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Album of the Week: Arlo Parks – 'Ambiguous Desire'
Five years after her Mercury-winning debut, the West London poet returns with Ambiguous Desire – a record that lives in the "happysad" space between the dancefloor and the walk home.
By Craig McLean
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Album of the week: Robyn – 'Sexistential'
These nine perfectly judged tracks are Robyn having fun, cutting loose, leaning into everything she’s learned across three decades
By Craig McLean
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An immersive London exhibition summons the power and joy of Keith Haring’s subway drawings
In the early 1980s, before he was an icon, the artist graffitied New York subway stations. Now, the Moco Museum has breathed new life into the artworks
By Jordan Bassett
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Freddie Foulkes opens Shepherd's Bush art gallery
London gallerist Freddie Foulkes presents first exhibition with four new artists
By Gunseli Yalcinkaya
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Art books that explore design and impact
These new and evergreen tomes are full of inspiration
By Emily Steer
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Album of the week: Kim Gordon – 'Play Me'
The peerless Kim Gordon continues to innovate on her third solo album
By Craig McLean
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A love letter to the holiday souvenir
Souvenirs from far-flung places have a truly transportative quality, finds Delilah Khomo
By Delilah Khomo
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Album of the Week: James Blake – 'Trying Times'
After a decade in Los Angeles, the Mercury Prize winner is back in the UK – and sounding newly liberated
By Craig McLean
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6 properties giving guesthouses a good name
Guesthouses have always existed in the gap between glossy hotel and house rental. A new generation is reshaping the format, turning private homes, studios and townhouses into places where guests step briefly into someone else’s world
By Reeme Idris
