Archive
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Prydie: The Life and Art of Mabel Pryde Nicholson
Mother, wife, sister and daughter to artists who have eclipsed her deserved fame, this charming exhibition is one big family album, focusing on a woman who, during her lifetime, sought to hide in the shadows
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Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere
A ship floating on the roof, a giant encyclopaedia of neglected people and things, and busts of James Baldwin, Nina Simone and others fill the New York-based Bahamian artist’s fascinating exploration of black history
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Charlie Stiven – interview: ‘You don’t need to be loud to be expressive. Quiet, deep contemplation and response can be hugely effective’
The artist talks about the 3D models in his earlier exhibition, Kiosk, at Summerhall, Edinburgh, including End of the Pier Show, now on permanent display there, and why Brexit has been so bad for Britain and for artists
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Yoshitomo Nara
His children may appear unrealistic and simplistic, but they pulsate with a complexity of emotional pain that exceeds our idea of innocence, as if the kids carry the imprint of the adult world’s woes
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Helen Charman – interview: ‘Young V&A is a very optimistic space. It’s airy, it’s colourful, it’s playful’
The Young V&A has been awarded the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 award. The institution’s director discusses the museum’s creative transformation and its vision to build a community programme for deprived children living along the Thames Estuary
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Take a Breath
At a time when the WHO says pollution is the biggest threat to our existence, this immersive show explores the air we breathe and its geological, cultural and political significance, with work from artists including Isabel Nolan, Ana Mendieta, Marina…
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Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent
For 50 years, Kennard’s activist art has railed against corporate and state power, wars and poverty. And as this exhibition spanning those five decades shows, his outrage has not abated
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Lucía Pizzani – interview: ‘Come on, look at me, I’m here. We both are. We are beings and we are alive’
The London-based Venezuelan artist talks about her commission at Harewood House, her exhibition at Cecilia Brunson Projects and her inclusion in the curated ceramics section Smoke at Frieze London 2024
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Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body
A compelling exhibition turns back the clock to the last Paris Olympics, where art, photography and sport collided like never before and athletics entered the age of celebrity
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Jason Wilsher-Mills – interview: ‘Doing art is like cultural national service’
The life-affirming British artist, whose latest show, curated by Shamita Sharmacharja, is at the Wellcome Collection in London, reflects on illness and disability as catalysts for artistic awakening, the potency of everyday surrealism, and the incalculable importance of family
