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In her column, Skye Sherwin singles out artistic works, museum artefacts and curiosities from around the world for closer inspection

Endless Floor Show, 1965, Yayoi Kusama

Exhibit A | Yayoi Kusama in Another Art Book

Yayoi Kusuma’s collages for AnOther Magazine are a like a scrapbook of her greatest hits. Here she is in the early 1960s, when she was first making a name for herself in New York, nude and painted with polka-dots, looking coyly at the camera from within one of her Accumulations – penile protrusions made from hand-stitched...

Exhibit A | Ernesto Caivano in Another Art Book

Ernesto Caivano’s drawing series After The Woods is an epic work of mystery and romance. It has been compared to everything from Genesis to Spencer’s Faerie...
Exhibit A | Yang Fudong’s Flutter, Flutter… Jasmine, Jasmine

Yang Fudong’s vision of young love in early 21st century Shanghai, the three-channel video installation Flutter, Flutter… Jasmine, Jasmine, pairs the...
Exhibit A | Untitled (View of the Port at Onomatopoeia) 2009 -2010, Charles Avery

Back in 2004, the Scottish artist Charles Avery discovered an imaginary realm, called The Island. He’s been making expeditions there ever since, bringing back...
Exhibit A | Figure Study II (1945/46) by Francis Bacon

The screaming mouth and eyeless face of the sub-human creature in this painting make it unmistakably by Francis Bacon. It’s an early work from 1946 – Figure...

Exhibit A | Miroslav Tichy's Photographs

The clean gallery walls and sharp-edged picture frames with their crisp, white mounts could hardly be more at odds with the photographs they house.
Exhibit A | Adam Dant’s Catherine Imperatrista

The royals are perfect fodder for Adam Dant, an artist frequently compared to great British satirists like Swift or Hogarth. His Catherine Imperatrista, turns...
Exhibit A | Supplement by Nicolas Deshayes

Food photography is a deceptive business. To create the gelatinous, juicy-looking glazes and succulent hues necessary to truly whet a reader’s appetite, the...
Exhibit A | Frontispiece to Chopin’s Third Ballade by Aubrey Beardsley

This Frontispiece to Chopin’s Third Ballade might seem a rather restrained work for Aubrey Beardsley, the naughty young dandy who scandalised and titillated...
Exhibit A | Peter Coffin’s Untitled (Lines), 2011

Peter Coffin’s latest installation is a dazzling, walk-in rainbow. Suspended between floor and ceiling, seven glowing neon lines span the colour spectrum: red...
Exhibit A | Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell’s library books

It’s not known what Islington’s Essex Road Library subscribers made of the guerrilla art that started popping up on hundreds of book covers in the early 1960s....
Exhibit A | Gustave Doré

Here is a scene of gibbering shadows and sinister smiles. In Gustave Doré’s depiction of an East London opium den from 1872, we witness drug-induced oblivion...
Exhibit A | Salla Tykkä, Airs Above the Ground

A classic pin-up delivers a breath-taking performance in Finnish artist Salla Tykkä’s latest film, Airs Above the Ground. The first sound you notice is the...

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