Archive
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Nora Aurrekoetxea – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios
Nora Aurrekoetxea focuses on her home in Amsterdam, disorienting domestic architecture to ask us to contemplate the way it shapes us and ingrains itself in our bodies and psychology
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Kiki Smith – interview: ‘Artists are always trying to reveal themselves and remain hidden at the same time’
Known for her tapestries, body parts and folkloric motifs, Kiki Smith talks about meaning, process, and why it’s important that a work should have enough in it to take care of itself
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Frank Auerbach
Britain’s greatest postwar painter has a belated German homecoming, which captures the remarkable presence of his work
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How Painting Happens (and why it matters) – book review
Martin Gayford’s engrossing book is a goldmine of quotes, anecdotes and insights, from why Van Gogh painted on tea towels to why some artists find it hard to start a work and others don’t know when to stop
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Jonathan Baldock – interview: ‘Weird is a word that’s often used to describe me. I like the use of that word, I’m reclaiming it and giving it power’
As a Noah’s ark of his non-binary stuffed toys goes on show at Jupiter Artland, the artist talks about growing up gay in the 1980s, being working-class in the elite art world, and why experiencing art in person, in galleries…
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Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures
Helen Chadwick’s unwillingness to accept any binary division of the world allowed her to radically explore the mechanisms of the body – physically, emotionally, sensually, sexually and sensorially
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Catharsis: A Grief Drawn Out – book review
To what extent can the visual language of grief be translated? Janet McKenzie looks back over 20 years’ worth of drawings in search of words
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Dame Jillian Sackler obituary
The art lover and philanthropist has died aged 84
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Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991
With more than 100 works by 50 artists, this show examines the pioneering role of women in computer art, looking at how our visual perceptions have evolved, the technological impacts on art and contrasts in artistic methods
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Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots
With numerous works created with the twigs, leaves, roots, branches and majestic forms of trees, this retrospective captures the Italian artist’s arboreal obsession over five decades
