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Figgy Guyver

Figgy Guyver is editorial assistant of frieze, based in London, UK. She is co-founder and editor of CUMULUS journal. Follow her on Twitter: @FiggyGuyver.

Culture Digest
In Pictures: The Defiant Art of the Protest Poster

A new book by Amnesty International documents how protest posters have changed throughout history

BY Figgy Guyver |
Culture Digest
In Pictures: Hannah Ryggen’s Defiantly Anti-Fascist Tapestries

An exhibition at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt displays 25 of the Scandinavian artist’s monumental woven artworks

BY Figgy Guyver |
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In Pictures: When Surrealism Met Functional Design

An exhibition at Vitra Design Museum documents the movement’s influence on commercial products

BY Figgy Guyver |
Reviews
William Blake’s Baffling, Tempestuous Visions at London’s Tate Britain

A new retrospective shows a different side to the cosmic dreamer

BY Figgy Guyver |
Culture Digest
An Occult Art History of the American West

A new book charts Theosophy’s influence on Western modernism

BY Figgy Guyver |
Culture Digest
The Five Trailblazing Galleries that Only Show Women Artists

In 2018, just one third of global exhibitions were by women artists. These galleries defy the trend

BY Figgy Guyver |
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In Pictures: The Maximalist Revolt Against Minimalism

A show at ICA, Boston, celebrates clashing patterns and exuberant design

BY Figgy Guyver |
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Ever Wanted to Swim in an Artwork? Take a Dip at Jupiter Artland

Artist Joana Vasconcelos has designed a vibrant swimming pool with mystical significance

BY Figgy Guyver |
Critic's Guides
Seven Highlights from the Edinburgh Art Festival

Your guide to shows to see around Scotland’s capital

BY Figgy Guyver |
Culture Digest
In Pictures: Tadao Ando’s Minimalist Museums for a Remote Japanese Island

Five Naoshima museums to visit during the Setouchi Triennale

BY Figgy Guyver |
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The Mystical Symbolism of Ithell Colquhoun’s Tarot Deck

Tate has acquired 5,000 works by the late surrealist artist and writer

BY Figgy Guyver |
Reviews
Olafur Eliasson at Tate Modern Review: Spectacle in an Age of Climate Crisis

Amid a carnival atmosphere, Eliasson elicits an emotional reaction to the urgent issues of the day

BY Figgy Guyver |
Culture Digest
What’s the Ecological Cost of Olafur Eliasson’s Lunch?

The Danish-Icelandic artist has created an environmentally-conscious menu for Tate Modern’s Terrace Bar

BY Figgy Guyver |
Culture Digest
Can Michael Rakowitz’s 100 Recipes Revive Iraq’s Date Economy?

The artist behind London’s current fourth plinth sculpture has published a cookbook for date syrup

BY Figgy Guyver |
Culture Digest
In Pictures: What’s in Cindy Sherman’s Studio?

A new book published to coincide with her retrospective at London’s National Portrait Gallery includes a rare glimpse of the artist’s workspace

BY Figgy Guyver |
Culture Digest
In Pictures: Maurice Sendak’s Wild, Whimsical Opera Designs

The Morgan Library presents 150 designs for ballet and opera by the author of Where the Wild Things Are

BY Figgy Guyver |
Opinion
The Radical History of Sesame Street

50 years after it first aired, remembering the television show’s progressive foundational values

BY Figgy Guyver |
One Takes
The Battle-Weary Magic of the Long-Lost Lewis Chessman

How the medieval chess piece reminds us of a time before modern maps

BY Figgy Guyver |
News
Two Transgender Activists to Be Honoured with Statues in New York

50 years on from Stonewall, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera will be memorialized in Greenwich Village

BY Figgy Guyver |
One Takes
How Photographers Have Captured the Dissonant Spirit of the British Seaside

In pictures: contrasting visions of one of the most clichéd symbols of the nation

BY Figgy Guyver |