing a Fresh Relationship with the American South

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Deer Diary… Buy Molly Fairhurst’s Poster and Bring Your Wall to Life

5 Minutes With

Sara Yukiko Mon: “Every Outing Becomes a Scavenger Hunt…”

Sunday Read

Punk? Feminist? Surrealist? This 50-Year-Old Book Still Refuses to Be Labelled

Art

#Splashtag: Why Are Painters So Obsessed with Swimming Pools?

Stripping Off: Exposing Britain’s Nudist History

“Nudism arrived in Britain after the First World War. Going nude socially in groups was an elite, rather intellectual practice”

The Comfort of Strangers: The Intimacy of Liz Johnson Artur’s Anonymous Images

“She holds on to these fleeting conversations like the imprint of a shadow that otherwise would have passed by”

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Buy This Isobel Platt Print and the Eyes Really Will Follow You Around the Room

Under the Influence

Jesse Mockrin: How Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene Has Fuelled My Latest Works

This Artwork Changed My Life

I Found a Lost Connection to My Father in Joseph Cornell’s Boxes

5 Minutes With

Yto Barrada: “I Hate the Large Photographs of Artists in the Entrance of Exhibitions”

Sunday Read

If All The World’s a Stage, Then Ryu Ika Is Determined to Capture Every Act

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Let These Prints Take You Into the Multicoloured Mind of Inji Seo

This Artwork Changed My Life

I Found a Lost Connection to My Father in Joseph Cornell’s Boxes

This Artwork Changed My Life: 10 of the Best from 2021

A Manifesto for Maintenance Art Taught Me the True Value of Hard Essential Work

How Francesca Woodman Helped Put Me Back in the Picture

Life

Rhed in the Face: Is the Rise of Madonna’s Son an Art World Embarrassment?

Under the Influence

Cynthia Daignault: I Learned from Felix Gonzalez-Torres That Less Can Be More

Advice Column

Should I Take an Unpaid Internship at a Gallery?

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Waste Not Want Not: Custom Build Your Own Sustainably Packaged Paint Set

Photography

Hidden Depths: Catching the Togetherness in a Portuguese Fishing Community

Art

The Artists To Watch in 2022: Part 2

The Artists To Watch in 2022: Part 1

“From paintings to performance, from the virtual to the very real, this is Elephant’s pick of the artists heading for great things in the next 12 months”

The Artists To Watch in 2022: Part 2

“From paintings to performance, from the virtual to the very real, this is Elephant’s pick of the artists heading for great things in the next 12 months”