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ReviewChantal 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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‘Stunning is an understatement’, Laura Cumming reviews Paula Rego in The Observer
July 11 2021 Violence, eroticism and oppression converge as Rego’s deeply ambiguous work goes straight for the subconscious in this mesmerising seven-decade retrospective... Read More
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Rachel Campbell-Johnston reviews Paula Rego at Tate Britain
July 4 2021 'Rego, 86, offers us an unflinching view of the instinctive human animal — however creepy or painful, ferocious or cruel.... Read More -
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Chantal Joffe: Story reviewed by Studio International
June 22 2021 'Joffe is generous in what she shares in these paintings. Yes, they are closeup and personal. More than that, together... Read More
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The Wall Street Journal reviews Milton Avery: The Connecticut Years at the Wadsworth Atheneum
June 12 2021 An exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum provides a glimpse into the evolution of the 20th-century American modernist’s signature style. By... Read More -
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The Financial Times reviews Chantal Joffe: Story
June 9 2021 ‘Joffe’s mother peers out from her hallway, huddled between luscious vertical stripes in red, beige, black. It is a painting about seeing, painting — focusing, framing an image — and the extent to which we allow a slice of ourselves to be known.’ – Jackie Wullschläger Read More -
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Hettie Judah reviews Yayoi Kusama in iNews
June 6 2021 …everything in I Want Your Tears to Flow with the Words I Wrote at Victoria Miro is from the last... Read More
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Frieze reviews Idris Khan’s recent exhibition The Seasons Turn
May 24 2021 Conceived as two distinct installations at Victoria Miro, ‘The Seasons Turn’ sees Khan’s continued engagement with the devotionality of repetition,... Read More -
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The Financial Times: Paula Rego’s dazzling and radical visions
May 11 2021 The artist’s religiously inspired works, on show at the Cascais museum devoted to her, hand power to women. By Marina... Read More -
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Read Hilton Als – Alice Neel’s Portraits of Difference in The New Yorker
April 19 2021 A retrospective at the Met shows the artist’s deep feeling for all that she is not. She had no business... Read More
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Artforum on Ali Banisadr at the Benaki Museum
April 1 2021 'Banisadr’s imagery is mutable, the shapes materializing, shifting, and dissolving under the gaze and the alchemy of myriad cultural references... Read More -
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‘It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon’ – Roberta Smith reviews Alice Neel: People Come First
April 1 2021 A large retrospective feels at home in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s grandest galleries and should silence any doubt about... Read More -
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Laura Cumming reviews The Sky was Blue the Sea was Blue and the Boy was Blue
February 21 2021 ★★★★★ Cobalt, indigo, ultramarine; the colour of sadness and a summer’s day… in this uplifting virtual show, works by 19... Read More
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Jackie Wullschläger reviews Celia Paul: My Studio in the Financial Times
July 8 2020 'How curious that in lockdown this inward-gazing painter looked outward to supreme effect; how magnificent that she celebrates in the physicality of paint a symbol of the virtual connections which kept us united. Her towers stand as lyrical odes to lockdown London.' Read More -
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Afterall reviews Kudzanai-Violet Hwami at Gasworks
May 13 2020 In her first solo institutional show, London-based Zimbabwean-born painter Kudzanai-Violet Hwami presented a series of works reimagining her country of... Read More -
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The March issue of ArtReview features a review of Stan Douglas at Victoria Miro
March 10 2020 Nina Power sees double when viewing life from the consummate filmmaker's perspective For many today, the world seems backward. The... Read More
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Studio International reviews Hedda Sterne at Victoria Miro Mayfair
March 2 2020 Long-known as ‘the only female at the birth of abstract expressionism’, Romanian-born Sterne always denied being an abstract painter, and... Read More -
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Aesthetica reviews Stan Douglas’ Doppelgänger and Scenes from the Blackout
February 19 2020 Stan Douglas’ (b. 1960) video installation Doppelgänger is rife with motifs of mirrors, binaries, parallels and doubles, diving into concepts... Read More -
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★★★★★ Laura Cumming reviews Hedda Sterne in The Observer
February 2 2020 Hedda Sterne (1910-2011) is a magnificent heroine of art. She died in New York at the age of 100, almost... Read More
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Frieze reviews Slow Painting at Leeds Art Gallery, featuring Varda Caivano
December 16 2019 All attention is an act of devotion, and patience is the pleasure of this touring exhibition of contemporary paintings. By... Read More -
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Martin Gayford writes about Celia Paul in The Spectator
December 12 2019 Celia Paul is a living painter who is just, at the age of 60, beginning to get the attention she... Read More -
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Frieze reviews Celia Paul: Self-Portrait
November 26 2019 In the artist’s frank new memoir, her turbulent decade-long relationship with Lucian Freud is one trial of many to be... Read More
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Book of the week: The Guardian reviews Celia Paul’s Self-Portrait
November 20 2019 The artist Celia Paul, increasingly frustrated by frequent mentions of her turbulent relationship in books and articles, decided to tell... Read More -
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Time Out reviews Celia Paul
November 19 2019 ★★★★ When you think of Celia Paul, you think of blue. Which isn’t entirely fair. Her paintings aren’t predominantly blue,... Read More -
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The Brooklyn Rail writes about Wangechi Mutu’s Met Façade Commission
October 11 2019 New York real estate is a rare and pricey commodity. Even in a space as big as the Metropolitan Museum... Read More
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Frieze reviews Elmgreen & Dragset: Sculptures at Nasher Sculpture Center
October 3 2019 Elmgreen & Dragset Hold up a Queer Mirror to the Art World The sculptures of artist-collaborators and former lovers Michael... Read More -
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Nancy Durrant reviews Grayson Perry: Julie Cope’s Grand Tour in The Times
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Frieze reviews Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance
August 20 2019 How the artist’s work expressed the feeling of being silenced, by Zoe Pilger In 1973, Paula Rego began seeing a... Read More
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Elephant writes about Milton Avery: The Late Portraits
August 2 2019 The American artist’s late paintings of intimate domestic scenes presciently reflect our current zeitgeist, at a time when detailed visual... Read More -
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Kunstbulletin reviews Stephen Willats: Languages of Dissent at Migros Museum
July 31 2019 Writing about the artist's major survey at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst , Zürich (on view until 18 August 2019), Kunstbulletin... Read More
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Waldemar Januszczak includes Victoria Miro’s summer group show in his Sunday Times Culture review
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Adrian Searle reviews Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance
June 12 2019 Rego travels from brutal satire to figures so real you feel you know them in an unmissable, lifetime-spanning survey Portuguese... Read More -
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Contemporary Art Society Director Caroline Douglas writes about Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement
June 7 2019 The debut of a new film installation by Isaac Julien is an event, and this new nine-screen work showing in... Read More
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The Financial Times reviews the Whitney Biennial, featuring Wangechi Mutu
June 5 2019 Wangechi Mutu’s seductive and cryptic “Sentinels” draw themes from a lifetime of collages and translate them into three dimensions. Her... Read More -
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Jason Farago writes about Stan Douglas’ Doppelgänger in The New York Times
May 20 2019 'Saving the day is the terrifically smart Canadian artist Stan Douglas, whose video installation “Doppelgänger” uses two projectors, on either... Read More -
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Artforum reviews Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass
May 6 2019 ‘Set in Rochester, the video spectacularly recasts Douglass as a homegrown internationalist.’ Read More
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Waldemar Januszczak reviews Chantal Joffe in The Sunday Times
April 28 2019 '… there is something almost Manet-like in her ability to capture subtle and nuanced effects with brushstrokes 2in wide' Read More -
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Sue Hubbard reviews Chantal Joffe in Artlyst
April 27 2019 'She charts the process of living and ageing, tracing the difficulties, disappointments and small victories it throws up like a series of maps on the landscape of the faces she paints.' Read More -
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The Art Newspaper recommends NS Harsha’s new exhibition
April 12 2019 Monkeys have whimsically clambered up a scaffold-like structure at the Victoria Miro gallery on Wharf Road. They represent characters from... Read More
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Artforum, Dezeen, Designboom and The Spaces feature Doug Aitken’s Mirage Gstaad
February 4 2019 Mirage Gstaad, a new outdoor site specific sculpture by Aitken, will remain on view in the Swiss Alps over the... Read More -
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This is tomorrow reviews Ilse D’Hollander
December 14 2018 ‘D’Hollander’s ability to tread the tightrope between the Flemish scenery and her own world of emotion and spirit, establishes her place in the canon of abstract painters beside Piet Mondrian and Nicolas de Staël, and even Mark Rothko’s stained fields of colour.’ Read More
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Wallpaper* features Conrad Shawcross: Psychogeometries
December 12 2018 Engineer, philosopher, roboticist: inside the fine-tuned mind of Conrad Shawcross. By Elly Parsons From halcyon days spent in the London... Read More -
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Frieze reviews Ilse D’Hollander
December 10 2018 ‘As her first London solo show affirms, they are controlled exercises in mystery, which, though created at speed and in retiring shades, demand our time and scrutiny.’ Read More -
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Read Laura Cumming’s review of Ilse D’Hollander in The Observer
November 18 2018 ‘Small, calm and balanced, these landscapes are exceptionally beautiful.’ Read More
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Jackie Wullschlager features Ilse D’Hollander in the FT Critics’ Choice
November 10 2018 ‘… spare, still, subtle, small-scale but rhapsodic compositions, flitting between abstraction and evocations of the Flemish countryside…’ Read More -
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Press for Idris Khan: 21 Stones, the British Museum’s first site-specific artwork
October 17 2018 The work forms part of the new Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World (from 18 October 2018). Khan’s 21... Read More -
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Frieze writes about Do Ho Suh: Bridging Home, London
October 10 2018 How Artists Reveal the Emotion Hidden in Our Cities. By Alice Bucknell When was the last time you cried over... Read More
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The Guardian reviews Conrad Shawcross: After the Explosion, Before the Collapse
September 14 2018 ★★★★ By Jonathan Jones can’t remember the last time an artist explained a body of work to me by referring... Read More -
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Time Out reviews Sarah Sze: Afterimage
June 28 2018 ★★★★ Afterimages are the ghostly pictures that float in front of a person’s eyes after they’ve stopped looking at the... Read More -
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Nick Compton writes about Sarah Sze: Afterimage in Wallpaper*
June 14 2018 The American sculptor Sarah Sze creates fractured things, exploding or imploding or perhaps both. Her works, built of everyday debris... Read More
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Rachel Spence reviews Chantal Joffe: Personal Feeling Is The Main Thing in the Financial Times
May 29 2018 A sumptuous show at the Lowry in Salford pairs works by two artists depicting female experience. Long before #MeToo,... Read More -
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Surface Work is Time Out’s Show of the Week
April 24 2018 ★★★★ By Eddy Frankel The history of art is full of old dead white blokes. We’ve had centuries of western... Read More -
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Louisa Buck reviews Surface Work in The Telegraph
April 20 2018 Move over, Malevich! Shift up, Mondrian! Roll over, Rothko! The central role of women in the development of abstract art... Read More
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Laura Cumming reviews Surface Work in The Observer
April 15 2018 ★★★★★ This magnificent, century-spanning survey of abstract painting, all of it by women, many of whom are unknown, is as... Read More -
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Caroline Douglas, Director of the Contemporary Art Society, writes about Surface Work in her Friday Dispatch
April 13 2018 The openings were crowded in Mayfair and Old Street on Tuesday evening for this dense, two-site exhibition. Including work by... Read More -
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Matthew Collings reviews Surface Work the Evening Standard
April 10 2018 You get used to enjoying paintings not for what they picture but for how they attack the problem of creating... Read More
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Ann Hackett contemplates the relationship between humankind and nature in María Berrío’s collages
March 13 2018 Living with the Land: Maria Berrio in Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp Girls replace their arms with... Read More -
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Tim Adams selects Celia Paul’s Painter and Model as one of his highlights of All Too Human at Tate Britain
March 4 2018 Taught by Lucian Freud at the Slade, and for a time his muse and lover, Celia Paul made this self-portrait... Read More -
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Frieze reviews Prospect.4, New Orleans, featuring Njideka Akunyili Crosby
January 26 2018 Upstairs, in Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s painting I Still Face You (2015), a poised woman in a yellow dress leans against... Read More
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Candid Magazine reviews Jules de Balincourt: They Cast Long Shadows
January 25 2018 By Claire Philips “You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming?” (- J.M.... Read More -
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Artforum reviews Stan Douglas at Victoria Miro Mayfair
December 12 2017 By Duncan Wooldridge The digital image file can be an object of a newly assembled and complex truth, an artifact... Read More -
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SF Weekly reviews Isaac Julien: Playtime
December 6 2017 SFAI's debut show at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture contains three outstanding film installations. By Peter Lawrence Kane... Read More
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The San Francisco Chronicle reviews Isaac Julien: Playtime at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
December 1 2017 By Charles Desmarais For those of us who were around to see the first video works presented in art museum... Read More -
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Frieze reviews Tal R: Academy of Tal R at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
November 15 2017 By Harry Thorne A mint-green boy lingers on a river’s lip with a bottle of milk. A rose-pink woman bends... Read More -
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Roberta Smith reviews Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life in the New York Times
November 3 2017 The artist of “Infinity” rooms has become an Instagram darling. But two new gallery exhibitions in New York show that... Read More
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Louisa Buck reviews Tal R: Sexshops
November 2 2017 While the subject matter is provocative, there’s nothing obviously titillating about Tal R’s “Sexshops” paintings, on show at Victoria Miro... Read More -
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Time Out reviews Stan Douglas at Victoria Miro Mayfair
November 1 2017 By Chris Waywell Canadian photographer Stan Douglas is showing just two new works at Victoria Miro, but they’re huge: giant... Read More -
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Studio International reviews Idris Khan: Absorbing Light
October 30 2017 Reflections on the horrors of one of Syria’s most famous prisons have driven Idris Khan to new forms of expression,... Read More
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The Evening Standard recommends Idris Khan: Absorbing Light in the London Art Gallery Guide
October 17 2017 By Jessie Thompson What’s the show? Absorbing Light marks an important departure for Idris Khan, who is showing works in... Read More -
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Jackie Wullschlager reviews Être Moderne: Le MoMA à Paris, featuring Yayoi Kusama, in the Financial Times
October 11 2017 'Rarely loaned MoMA treasures on show in Paris reveal a provocative American identity.' Read More -
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Nick Compton writes about Idris Khan: Absorbing Light in Wallpaper*
October 4 2017 Idris Khan has built his reputation in multiple layers. He repeatedly scrawls or stacks images, creating hypnotic haunting palimpsests, buzzing... Read More
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Mousse Magazine reviews Tal R: Sexshops
October 1 2017 By Nicholas Hatfull Hopping out of a black cab, a Hamley’s bag in each hand, a raspberry-corduroyed Tal R was... Read More -
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Hyperallergic reviews Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Predecessors at Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
September 26 2017 Paintings That Manage to Focus Our Divided Attentions. By Sarah Rose Sharp We are saturated by media messaging. It stands... Read More -
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Frieze reviews Hernan Bas: Cambridge Living
September 15 2017 By Harriet Baker When the Detroit-based artist Hernan Bas arrived at Jesus College, Cambridge, for a period of research in... Read More
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Hernan Bas: Cambridge Living reviewed in Time Out
September 15 2017 By Eddy Frankel Back before the war, a bunch of Cambridge students would climb up the city’s ancient buildings, sneak... Read More -
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Jenny Uglow reviews Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! for The New York Review of Books
September 6 2017 By Jenny Uglow The Outside-In Art of Grayson Perry Facing you as you walk into Grayson Perry’s show at Serpentine... Read More
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