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July 2021
Run from the flaming van of the apocalypse! Folkestone Triennial review
With its line-dancers, good behaviour zones and abstract skatepark, the Kent extravaganza is big on fun. So thank goodness for the incendiary installations hammering us with home truths
September 2019
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Bathers, Bauhaus and a bounding bunny – the week in art
Hares rise in the Midlands, laughing gas intoxicates London and Matisse’s graphics flood Bath
November 2015
Seven ages of an artist
Richard Deacon, 66: ‘I wouldn’t like to feel it’d be a failure to stop’
The master of abstract sculpture has learned to ride the ups and downs of his own career – but reserves the right to retire
May 2014
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Ai Weiwei, paint ejaculations and prehistoric farts – the week in art
The Chinese artist installs a show in Yorkshire via email because his passport has been confiscated. Plus Richard Jackson's paint-splatter machines, Kenneth Clark, and the boy that pees LEDs
February 2014
Adrian Searle encounters
Drawing outside the lines: Richard Deacon traces 100 years of abstraction
Richard Deacon – review
Richard Deacon, fabricator and Turner prize winner, gets Tate retrospective
Richard Deacon at Tate Britain: roll up for the magical metal mystery tour
January 2014
Sculptor Richard Deacon: why one pair of hands is never enough
Ahead of his retrospective at Tate Britain, the renowned sculptor tells Nicholas Wroe how he has realised that it doesn't matter 'who actually puts the screw in'
May 2010
Exhibitions picks of the week
Richard Deacon | Miguel Palma | Maria Nepomuceno | Attitude | Shahin Afrassiabi | Lanwei/Decaying End | Aaron Williamson | Extraordinary Measures
September 2009
Guide to drawing
Richard Deacon on how he draws
Richard Deacon has been making a lot of line drawings, focusing on the vocabulary of mark-making
February 2009
Wallinger's horse chosen to be Ebbsfleet's 'Angel of the South'
The Turner prize-winner's horse set to dominate the Kent landscape as it beats Richard Deacon and Daniel Buren to the commission for the Ebbsfleet Landmark
May 2008
The Ebbsfleet Landmark shortlist
Today the five shortlisted artists reveal their designs for the Ebbsfleet site. Each structure must be roughly 50 metres in height, dwarfing the Angel of the North
September 2007
Richard Deacon
Who's shocking now?
January 2006
Culture Vulture
What was that all about?
Range B by Richard Deacon. Photograph: Dave Morgan/Lisson Gallery There weren't many visitors to Richard Deacon's exhibition, Range, at the Lisson Gallery on a dreary Monday, and I spent a lot of time - probably too much time - there alone, writes Maxie Szalwinska.
What was that all about?
Richard Deacon
Richard Deacon, at the Lisson Gallery
What's red, white and wet all over?
In fact, those drips are a glaze. But that doesn't make Richard Deacon's new ceramic sculptures any less clammy, sweaty and disturbing, says Adrian Searle.
November 1989
Deacon returns to his roots
Richard Deacon won the Turner prize in 1987 since when he has become one of the most respected of the new wave of British sculptors of the 80s.
