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For her first solo presentation in the UK, internationally acclaimed artist Simone Fattal (b. 1942, Syria) leads visitors on a journey of transformati

Precious Stones (1936). Courtesy of Leeds Museums and Galleries. © The estate of Eileen Agar. For years, the Tate has held a trove of artworks by 20th-century British artist Eileen Agar without even necessarily knowing it. “Interestingly, [her assemblages are] in their archive, not in their collection of artworks,” says Laura Smith, the Whitechapel Gallery curator who organized an Agar retrospective opening this May. “But she made them as artworks.” Eileen Agar wearing a “Ceremonial ...