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The Body in Women's Art Now - ReCreation

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

[Rollo Contemporary Art, London 20 January - 2 March 2012]
All-women festivals and retrospectives have flourished in the last decade, from the more alternative corners of culture (Her Noise at South London Gallery, Cinenova’s Bodies Assembling, the current Labour : Female Irish...

South London Black Music Archive

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

[Peckham Space, London 17 January - 24 February 2012]
In his seminal work The Gift, Marcel Mauss argues that gifts are never free. With every gifted object, a transaction is born where the giver does not merely give an object but also a part of him. Giving and receiving create a reciprocal exchange...

David Hockney A Bigger Picture

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

[Royal Academy, London 21 January - 9 April 2012]
David Hockney's A BIGGER PICTURE "One in the back of the net for Yorkshire!" Having seen a taster on TV, listened to an interview on the radio and read the newspapers I had an idea of what I was going to see as I entered the Royal...