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"When Arnie Glimcher first walked into Paul Thek's studio in 1965, he was taken aback by three meat sculptures on his work table. 'I knew they were wax but I could almost smell the meat,' the Pace Gallery founder tells Wallpaper*. Glimcher's initial olfactory response to Thek's category-defying work had eventually led to the artist's second solo exhibition in his then-burgeoning career. Six decades later, the gallery presents its second solo show dedicated to Thek, who enjoyed one of the most singular artistic journeys of the 20th century."

"For years, Yinka Ilori has been described as an artist of joy. The phrase follows him almost everywhere. It appears in reviews, interviews and introductions, attached to the vivid colours and communal spirit that have come to define his public commissions and design projects around the world. Yet standing inside 'Joy Through Resistance: He Who Laughs Last, Laughs Best', his first solo gallery exhibition in London, it becomes clear that Ilori is asking a different question altogether. Not what joy looks like but where it comes from."

"'The way I work is by preparing myself to relinquish a lot of control,' says Anne Imhof. 'The piece is often a performance, and it is in spaces where the audience can walk freely and leave or stay however they please. In taking their own angle or direction on the scene, they almost make their own edit, so there's a lot of possibilities that I think through before the piece is staged, but it's not necessarily rehearsed. But there is this magical moment in all of our minds, the moment where the audience comes in, and this transfer of energy is really palpable. I like it.' Imhof, a German visual artist based between New York and Berlin, works across an eclectic prism of mediums, from performance to sculpture, music, painting, choreography and installation."

"This week, the fascinating post-pop paintings of Andrew Heard will be exhibited in the UK for the first time in over 30 years. In the 1980s and early 1990s the Hertford-born artist was a well-regarded figure whose work sold especially well in continental Europe. He shared a Shoreditch studio with David Robilliard, an equally revered artist and poet who also had an impish iconoclasm, and was often perceived as a protégé of Gilbert & George."

"'People don't know this side of me. I want them to see that this came from a passionate place, in an attempt to try to get somewhere with it,' says Jack White, walking me round his first London exhibition, These Thoughts May Disappear, the day before it opens at Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery. Upon first thought, it is perhaps an unexpected move from White, better known as a musician and frontman of bands including The White Stripes and The Raconteurs and founder of Third Man Records. Yet, even a cursory glance into White's background reveals a creative polymath who has always worked across multiple disciplines, interested in those hazy spaces where music, art and design begin to blur."

"Review describes Brown’s first major UK institutional show as immersive, layered and built around abstraction, figuration and memory."