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Let it show: find an event for every day until Christmas with our culture advent calendar
From The Nutcracker in Glasgow and the Human League in Cardiff to Messiaen in Manchester and Maggie Mistletoe in Farnham, our critics pick the best cultural events in the run-up to Christmas
Shown alongside his own art, its pages have inspired new commissions that speak to Jarman’s pervasive influence, including works by Luke Fowler, known for his elliptical documentaries of outsider figures, and Jade de Montserrat, who considers gender, race and class through a rural lens. Based on William Burroughs’s 1985 novella, it’s set in Mexico City and follows an American expat (Craig) who falls head over heels for a younger guy (Drew Starkey), a drug user who has been discharged from the navy. Conjured in painstaking pointillist layers of pigment, her typical subjects include closeups of screen characters with a singular glamour and drawn curtains with their suspenseful promise of a secular rather than spiritual revelation: the longed-for star taking the stage.
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