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A sculptor famous for his surreal public art installations has unveiled his latest creation - a disused office building that is covered in zips. British artist Alex Chinneck, renowned for creating the illusion that the facade of an abandoned house had slipped down, put the finishing touches on his creation last night. Huge zippers have been installed on the front and back of the building, in Ashford, Kent, giving the impression the building can be completely opened up. Brundett House...

Ryan Weeks’ Pimple (out now on Amazon UK), takes a satirical swipe at Generation Y’s insatiable hunger for new apps. Set in the edgy world of London’s sex industry, it’s a darkly-witty tale about an Uber-style app for the sex trade called ‘Pimple’, and a cautionary one about the impact of ‘disruptive technology’ on society. The theme may sound raunchy, but this is no sleazy read. The author avoids dwelling on bedroom details or bloody depictions of violence. Instead, he...

Torrential downpours and stormy gales forced bosses of the family festival at Lulworth Castle in Dorset to close the main arena on Sunday afternoon.

Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge is displaying the exhibition

The 83-year-old swapped the kitchen for the stage

We caught up with Steve Bugeja ahead of his Edinburgh Fringe show. What is your show about?  My show is about me being stuck on a 13 hour flight next to a drunk, loose lipped stranger. To make things worse at the start of the flight I receive a text from my girlfriend saying ... 'we need to talk'! This triggers 13 hours of me worrying myself senseless. The show is about overthinking. Can you overthink things? I don't think...

We caught up with Carl Donnelly ahead of his show at the Edinburgh Fringe festival What is your show about? It’s about my last ten years and how since starting comedy i’ve firmly joined the middle classes. It’s a very white middle class industry that in the last few years has finally started trying to progress and become more diverse. I find it funny that i’ve spent my life trying to escape the working classes just as it’s become something...

Commonly seen as a theatre of the absurd play, Exit the King (this is a new version by Patrick Marber) is one of four by Eugène Ionesco where the main protagonist Berenger is written as a kind of Every Person. Though Ionesco is a towering presence in the history of modern theatre, often grouped by critic and scholar Martin Esslin with writers like Sam Beckett and Jean Genet, this is the first time his work has ever been performed at...

Photographer Hugh Brown uncovered those exposed to the harshest and most dangerous ways of making a living