Archive
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Inside Other Spaces. Environments By Women Artists 1956-1976
Many of the pioneers in environmental art were women, but their works were often ephemeral, destroyed once a show was over. Here, the curators have painstakingly recreated some of those works, putting their artists firmly back in the spotlight
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Lisetta Carmi: Identities
Motivated by a profoundly humanistic spirit, Lisetta Carmi photographed marginalised communities. One year after her death, the Estorick Collection’s exhibition introduces the UK audience to her images of great strength and tender fragility
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40th EVA International, 2023
Ireland’s biennial is this year based on the concept of gleaning, when unused crops are divided among these in need, and across the city of Limerick artistic offerings abound with positivity and collectivism
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Ave Libertatemaveamor – interview: ‘Contemplating the actions of the Russians helps me to be more sensitive to infernal images’
The Ukrainian artist who goes by the name of Ave Libertatemaveamor talks about life in her country since the Russian invasion, the mural she worked on with George Gittoes for the rebuilt House of Culture in Irpin, and why drawing…
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Catherine Opie – interview: ‘I am in love with the medium of photography and the aesthetic pursuits of what I can do within it’
The photographer, known for her portraits of west-coast queer culture in the 1990s, today turns her camera to making portraits of architecture and cities, including the Vatican
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Bernard Cohen: Things Seen
An exhibition of recent works by the veteran British painter draws on medieval stained glass, Velázquez, nature and the process of painting
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Kaye Donachie – interview: ‘My portraits are spectres, images conjured through art and writing’
Donachie, whose first UK solo institutional exhibition is now at Pallant House Gallery, reflects on her cast of reimagined muses, the influence of poetry and cinema on her imagery and the ongoing conversation between her paintings
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Leiko Ikemura: When Animals Become Art
In an institution like no other, the Japanese-Swiss artist’s works are juxtaposed with her stuffed animal collection to create a lively menagerie
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Michael Rakowitz: The Waiting Gardens of the North
Rakowitz has recreated the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in the form of a sculptural relief and a living garden of plants and herbs, collaborating with local people with experience of displacement
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Pam Evelyn – interview: ‘Now I’m realising that these existential collapses with the painting are actually necessary’
In her studio in Dalston, east London, Pam Evelyn talks about the push and pull of making one of her large-scale abstract paintings and learning to live with its contradictions and tensions
