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• Alternative Miss World: latex, inflatables and giant jellyfish

  20 Oct 2014: Inspired by Crufts, Alternative Miss World has welcomed everyone from Angie Bowie to David Hockney. Ellie Violet Bramley spends a night behind the scenes at the riotous dressing up extravaganza – and is still picking the glitter out of her hair

• Framed movements: art at Melbourne festival 2014 – in pictures

  19 Oct 2014: From urban grasslands sprouting on the state library steps to Carsten Höller’s golden mirror carousel at NGV, the best of the art at Melbourne festival

• From the archive, 18 October 1976: Controversial art plunges in to the rusty hilt at the ICA

  18 Oct 2014: Originally published in the Guardian on 18 October 1976: Genesis P-Orridge’s art collective Coum Transmissions causes uproar with its performance and exhibition Prostitution

• The Alternative Miss World – in pictures

  17 Oct 2014: At the Alternative Miss World, anything goes. Ahead of this year’s pageant, here’s a timeline of its most eccentric moments – from Grayson Perry on a cross to Derek Jarman dressed as a crêpe suzette

• Blow the bloody doors off! The 10-year-old girls hacking apart cars for art

  1 Oct 2014: Neil Frizzell: Artist Dina Rončević was only allowed to clean the floor when she trained as a mechanic – so she’s now letting girls loose on scrap cars as an art project

• Arts head: Gemma Paintin, co-artistic director, Action Hero

  Guardian Professional, 30 Sep 2014: The live art and performance company co-founder on the struggles of independent artists and the secret to collaboration

• From the archive, 27 September 1967: Yoko Ono in Liverpool - review

  27 Sep 2014: Originally published in the Guardian on 27 September 1967: The Guardian’s reviewer is bemused by Yoko Ono’s interactive performance at Bluecoat Chambers

• Brisbane festival 2014: one perfect day

  18 Sep 2014: Want to maximise your festival fun? Circle Saturday 20 September in the diary. You’ll need skates to zoom between venues, but it’s the day to experience the best of Brisbane, writes Alexandra Spring
  

• Poet, performer, novelist: the rise of the uncategorisable Kate Tempest

  12 Sep 2014:

  Mercury nomination and place on prestigious list of poets are well-deserved accolades for bright young performer

• Exhibit B, the human zoo, is a grotesque parody – boycott it

  12 Sep 2014: Kehinde Andrews: This show perpetuates objectification of the black body. If you pay to see it you’re colluding in the worst kind of racial abuse

• Brisbane festival: Theatre Republic – in pictures

  10 Sep 2014: The weird and wonderful acts calling Theatre Republic home at the Brisbane festival

• Exhibit B: is the 'human zoo' racist? The performers respond

  5 Sep 2014: The show, which displays live black actors, has been targeted by protesters, but the actors say that it is a powerful depiction of racism past and present

• Reclaiming the rooftops of Spain for cultural events

  1 Sep 2014:

  Look up and you'll find non-profit group Redetejas is transforming the rooftops into vibrant community spaces

• Will cyborgs turn art into a supersensory futureworld?

  27 Aug 2014:

  Jonathan Jones: Cyborg art is coming ever closer to reality. What will its most daring stunt yet – the first live 'skull transmission' painting – reveal about the future of creativity?

• Marina Abramović: 'This piece is deeper and more profound than anything I've ever done before'

  23 Aug 2014:

  The performance artist talks to Rachel Cooke about her marathon Serpentine show, not being marriage material and her legacy

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