Archive
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Banu Cennetoğlu: The List
Istanbul-based artist Banu Cennetoğlu talks about the List, a documentation of refugees known to have died trying to reach Europe, now on show at the Liverpool Biennial, her recent film at the Chisenhale that spanned more than 128 hours, and…
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Loie Hollowell – interview
Loie Hollowell talks about her latest exhibition at Pace Gallery, London, her first solo show in the UK, and how trying for a baby has influenced her work
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Jutta Koether: Tour de Madame
In Munich, the most significant retrospective of the German artist to date, shows her paintings from the last four decades, including rarely seen early works, and an epic new cycle
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In Pursuit of Elusive Horizons
This tightly focused group exhibition explores the human impact on our environment
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Lily Lanfermeijer: Lost in Depiction
The Dutch sculptor Lily Lanfermeijer discusses tableware, colonial histories and the passing of patterns between continents
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Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up
This exhibition offers a lesson in why you shouldn’t feed popular morbid curiosity at the expense of respect for the person behind the legend. Nevertheless, Frida Kahlo’s paintings still shine out from amid the costumes, prosthetics and pill packets
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Aaditi Joshi: ‘I want to be closer to plastic and express its beautiful side’
You may view plastic as rubbish, but for Mumbai artist Aaditi Joshi it is ‘as precious as a gem’. She even covers her body in it to make art. Here, she talks about why she chose it as her medium…
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Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt
As the V&A this week opens an exhibition that celebrates groundbreaking innovations in video game design, its curator, Marie Foulston, discusses the medium’s radical development over the past 20 years, and why now is the right time for a show…
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Liverpool Biennial 2018
The 10th edition of Britain’s largest contemporary art festival explores oppressive structures, endangered histories and a world in constant flux
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Frida Escobedo’s Serpentine Pavilion
With walls made of stacked concrete roof tiles and a welcoming sequence of interior spaces, Mexico’s Frida Escobedo has created an easily replicable, accessible and enchanting structure for the 18th Serpentine Pavilion commission
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Make Me Look Beautiful, Madame D’Ora
The Leopold’s breathtaking retrospective of pioneering Viennese photographer Dora Kallmus’s work provides a glorious, if melancholic, perspective on the turbulent times in which she lived
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Gustav Klimt: Artist of the Century and Egon Schiele: The Jubilee Show
The Leopold Museum in Vienna celebrates the work of two of its greatest painters, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, with concurrent exhibitions that underline their enduring relevance
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Mary Kuper: ‘Where you have greater language diversity in the world, you also have greater biodiversity’
The artist and illustrator talks about her current exhibition, Language Shift, the Endangered Poetry Project, her etymological alphabet, and why each language is so important to its culture
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Bonalumi 1958-2013
The first retrospective of Bonalumi’s sculptural exploration of canvas, colour and material since his death is nothing if not comprehensive, consolidating his place within Italy’s postwar avant garde and the influence he has exerted on subsequent artists and architects
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Tamsyn Challenger: Free the Pussy!
The artist-curator Tamsyn Challenger talks about Free the Pussy!, the exhibition she has curated to showcase works made in response to Pussy Riot’s arrest in 2012, and the more general need for women to speak out, take control and reclaim…
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Line & Color: The Nature of Ellsworth Kelly, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
This exhibition of Kelly’s work seeks to cut to the core of his practice, primarily through two sets of extraordinary lithographs from the mid-1960s, and traces a compelling link between his figurative and abstract work
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Magic Realism: Art In Weimar Germany 1919-33
Tate Modern’s exhibition on magic realism brings together the works of troubled minds from turbulent times
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Simon English: Smile Please
The London-based artist Simon English talks about chance, addiction and the wilful act of drawing
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Rajyashri Goody: Eat With Great Delight
Goody, herself of Dalit heritage, talks about discrimination in India against the Dalits and how, in her first solo exhibition, she is using photographs of her family and turning Dalit literature into recipes, to highlight the significant and complex relationship…
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Alison Wilding and Florence Peake in conversation
With Wilding’s show Right Here and Out There and Peake’s RITE on concurrently at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, the artists talk about their practice
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Christopher Williams: Normative Models
In this exhibition, which includes seven photographs and several blank walls, the US photographer investigates systems of meaning and classification
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Tamara Henderson – interview: ‘You could say the maquettes were the hypnotherapy I did at Gatwick airport’
Tamara Henderson discusses the transmigration of the soul, the transformative properties of clay, and using art as a way of mourning
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Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection
Stirring and challenging, this frontal look at ecstasy revels in desire as it pits the age-old tradition of nude models against our #MeToo moment
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Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta
Mud, blood, fire and water: a touring exhibition of the Cuban American artist affirms her continuing relevance while revealing her formidable skill as a film-maker
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