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Cornelia Parker

February 2024

  • Cornelia Parker at the National Gallery with her favourite painting, The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck

    ‘I love the dog, the sandals, everything!’: eight artists on their favourite paintings in the National Gallery

    As the National Gallery in London turns 200, we ask celebrated artists to pick the artwork from the collection that means most to them

July 2023

  • Lucie Rie, Buttons, 1940s.

    The humble button goes from mere fastener to a place on the gallery wall

    Inspired by the work of ceramicist Lucie Rie, Ai Weiwei and other top artists are telling deeply personal stories on a tiny ‘canvas’

December 2022

  • The British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Sonia Boyce is this year's artist representing Great Britain. Venice, Italy. Photograph by David Levene 19/4/22

    Another amazing year for female artists. So why are they still stifled and impoverished?

    From the Turner shortlist to the Venice Biennale and more, 2022 was another dazzling year for women. But, away from the headlines, a cold look at the data shows equality is generations away

October 2022

  • Abigail Prudames as The Little Mermaid for Northern Ballet.

    ‘They want to dream a little longer’: the deep appeal of mermaids

    Wherever you look – in cinemas, theatres, sculpture or down at your local lido – these magical creatures are bewitching an ever growing audience

May 2022

  • Island, 2022 by Cornelia Parker at Tate Britain.

    Cornelia Parker review – the redemptive art of making something out of nothing

    The artist transforms things unnoticed, or barely there, into a poetry of objects in this superbly curated retrospective
  • Frozen chaos … Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, 1991, at Tate Britain.

    From Dover’s cliffs to degraded porn: the astonishing alchemy of Cornelia Parker – review

    This fabulous survey of her 40-year career has everything from soiled hankies to exploding sheds, as well as a vampire-like Margaret Thatcher – confirming Parker’s genius for finding poetry in the world around us
  • ‘I went to see Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy’ … Cornelia Parker at home.

    ‘I don’t want to be a little Englander’ – Cornelia Parker on BP, bombs and becoming a German

    She is a politically charged artist whose work can be literally explosive. Ahead of a huge show, Parker talks about ‘cartoon violence’, recreating a corridor in Parliament – and why she may apply for German citizenship

December 2021

  • Clockwise from top: The House of Hungarian Music, Van Gogh, Stonehenge, Objects of Desire, Carolee Schneeman

    2022 culture preview
    Van Gogh’s self-portraits and colossal venues: 2022’s best art and architecture

    It’s Happy New Ear for the impressionist, Manchester and Folkestone’s shiny new mega-venues open and Stonehenge gets the blockbuster treatment

September 2021

  • Artist Cornelia Parker in her studio north London.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Cornelia Parker’s cultural highlights

    The Turner prize shortlisted artist on funny cat videos, a giant pineapple and the song that makes her spine tingle

July 2021

  • Leonora Carrington, Self-portrait c1937–38, will feature in the Surrealism Beyond Borders exhibition at Tate Modern from February.

    From Cézanne to surrealism: Tate unveils 2022 programme

    Other exhibitions include Cornelia Parker, Walter Sickert, Barbara Hepworth and the Turner prize

October 2020

  • JMW Turner - The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Electric Turner, a giant octopus and quantum photogravure – the week in art

    Ray Harryhausen’s epic monsters, Cornelia Parker’s surreally beautiful afterimages and JMW Turner’s energy-infused observations of his contemporary life – all in your weekly dispatch

September 2020

  • Extinction Rebellion protesters use bamboo lock-ons to block the road outside the Rupert Murdoch-owned Newsprinters works in Hertfordshire on 5 September.

    Fry and Rylance defend Extinction Rebellion against UK’s ‘organised crime group’ classification

    Celebrities hit back at move to brand protesters as part of ‘organised crime group’

May 2020

  • Moon Water Cloud Gate Dance Theatre

    Lockdown culture
    This week's best culture, at home – from Korean ballet to a David Nicholls-inspired radio play

    The Observer’s critics recommend the best new arts shows to enjoy on TV, on the radio and online

November 2019

  • Artist Cornelia Parker

    Steamrollers, explosions, and 'cartoon violence': the artistic eruptions of Cornelia Parker

    The launch of her first major show in the southern hemisphere sees the UK artist trying to disrupt the cosy and suburban

April 2019

  • A Skylark sings from a post at Thurrock Nature Park

    Birdsong inspires artists, musicians and poets. The world should listen

    Letters: As we approach International Dawn Chorus Day, Alison Steadman, Grayson Perry and 76 others say nature is falling silent and the UK must take a leading role in its recovery

July 2018

  • Birdman by Marc Wallinger.

    Art Weekly newsletter
    Jeff Goldblum goes topless and Mark Wallinger goes into orbit – the week in art

    A statue of the actor appears in London, the Edinburgh art festival prepares to launch and Wallinger takes on humans in space for a new exhibition in Hastings

June 2018

  • Tony Cragg

    Cast of characters: encounters with British sculptors – in pictures

    Cornelia Parker, Elisabeth Frink, Damien Hirst and Grayson Perry are among the artists Anne-Katrin Purkiss captures in striking portraits

May 2018

  • 2018-04-06 14:12:57 WORKUM - In het Friese workum wordt de laatste hand gelegd aan de zogenaamde piemelfontein. Na de onthulling van het mobiele kunstwerk op zondag 8 april zal een aantal van de ruim 230 houten piemels fier in de lucht spuiten tijdens een tour langs verschillende Friese gemeenten. Het idee voor de fontein ontstond vorig jaar als protest tegen de organisatoren van Leeuwarden-Fryslan als Culturele Hoofdstad van 2018. ANP CATRINUS VAN DER VEEN netherlands out - belgium out

    Dutch city uses penis fountain to rebel against art project

  • A secondary school pupil in an art class

    British artists: Ebacc will damage creativity and self-expression

February 2018

  • Artist Cornelia Parker

    The balance
    Cornelia Parker: ‘When a deadline looms, you have to come up with the goods’

    The sculptor and installation artist, 61, on anxiety dreams, eating with family and being blood sugary
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