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Art without the galleries

A guide to some of this summer's best public art

Jun 15, 2022
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It feels like we can finally say that summer has arrived this week. To celebrate we’ve put together a guide to the artistic offerings don’t require you to spend time in a gallery that was stuffy even before they saw the electricity bill and turned the air conditioning off. An added bonus: everything in here is completely free to see.

There’s pavilions in the park, bucking broncos in a car park, and tattoos in… Well, the tattoos are in a tattoo parlour, but it involves an Egyptian mummy and vials of human blood, so that definitely qualifies it as art.

The Serpentine Pavilion

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