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Sophie Calle

October 2018

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    Why are Bono, Pharrell and Michael Stipe paying tribute to this woman's dead cat?

    An all-star memorial album for Souris the cat is the latest project from French artist Sophie Calle

July 2017

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    Sophie Calle: ‘What attracts me is absence, missing, death…’

    She makes art that is intimate, romantic, funny, dramatic and confessional… And yet after four decades there are still new truths about Sophie Calle’s past to be revealed. Eva Wiseman visits her at her home in Paris and hears an astonishing revelation

March 2017

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    Strangers, secrets and desire: the surreal world of Sophie Calle

  • Sophie Calle’s late cat Souris.

    'The cat in the coffin almost steals the show' … the Deutsche Börse photography prize

May 2015

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    Venice Biennale begins with a bang – the week in art

    Sarah Lucas’s smoking vaginas descend on Venice, as Peter Kennard’s subversive pacifist art takes over the Imperial War Museum and Frida Kahlo’s lost wardrobe gets opened up. Plus Grayson Perry’s Taj Mahal in Essex and Cornelia Parker remakes the Magna Carta

July 2012

  • Lucas Foglia Andrew and Taurin Drinking Raw Goat's Milk, Tennessee, 2009

    Les Rencontres d'Arles 2012 – review

    Josef Koudelka, Sophie Calle and a utopian return to nature captivate in an unfocused year for the French festival, writes Sean O'Hagan

April 2012

  • Sophie Calle's best shot - an Turkish man seeing the sea for the first time

    My best shot
    Photographer Sophie Calle's best shot

    'He was from Istanbul but had never seen the sea. I made him cover his eyes until he got to this spot'

January 2011

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    Sophie Calle: 'I asked for the moon and I got it'

    When Sophie Calle first tried photography, she was told to pick another career. The great French conceptual artist reveals how she persevered – and finally got her revenge

October 2009

  • Sophie Calle at the Whitechapel Gallery, London

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    Whitechapel Art Gallery, London: The French artist's dissection of a lover's Dear John email is a fascinating window into a mysterious psyche, writes Jonathan Jones

September 2009

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    Sophie Calle: stalker, stripper, sleeper, spy

    From following a stranger to Venice to burying her mother's jewellery at the north pole, Sophie Calle is France's foremost artist of the unexpected. Stuart Jeffries meets her

September 2008

  • A melting iceberg

    Artists and musicians on board for Arctic project

    Artist Sophie Calle will join voyagers on a trip to the Arctic as part of this year's Cape Farewell, a programme bringing artists and scientists together to raise awareness of climate change

June 2007

  • He loves me not

    When a boyfriend dumped her by email, French artist Sophie Calle asked 100 women to read it - and became the star of the Venice Biennale, reports Angelique Chrisafis.

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    Podcast: an interview with Sophie Calle

    When artist Sophie Calle was dumped by email, she made it the subject of an eyebrow-raising, confessional new show. I spoke to her at the Venice Biennale.

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    Venice Biennale: Interview with Sophie Calle

    The Guardian's Adrian Searle talks to artist Sophie Calle about her installation, Take Care of Yourself, on display at the Venice Biennale 2007.

May 2007

  • Calle and Gehry's art of parting

    Artist Sophie Calle and architect Frank Gehry are to collaborate on a project called Exquisite Pain, to be shown in Luxembourg in June.

December 2004

  • 'The worse the break-up, the better the art'

    Amelia Gentleman talks to Sophie Calle, France's most famous conceptual artist, about the upsides of misery, the pull of the bizarre and the joy of being in a Paul Auster novel.

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