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Dale Berning Sawa

Dale Berning Sawa is a freelance writer based in London

September 2024

  • Jan Hakon Erichsen

    Nude descending a staircase on a skateboard: Jan Hakon Erichsen’s viral video art

    The artist explains how he became an Instagram star by smashing vegetables, popping balloons – and nearly killing himself with a knife sculpture

August 2024

  • Overhead view of three women making a celebratory toast with aperol spritz cocktails<br>MW040W Overhead view of three women making a celebratory toast with aperol spritz cocktails

    ‘It’s the meaning of happiness’: How the Aperol spritz took over the summer

  • ¡Kachkaniraqkun! ¡Somos aún! ¡We are, still!, 2018.

    From the Andes to Amsterdam: the artist reimagining indigenous cultures

July 2024

  • Hidden depths of flavour … miso soup.

    The miso miracle: how to use the ingredient that makes every dish delicious

    Central to Japanese cooking, it has apparently been around since 200BC – yet has become the taste of the summer in the UK. Chefs explain how it can improve the flavour of almost everything, from ice cream to pasta dishes to cocktails
  • Dominique White photographed in front of Deadweight in production, 2024.

    ‘I always want to grapple with an unruly beast’: the ghostly works of Dominique White

    The artist’s vast sculptures are constructed from unspooled twine and metal ribs that have been submerged in seawater, using the motif of shipwrecks to question history, hope and the afterlife
  • Shapeshifts between danger and comfort … How to slip out of your body quietly, 2018.

    Firelei Báez review – bring on the furry ciguapas: magnetic visions of diaspora

    The Dominican Republic-born artist’s first UK solo show is a thrill, her works combining mythology, botany and female agency in beautifully realised imagery and installation

June 2024

  • Bharti Kher, Six Women, 2012-14.

    ‘My sculptures are alive. They dance around the gallery at night’: the viscerally spiritual art of Bharti Kher

    Invoking philosophy, womanhood and religion, the Delhi- and London-based artist turns material objects into something truly human

May 2024

  • All night long … a Ming Smith shot of Grace Jones at Studio 54 in New York. © Ming Smith, courtesy of the Artist

    Grace Jones shakes her bones! Great moments in after-dark photography

  • Playful spirit … one of the seven sculptures from Prank, in Phyllida Barlow: Unscripted.

    Phyllida Barlow: Unscripted review – exhilarating glimpses of a colossal talent

  • goldfinch on a branch

    The pet I'll never forget
    The pet I’ll never forget: Pi-chan the goldfinch, the baby bird we refused to let die

  • Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde (1866), defaced by performer Deborah de Robertis.

    Hurrah for the Courbet vandals: defacing the vulva painting is basic feminism

    Dale Berning Sawa

April 2024

  • A village in Cévennes, France.

    Who complains about church bells or cicadas in France? You’d be surprised

    Dale Berning Sawa
  • homemade chicken nuggets

    Ditch the UPFs! How to make easy, healthy convenience foods – from fizzy drinks to flapjacks

February 2024

  • Dale Berning Sawa at her kitchen table with jars of her home-made fermented food.

    The microbiome miracle: how to make your own kombucha, kefir, kimchi and kraut

    The ‘four Ks’ aren’t just tasty but good for your health – and all are surprisingly easy to create at home. Start fermenting!

December 2023

  • ‘I found myself swaying even when I wasn’t holding her’ … Dale Berning Sawa with baby Tsubamé in January 2014.

    A Christmas that changed me
    A Christmas that changed me: I was a sleep-deprived new mother. My Mum’s friend saved the day

    Hazel was as much at sea as I was. But we were able to help each other and having her there meant the world to me

October 2023

  • ‘I didn’t even realise what I was expressing in that song’ … Olúwa Jọ by Tammy Sinclair.

    ‘It is just raw feeling!’: Afrobeats star Mr Eazi on how his debut album caused an art explosion

    After a painting stopped him in his tracks, the singer asked 13 artists to create a work for each track of The Evil Genius. It has been, he says, ‘the most therapeutic journey’ – and it’s on show in London

September 2023

  • Doolaard with some wooden planks on sawhorses in the snow with mountains in the background

    ‘Why are 500,000 people watching paint dry?’ The man behind YouTube’s DIY sensation

  • Saied Dai’s portrait of Theresa May.

    Saied Dai on his Theresa May portrait: ‘Thank God I didn’t have to paint Boris!’

July 2023

  • Close-up of young woman with laptop

    How an email mixup led to me befriending my namesake – and a glimpse of a wholesome second life

    Dale Berning Sawa
    A message meant for another Dale, sent by his 88-year-old sister, revealed the fascinating world of like-named people, says the writer Dale Berning Sawa

June 2023

  • A rainbow of fruits and vegetables arranged on a wooden table

    Eat the rainbow! 10 spectacular salads to help you eat 30 plants a week

    The more colourful your plate, the more nourishing it will be, too. Here’s how to eat the widest range of veg – while having your most delicious summer ever
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