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...Peer through the latticed windows, however, and you could fancy you see the tousle-haired Hamnet as he thuds noisily down the stairs, and hear the creak of the ladder as William climbs to the tiny attic...
...Shadowy portraits, often of somewhat pensive-looking girls, a body of work composed of thousands upon thousands of tiny coloured pencil strokes reminiscent of Seurat, Ruscha and Agnes Martin....
...Alongside is König’s own, swiftly organised version of an art fair — called the Messe in St Agnes (his gallery is in a former church)....
...From large-scale pieces, such as the five-metre plaster and fibreglass “Untitled (Stairs)”, a near-surreal stairway to nowhere, and the concrete “Chicken Shed”, which stands on Tate’s lawn facing the river...
...But the Guggenheim’s Agnes Martin retrospective suggests that escape can become another kind of imprisonment....
...As he is preparing his shot, another girl walks past him, also going down the stairs, also wearing a pale dress with her hair in a bob, also carrying a bottle — an eerie doppelgänger....
...The other is a retrospective of the Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi, whom some glib label-lover once called “the Indian Agnes Martin”. “She’s nothing like Agnes Martin!” Wagstaff sputters....
...I live in a five-storey house, so running up and down the stairs keeps me fit. Ambition or talent: which matters more to success?...
...At first glance, those elegant grids echo the cool, whitewashed aesthetic of Agnes Martin....
...Tools like Agnes proved especially useful in exploring one sector that Coughlin sees as critical to the future: transport....
...Until the second world war, British society would simply have stopped working without the people below stairs....
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