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ReviewAli Banisadr: The Alchemist is reviewed by The Brooklyn Rail
June 4 2025 '...Banisadr transforms memories and observations into new worlds governed by enigmatic forces that somehow leave us looking at the light.' Read More -
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Ian Hamilton Finlay: Fragments is reviewed in Sculpture Magazine
May 12 2025 'This much-deserved centenary celebration demonstrates the continued relevance of his questioning work.' Read More -
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Reviews for Do Ho Suh: Walk the House at Tate Modern
April 29 2025 ★★★★ from The Times, The Telegraph and The Standard: 'His yearning, spectral installations, addressing memory, are both formally ingenious and emotionally affecting.' Read More
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Celia Paul: Colony of Ghosts is reviewed by Observer
March 31 2025 'She is deeply focused, delving inward as if mining the soul. This cannot be easy, finding such an elusive essence; yet somehow, in all her paintings, even the chair and the bed, there is this ephemeral, hovering essence.' Read More -
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Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur reviewed in The Times
March 26 2025 ★★★★ '“We look at art through the fractured and tinted lens of our own experience.” With this playful but thoughtful show, he liberates us to do just that.' Read More -
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The Observer reviews Ian Hamilton Finlay at the National Galleries of Scotland
March 23 2025 ★★★★ 'His is an art of distillation, juxtaposition, thrift and contemplation... Finlay understood as few other artists the emotional power of letters cutting into form, shape and colour.' Read More
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At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World reviewed in The Times
January 30 2025 ★★★★ 'And this is Neel's skill, quite apart from her ingenious use of colour (her skins are superb, flaws and all) and keen observation. She draws out the person, gives them life on the canvas.' Read More -
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María Berrío: The End of Ritual reviewed in Frieze
December 10 2024 ‘These works are metaphors for survival, piecing together fragments to make sense of a broken world.’ – Sofia Hallström Read More -
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The Times reviews Uncanny Visions: Paula Rego and Francisco de Goya
September 26 2024 ★★★★ 'Exposing the primal, the perverse, the forbidden, these artists distil a brooding atmosphere of menace.' – Rachel Campbell Johnston Read More
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The Telegraph reviews Yayoi Kusama: EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE
September 23 2024 ★★★★★ ‘This show is pop-making brilliance; the radiance of Kusama’s consciousness reaches out to tickle the mind of the viewer with levity and humour.’ – Evgenia Siokos Read More -
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Alex Greenberger reviews Isaac Julien installations at MoMA and the Whitney Museum, on view in New York
July 12 2024 'In all three, he takes up storied figures of Black history, resisting history lessons and clichés in the process.' Read More -
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Waldemar Januszczak reviews Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo at The Wallace Collection
June 16 2024 ‘…there are hints of giant rococo fruit and a sense, too, of figures flying through the sky. But who, what and where are withheld. It’s a poem of moods…’ Read More
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Artforum commends Isaac Julien in its review of the Whitney Biennial
June 13 2024 ‘In one of the Biennial’s standout works, Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die), 2022, Julien seems keenly aware that any encounter with the historical past is invariably a double-sided affair, with the present inevitably reinterpreting the past as much as the past might seek to guide the present.’ – Andrew V. Uroskie Read More -
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Laura Cumming reviews Do Ho Suh: Tracing Time
March 10 2024 ★★★★★ Do Ho Suh: Tracing Time review – an extraordinarily beautiful search for home A man runs along the bottom... Read More -
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Doron Langberg: Night is reviewed by Elephant
February 14 2024 Two figures intertwined, lips locked, arms wrapped around the other. Two individual bodies hotly soldered into one. Two halves indistinct... Read More -
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Stephen Willats: Time Tumbler is reviewed by ArtReview
January 16 2024 The British conceptual artist reaches out to the community to find a new visual language At the heart of British... Read More -
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Studio International reviews Stephen Willats: Time Tumbler
December 6 2023 As contemporary artists and curators work hard to make art and exhibitions more outward-facing, less self-referential, and actively engaging for... Read More
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Hernan Bas speaks to Cultured about his new exhibition The Conceptualists
December 5 2023 'The Conceptualists stems from a series loosely based on the hobbies that emerged in the pandemic,' the artist explains. 'Everyone... Read More -
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Ali Banisadr: The Changing Past is reviewed by The Brooklyn Rail
November 15 2023 Imagine a reality where the future is historical and the past contemporary, where time stands still and simultaneously moves on.... Read More -
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Elephant reviews Ali Banisadr: The Changing Past
November 2 2023 Ali Banisadr Pieces a Fragmented World Back Together In The Changing Past at Victoria Miro Bella Bonner-Evans Contemplating Ali Banisadr’s... Read More
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Paula Rego: Letting Loose is reviewed by Hyperallergic
October 25 2023 Paula Rego’s Animal Farm By AX Mina To enter Paula Rego’s paintings is to step into a tumbling, chaotic world... Read More -
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Ali Banisadr: The Changing Past features in Ocula’s London must-see gallery exhibitions
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Chloë Ashby reviews Real Families: Stories of Change for The Guardian
October 9 2023 ‘Among the best is Chantal Joffe, who remembers realising while she was studying at the Royal College of Art in... Read More
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Hannah Silver for Wallpaper* reviews Paula Rego: Letting Loose
October 2 2023 ‘The pictures Paula made during the 1980s were rooted in personal experiences, and she ended up keeping many of them... Read More -
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The Art Newspaper reviews Grayson Perry: Smash Hits
September 4 2023 ★★★★ ‘Perry’s ceramics, sculptures, prints and large-scale tapestries could have been made for this space.’ Read More
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Grayson Perry: Smash Hits is reviewed by The Times
August 1 2023 ★★★★ ‘He’s our Hogarth: satire, taste, a gift for telling detail.’ – Laura Freeman Read More -
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Laura Cumming reviews Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden
July 30 2023 ‘…Most powerful of all is the whispered conversation between two women, just off-centre. The wall text identifies them as the... Read More -
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The Scotsman reviews Grayson Perry: Smash Hits
July 24 2023 ★★★★★ Grayson Perry has written an intriguing essay for the catalogue of his exhibition, Smash Hits, and in it he... Read More
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Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden is reviewed by Ben Luke
July 18 2023 ★★★★ Paula Rego had a brutal but often funny and mischievous way of describing life as a painter. Few artists... Read More -
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Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins is reviewed by Tom Morton for ArtReview
July 3 2023 A new exhibition conjures a voluptuous unearthly realm where transgression gives way to fantasy in disorientating works that dazzle the... Read More
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The Guardian reviews Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons at Aviva Studios
June 30 2023 ★★★★★ ‘Kusama goes big to achieve something simple. You, Me and the Balloons is exactly what its title declares. She... Read More -
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Adrian Searle reviews Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins
June 2 2023 ★★★★★ Cloven-hoofed, carnal and knowing, the devil is prominent in all seven of Chris Ofili’s suite of large-scale and deeply... Read More -
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Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins reviewed by Ben Luke
June 2 2023 Just over a decade ago, Chris Ofili contributed to a fascinating show at the National Gallery in London called Metamorphosis:... Read More
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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: A Making of Ghosts is reviewed by Artforum
May 9 2023 In “A Making of Ghosts ,” Kudzanai-Violet Hwami plays with scale and perspective to collapse emotional states. In Murikishi (all... Read More -
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Jerry Saltz reviews Sarah Sze: Timelapse at the Guggenheim Museum
April 3 2023 ‘...seeing Sze commandeer a big space is to experience her at her full powers.’ – Jerry Saltz Read the full... Read More
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Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined at the New Museum is reviewed by The Wall Street Journal
March 22 2023 Featuring more than 100 works, a sprawling retrospective at the New Museum highlights the Kenyan-born artist’s stunning surrealism The subtitle... Read More -
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The Financial Times reviews Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined at the New Museum
March 15 2023 ‘The retrospective is titled Intertwined and, sure enough, her figures are constantly putting down roots or bursting free of them,... Read More -
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Roberta Smith reviews Wangechi Mutu at the New Museum in The New York Times
March 2 2023 ‘...Wangechi Mutu has turned the New Museum into a magical matriarchy. Or something close. It has become an enveloping, shadowy... Read More
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María Berrío: The Children’s Crusade is reviewed by The Boston Globe
February 26 2023 At the ICA, childhood lost in transition ‘The ambiguity is the point: Berrío’s works are powerfully alluring, both in craft... Read More -
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The World of Interiors reviews Two Worlds Entwined: Annie Morris and Idris Khan
February 23 2023 ‘This configuration captures the harmony between their lives, while also revealing points of conflict in their artistic relationship.’ Donna Salek... Read More -
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Alice Neel and Paula Rego are included in The FT’s visual arts roundup of 2022
December 31 2022 Jackie Wullschläger highlights Alice Neel and Paula Rego in The FT’s visual arts round up of the past year. Read... Read More
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Stephen Willats: Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs is reviewed by Tank Magazine
December 7 2022 ‘Even 50 years on, the project continues to change perceptions and increase understanding of the environment that people too often... Read More -
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María Berrío: The Land of the Sun is reviewed by Artforum
December 2 2022 ‘In The Land of the Sun, Berrío made audible the silence that follows a catastrophe. Her powerful narrative works convey... Read More -
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Studio International reviews Stephen Willats: Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs
November 2 2022 ‘The approach taken to the display of this material has achieved a degree of renewal that loops aspects of the... Read More
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Stephen Willats: Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs is reviewed by LeftLion
October 18 2022 ‘Showing fifty years after its inception, the exhibition at Bonington Gallery is the meridian of archived material from 1971 and... Read More -
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Time Out reviews Alice Neel: There’s Still Another I See
October 7 2022 ★★★★ Alice Neel was the chronic chronicler of New York. The painter (1900-1984) depicted the wretched and the beautiful of... Read More -
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Waldemar Januszczak reviews The Story of Art as it’s Still Being Written in The Sunday Times
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The Observer reviews The Story of Art Without Men
September 11 2022 'She brings to each artwork an attention that is both sober and pleasurable, a sensitive balance of probity, acceptance and... Read More -
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Prospect reviews The Story of Art without Men by Katy Hessel
September 8 2022 Francesca Peacock from Prospect reviews Katy Hessel's debut book The Story of Art without Men and exhibition The Story of... Read More -
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Rachel Campbell-Johnston reviews The Story of Art without Men for The Sunday Times
September 4 2022 'The Story of Art without Men determinedly challenges this patriarchal tale. It begins with the Renaissance, although that seems a... Read More
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Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die) by Isaac Julien is reviewed The New Yorker
August 11 2022 ‘Reflections interpolate visitors into the play of gazes; watching others, and being watched, in encounters with art, one becomes intimately... Read More -
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Milton Avery: American Colourist reviewed by Time Out
July 20 2022 ★★★★★ Art is serious. It’s meant to be experimental, avant-garde, intellectual, rigorous. But Milton Avery is something else: Milton Avery... Read More -
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The Financial Times reviews Milton Avery: American Colourist
July 18 2022 Space is airy and open, the cast list domestic and unheroic, a piercing sun or subdued lamplight in cosy interiors... Read More
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Laura Cumming reviews Milton Avery: American Colourist
July 17 2022 ★★★★★ There is a portrait by Milton Avery in this bewitching survey with the title Husband and Wife. It shows... Read More -
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Pictus Porrectus: Reconsidering the Full-Length Portrait featuring Celia Paul is reviewed by Vogue
July 15 2022 ‘A new generation of artists, who are now basically the establishment, were coming up and interrogating all of these prohibitions... Read More -
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Laura Freeman reviews Milton Avery: American Colourist for The Times
July 12 2022 ★★★★★ 'He was America’s first great modern colourist with a bracing, racing-silk palette.' “There have been others in our... Read More
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Milton Avery: American Colourist reviewed by The Telegraph
July 12 2022 ★★★★ 'It’s the first solo show of Avery’s work in a European public gallery, and it sweeps you through a... Read More -
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The Guardian reviews Milton Avery: American Colourist at the Royal Academy of Arts
July 12 2022 ★★★★★ 'To see this art so closely related to abstract expressionism yet rooted in nature opens a new vista on... Read More -
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The New York Times on Wangechi Mutu at Storm King
June 2 2022 'In a sense, making art is Mutu’s way of communicating — for her, it’s a form of meditation and prayer,... Read More
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Marina Warner reviews Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic for The Guardian, featuring work by Wangechi Mutu
May 16 2022 'She's a Giacometti-like female bust made of dark soil, charcoal, oyster shells, feathers, hide, china and hair. It's an alarming,... Read More -
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The New Yorks Times reviews the work of Milton Avery
May 12 2022 Roberta Smith takes a look at the work of Milton Avery, which is currently on view in Hartford and New... Read More -
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Studio International reviews Celia Paul: Memory and Desire
May 6 2022 'At Victoria Miro, a more diffuse and dappled light permeates the upper gallery and I begin to feel that I... Read More
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Celia Paul Letters to Gwen John is reviewed by The New York Times
April 27 2022 'For Paul, looking back in order to look forward, the artist who leaps across time is Gwen John — who... Read More -
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‘A room dedicated to the work of Paula Rego… was the best thing.’ – ArtReview reviews the 59th Venice Biennale exhibition The Milk of Dreams
April 27 2022 … So let’s get it out of the way: a room dedicated to the work of Paula Rego in the... Read More -
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‘The triumph… is a magnificent presentation of paintings and stuffed figures by Paula Rego’ – Laura Cumming reviews the Venice Biennale
April 24 2022 'Of the 213 artists, only 21 are men, which represents a complete reversal. More striking still is the novelty of... Read More
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‘Stan Douglas packs a punch’: The New York Times reviews the national pavilions at the Venice Biennale
April 22 2022 Stan Douglas, Vancouver's towering intellect of photography and video art... delves into the intersecting uprisings of 2011 (the Arab Spring,... Read More -
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Frieze reviews Stan Douglas at the 59th Venice Biennale
April 21 2022 Drawing a through line between the global social and political unrest of 2011 (e.g. the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street,... Read More -
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Sebastian Smee reviews Milton Avery at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in the Washington Post
March 16 2022 Milton Avery was the 20th century’s great ‘painter’s painter’ America’s most original colorist, the subject of new retrospective at... Read More
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Artforum reviews Milton Avery at The Modern, Fort Worth
December 13 2021 'The people, places, and things on display in the Milton Avery survey here are free of pomp and circumstance. Viewed... Read More -
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The Brooklyn Rail on Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvellous Entanglement
December 13 2021 'Typical of any Julien picture, Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvellous Entanglement stretches the narrative limits of film and instead... Read More -
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Milton Avery at The Modern, Fort Worth is reviewed by WSJ
December 8 2021 'A Luminary Outside the Mainstream... The painter's first retrospective since 1982 reveals the genius in his formal economy and use... Read More
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The Observer gives ★★★★★ for Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s
December 5 2021 'A mind-altering portrait of British Caribbean life through art': ★★★★★ from The Observer for Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s.... Read More -
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Paula Rego: The Forgotten reviewed by the Evening Standard
November 18 2021 ★★★★ Paula Rego: The Forgotten at Victoria Miro review - raw, shocking and free By Ben Luke Paula Rego’s recent... Read More -
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Doron Langberg: Give Me Love is reviewed by The Brooklyn Rail
November 4 2021 Doron Langberg: Give Me Love, by Claire Phillips There is a man floating in the bathtub. Iridescent violet, red, and... Read More
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Chantal Joffe: Story reviewed by Artforum
August 24 2021 Yes, it’s true, mothers are people too. “Most of the literature of infant care and psychology has assumed that the... Read More -
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Frieze reviews Born in Flames: Feminist Futures featuring María Berrío and Wangechi Mutu
July 15 2021 Visitors to ‘Born in Flames: Feminist Futures’ at The Bronx Museum of Arts will first encounter Wangechi Mutu’s Heelers (2016):... Read More
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