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Each week I speak to a Norwich local making an impact on the visual arts. This week, artist and academic Carl Rowe.

Berlin-based dancer and choreographer Shade Théret returns to the Odyssey Theatre's Dance at the Odyssey series for a single performance of her newest work, Throwaway Line.

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After a Year of Online Programming, What Worked? Frieze editors discuss the different trends in digital exhibition-making, from end-of-world scenarios to community-based initiatives Terence Trouillot In February, an exhibition titled ‘Goodbye, World’, curated by Andreas Templin and Raimar Stange, was installed on an ice floe near the Arctic Circle in Swedish Lapland. Centred on environmental disaster, the show – featuring works by Jonathan Monk, Olaf Nicolai and Martha ...

ArtReview Gelare Khoshgozaran ‘Medina Wasl: Connecting Town’ (still), 2018, 16mm film transferred to video, sound, colour, 31 min The Los Angeles-based Iranian filmmaker opens up a brave new world of contemporary storytelling In late October last year, a neon-yellow envelope came through my letterbox. Inside was a thick black card embossed with the sentence, ‘The gradients of fascism are diverse in their predictable dullness’. On the other side was a business-card-size USB drive, printe...

The Art of Queer Support in 2020 This year has shown many of us the importance of community-building, but for queer artists it isn’t just about mirroring an existing public sphere In June 2020, London’s Cell Project Space posted hundreds of fluorescent-yellow envelopes to addresses in the UK and abroad. Each contained a photocopy of a handwritten letter that described the feeling of being drenched by ‘the waterfall of the world’, plus a vial housing a scent recalling ...

Olu Ogunnaike’s Radical Revival of London Plane Trees A new commission at Cell Project Space confronts questions about our complicity in the gentrification of our cities  For London Plain (all works 2020) – a site-specific installation that reclaims Cell Project Space from its temporary, pandemic-induced programming hiatus – Olu Ogunnaike has covered the gallery’s original floor with a herringbone parquet. The artist sourced the lumber from London plane trees, which,...