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PreviewIan Hamilton Finlay’s Republic is The Week in Art’s Work of the Week
May 6 2025 For The Art Newspaper’s The Week in Art podcast, Ben Luke spoke to Stephen Bann about this sculptural work, currently... Read More -
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Ali Banisadr talks to critic John Vincler for Cultured ahead of Katonah Museum of Art exhibition
March 13 2025 '[Banisadr] looks, he reads, and has a seemingly infinite curiosity that informs and compels him in his own work. His show at Katonah welcomes everybody into the conversation.' Read More -
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Celia Paul’s essay Painting Myself features in The New York Review of Books
March 13 2025 'My recent self-portraits... owe their success to the power of my defiance. "I am a survivor," they are clearly saying. I am self-enclosed, as if the paint were my armour.' Read More
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Exhibitions celebrating the centenary of Ian Hamilton Finlay feature in The Times Scotland
March 1 2025 '...Finlay saw himself as a disruptor, someone who challenged the establishment and picked quarrels with it, whenever he felt its power was being misused.' Read More -
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Saskia Colwell: Skin on Skin is featured in Wallpaper*
February 24 2025 An arched torso bows towards us from a slender, arrow-slit-sized canvas: the planetary outlines of breasts, taut white skin, the... Read More -
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Art Review selects At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World as one of its exhibitions to see in January
January 6 2025 ’For Alice Neel, her practice of painting people from many walks of life, from neighbours to writers, performers, artists, politicians and activists – friends and strangers – led her to share this intimate space with a dizzyingly diverse range of subjects.’ – Louise Benson. The exhibition opens in London on 30 January. Read More
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The World of Interiors Previews María Berrío: The End of Ritual
November 16 2024 'These somewhat restless images are an attempt to grapple with a new world order, one that has largely done away with forms of human connection and ceremony on which we relied for so long.' Read More -
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Jackie Wullschläger previews two major Paula Rego exhibitions in the Financial Times
August 28 2024 Exhibitions at The Holburne Museum, Bath and Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, both opening September 2024, contextualise Rego’s celebrated Nursery Rhymes works. Read More -
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The Guardian: ‘To represent blackness as beautiful was radical’: the astonishing art – and lives – of the Holder brothers
May 31 2024 ‘From ballet-dancing in New York to playing a Bond villain, Trinidad-born brothers Boscoe and Geoffrey Holder led extraordinary lives. But it’s as trailblazing painters of black portraits and nudes that they will be remembered.’ – Joshua Surtees Read More
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Whitewall features Ali Banisadr: The Changing Past in its best London exhibitions
October 12 2023 The practice of Ali Banisadr carefully draws from history, art history, and the techniques of various schools of art and... Read More -
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Harper’s Bazaar features Paula Rego: Letting Loose
October 11 2023 ‘The paintings are in keeping with her career-long fascination with the animal nature of humans, often using the poses and... Read More -
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Paula Rego: Letting Loose features in the Frieze critics’ guide to London exhibitions
October 11 2023 ‘It’s not hard to see why these works so significantly boosted Rego’s reputation: they are vibrant, humorous and astonishingly detailed,... Read More
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‘The economy of her painting is extraordinary’ – Chantal Joffe on Alice Neel
February 11 2023 Chantal Joffe discusses paintings in the Barbican’s exhibition Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle (16 February–21 May 2023). Read More -
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‘She created a space where people could reveal themselves’ – The Guardian previews Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle at the Barbican
February 6 2023 Few 20th-century star artists seem as much their own creation as the painter Alice Neel. While New York thrummed to... Read More
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Yayoi Kusama and Alice Neel feature in artnet’s top shows in Europe to see in 2023
January 2 2023 Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons at Factory International, Manchester, and Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle at Barbican... Read More -
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Isaac Julien, Alice Neel and Paula Rego feature in The Guardian’s 2023 culture preview
December 27 2022 Isaac Julien, Alice Neel and Paula Rego feature in The Guardian’s art-design to-do list for the year ahead. A solo... Read More -
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Secundino Hernández features in Wallpaper’s guide to Frieze week
October 8 2022 Spanish artist Secundino Hernández’s textured, scratched and blurred canvases explore painting in its rawest form, drawing on both historic and... Read More
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‘Rothko’s guru: how Milton Avery transformed modern art’ – The Telegraph previews Milton Avery: American Colourist at the Royal Academy of Arts
July 6 2022 The story of how Milton Avery came to shape modern American art is really a love story. It begins in... Read More -
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Milton Avery featured in The Observer’s best summer culture guide
May 30 2022 'Gentle, unassuming, with his outstanding gift for colour and his simplified grace, Milton Avery (1885-1965) is a singular master of... Read More -
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The FT previews Flora Yukhnovich’s new exhibition, Thirst Trap
March 1 2022 From Fellini to Doja Cat: Flora Yukhnovich’s vision of Venus. By Baya Simons In ancient mythology, the god Saturn turned... Read More
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The New York Times previews Penn Station’s major new permanent installations, featuring work by Stan Douglas and Elmgreen & Dragset
December 30 2020 Sunlight is not typically associated with the dingy basement vibe that envelops commuters passing through Penn Station. But natural light... Read More -
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Art Basel OVR Curators’ Picks – Massimiliano Gioni selects Paula Rego
October 30 2020 The New Museum’s artistic director finds themes and trends in OVR:20c, selecting Paula Rego's Study for Caritas, 1993, among works... Read More -
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Wallpaper* writes about Stan Douglas’ Doppelgänger
February 14 2020 History is fickle; those who write it are fickler still. The slippage between truth and fiction has been a long-standing... Read More -
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Jackie Wullschläger selects Hedda Sterne for the FT’s Critics’ Choice
January 25 2020 ‘Motion and lights were always Sterne's subjects; now the sense of speed animating her "New York" paintings yielded to the meditative, impressive series Vertical-Horizontals, featuring luminous striated lines and quivering uneven bands. They are the focus of this first UK show…’ Read More
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Anatomy of an Artwork: Wangechi Mutu’s She Walks in The Guardian
October 11 2019 The artist blends nature, fashion and science to create an elegant, race-spanning amalgam of femininity Walk the walk… Wangechi Mutu's... Read More -
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Yayoi Kusama features on the cover of Numéro Magazine ahead of her major public work for Place Vendôme
October 8 2019 Out on 11 October 2019, Numéro's art issue features a 16-page profile of the artist who will take over Place... Read More -
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Wallpaper* dives into Phaidon’s new Elmgreen & Dragset monograph
May 27 2019 Berlin-based artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have never staged an official mid-career retrospective – but that’s not because the... Read More
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Olivia Laing writes about Chantal Joffe in the Paris Review
April 11 2019 Chantal Joffe’s Many Faces Here’s the setup: palette, chair, mirror. The mirror is bandaged together with red-and-white tape that says... Read More -
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Skye Sherwin writes about Tal R’s House Red in The Guardian
February 2 2019 The Danish painter evokes a sense of loss with a colourful palette and sharp geometric lines. Home, sweet home …... Read More -
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Louise Benson writes about Chantal Joffe’s Herb at Sixteen as part of Elephant’s Contemporary Classics series
June 3 2018 The inevitable self-consciousness of tender teenage years is conjured in Herb at Sixteen, a portrait of a friend's son, as... Read More
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Wallpaper* writes about Do Ho Suh in Venice
May 30 2018 The South Korean artist Do Ho Suh, is a perfect complement to ‘Freespace’, the theme of the 2018 Venice Architecture... Read More -
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Vogue writes about Tal R: this is not Detroit at MOCA Detroit
May 10 2018 At the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Tal R Paints the Michigan Of His Dreams. Julia Felsenthal Detroit has always... Read More -
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Elephant features Adriana Varejão’s Parede con Incisão a la Fontana 3 in its Contemporary Classics column
April 22 2018 Adriana Varejão’s slashes after Lucio Fontana have a more gruesome story to tell than her predecessor’s punctures, making it a... Read More
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Francesca Gavin writes about Surface Work in the Financial Times
April 3 2018 The current trend dominating the art market is the rediscovery and repositioning of female artists as central to the canon... Read More -
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Ahead of the exhibition All Too Human at Tate Britain, Kate Paul discusses the experience of sitting for her sister, Celia
February 3 2018 Interview by Rebecca Nicholson I’m the one lying down with my head on the pillow. It’s not often that I... Read More -
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The FT previews Jorge Pardo at Victoria Miro
January 31 2018 The Cuban-American artist Jorge Pardo made his name in the late 1990s with colourful, exuberant works that set out to... Read More
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Jackie Wullschlager selects Jules de Balincourt: They Cast Long Shadows in FT Critics’ Choice
January 13 2018 ''They Cast Long Shadows' is the title the French-American painter gives to his latest dystopian imaginings: a group of acid-bright,... Read More -
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Jules de Balincourt: They Cast Long Shadows featured in The Telegraph’s The Critical List
January 13 2018 'The New York-based French artist's multi-layered paintings blur the boundaries of fantasy and reality with sumptuous colour.' Read more ... Read More -
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The Art Newspaper reports on works from Elmgreen & Dragset’s Istanbul Biennial exhibition travelling to Munich
December 19 2017 Elmgreen & Dragset bring a bit of Istanbul Biennial to Germany Curators of this year’s show, with the theme of... Read More
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Wallpaper* visits the Yayoi Kusama Museum in Tokyo
November 23 2017 By Danielle Demetriou Glowing pumpkins, psychedelic polka dots and infinite mirror reflections: the grand dame of Japan’s art world, Yayoi... Read More -
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Wangechi Mutu at The Contemporary Austin
November 15 2017 A short film produced by The Contemporary Austin of Wangechi Mutu's two-venue exhibition (until 14 January 2018) See more Film... Read More -
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The LA Times previews Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at The Broad
October 18 2017 By Deborah Vankin Blame it on Katy Perry. Or maybe Adele. The popularity of Yayoi Kusama’s trippy, immersive Infinity Mirror... Read More
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Artsy previews the new children’s book Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity
October 13 2017 By Casey Lesser What’s the best way to introduce kids to Yayoi Kusama? Start with the dots. That’s what Museum... Read More -
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The Guardian visits the Yayoi Kusama Museum ahead of its public opening
September 30 2017 Avant-garde legend Yayoi Kusama gets her own museum in Tokyo By Justin McCurry Yayoi Kusama is about to apply a... Read More -
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The New York Times previews the Yayoi Kusama Museum in Tokyo
September 28 2017 By Motoko Rich Yayoi Kusama, the celebrated Japanese artist whose compulsively repetitive images have drawn huge crowds and critical acclaim... Read More
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Blouin Artinfo writes about Celia Paul: The Sea and The Mirror
September 25 2017 Victoria Miro, Venice is currently hosting an exhibition of works titled “The Sea and The Mirror” by artist Celia Paul.... Read More -
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Artinfo previews Alice Neel: Painter of Modern Life, coming to Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
August 15 2017 A slideshow of images from the forthcoming exhibition (13 October 2017 - 14 January 2018) at Deichtorhallen , Hamburg. View... Read More -
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The LA Times reports on the completion of the Wilshire Grand, featuring a major commission by Do Ho Suh
June 27 2017 By Thomas Curwen Architect Chris King isn’t entirely sure when Reyner Banham clicked, but the English critic’s theories about Los... Read More
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Elmgreen & Dragset reveal details of the Istanbul Biennial to The Art Newspaper
June 16 2017 Artist duo commissioning 30 works for exhibition focusing on idea of home. By Gareth Harris The high-profile Scandinavian artist duo... Read More -
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Channel News Asia previews Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow at National Gallery Singapore
June 5 2017 While National Gallery Singapore’s blockbuster exhibition is a great chance for all your OOTD photos on social media, let’s also... Read More -
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Culture Whisper previews Milton Avery
June 3 2017 The work of American Modernist Milton Avery will grace the walls of Victoria Miro in his first UK exhibition for... Read More
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Grayson Perry writes in the Guardian and reveals two new works ahead of his Serpentine Galleries show
May 29 2017 The title of an exhibition is usually the last thing I think of, often only after the gallery curator has... Read More -
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Hettie Judah writes about Alice Neel, Uptown in inews
May 17 2017 Alice Neel: Sixties Harlem and the ‘unseen America’ come to London. By Hettie Judah Is it personal, lived experience that... Read More -
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Anatomy of an Artwork: Alice Neel's Benjamin featured in the Guardian
May 12 2017 Alice Neel's Benjamin: light mood, dark truth. By Skye Sherwin By the time she painted this portrait, Neel was part... Read More
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Channel News Asia previews The Universe and Art, featuring Jules de Balincourt and Conrad Shawcross
April 2 2017 Outer space, aliens, art: 3 reasons why ArtScience Museum’s new show is out of this world. By Mayo Martin SINGAPORE:... Read More -
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Artnet previews The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest, featuring Elmgreen & Dragset
March 31 2017 Provocative Mermaids Woo Visitors to Warsaw MoMA’s Inaugural Show. By Sarah Cascone Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has a... Read More -
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NS Harsha: Charming Journey previewed in Artforum
January 20 2017 Mori Art Museum Tokyo February 4–June 11 Curated by Mami Kataoka In the painting Come Give Us a Speech, 2008,... Read More
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NS Harsha: Charming Journey one of Newsweek's must-see exhibitions in 2017
January 2 2017 If you go to just five exhibitions next year, make sure it's these ones. By Francesca Gavin N.S. Harsha (Tokyo,... Read More -
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Yayoi Kusama exhibitions among Apollo’s global highlights of 2017
December 29 2016 Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition at the National Art Centre in Tokyo (22 February–22 May), and a separate one at the National... Read More -
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Celia Paul creates an exclusive cover for the fourth annual edition of Bazaar Art
October 6 2016 The fourth annual edition of Bazaar Art – distributed free with our November issue, on sale from 4 October –... Read More
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Autumn 2016 issue of Elephant features an eight-page interview with Njideka Akunyili Crosby
October 3 2016 Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Portals on the World by Charlotte Jansen. The High Line in New York offers many spectacular views... Read More -
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Protest is featured in FT Critics' Choice by Jackie Wullschlager
September 30 2016 Gallery artists living and dead confront power structures and their impact on migration, censorship, struggles for democracy and equality across... Read More -
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Protest is one of Ben Luke’s Frieze Week highlights in The Evening Standard
September 30 2016 Frieze Art Fair 2016 – the highlights By Ben Luke. Frieze is a paradise for those of us who love... Read More
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Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia one of Harper's Bazaar's best Frieze Week events
September 29 2016 With their themes of intimacy and isolation, the works on display at Celia Paul's new solo show at Victoria Miro,... Read More -
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Chantal Joffe featured in Harper's Bazaar: What to see at Frieze 2016
September 29 2016 The prestigious art fairs Frieze London and Frieze Masters return to Regent's Park from 6 to 9 October; here's what... Read More -
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The Economist on Njideka Akunyili Crosby
September 28 2016 Njideka Akunyili Crosby, a young artist based in Los Angeles, is currently the talk of the art world. Dozens of... Read More
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Celia Paul: Desdemona for Hilton by Celia featured in FT Critics' Choice by Jackie Wullschlager
September 24 2016 Paul works from life only on intensely known motifs, building up and scraping down impasto surfaces whose making mirrors processes... Read More -
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Power to... the art of protest, as featured in The Observer
September 23 2016 Politically engaged art is thriving again, finding new ways to challenge in a complex digital world. We look at the... Read More -
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Yayoi Kusama: Sculptures, Paintings & Mirror Rooms previewed in The Telegraph
May 27 2016 Going dotty for Yayoi Kusama. By Louisa Buck. The name Yayoi Kusama conjures up spots before the eyes; an infinity... Read More
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Do Ho Suh: Passage previewed in Wallpaper*
February 15 2016 Tracing space: Do Ho Suh at Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati By Charlotte Jansen Bill Clinton was one of the first... Read More -
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NS Harsha | Dallas Museum of Art
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Varda Caivano: The Density of the Actions at The Renaissance Society, Chicago
until 19 April 2015 Varda Caivano presents a new body of work at The Renaissance Society, Chicago (22 Feb - 19 April 2015). The... Read More
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Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves featured in The Wall Street Journal
November 22 2013 Immigrant Drama on Nine Screens. By Kelly Crow. In the late 1980s, Isaac Julien became a hit of London's contemporary... Read More -
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Yayoi Kusama | Whitney Museum New York
July 12 2012 The largest retrospective dedicated to Yayoi Kusama opened at the Whitney Museum on 12 July 2012. Charting the nine decades... Read More -
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Idris Khan: New York Times Magazine cover
March 1 2012 Idris Khan was commissioned by The New York Times Magazine to produce five photographs for their London issue on Sunday... Read More -
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Elmgreen & Dragset Unveil Powerless Structures, Fig. 101
February 20 2012 Elmgreen & Dragset's new commission Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square was unveiled by Joanna... Read More
