Author: jaywp
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Charles Holden’s Master Plan: Building the Bloomsbury Campus* and Warburg Models: The Architecture of the Itinerant Archive**
Spanning master plans and covert models, these two exhibitions conjure up a point in the early 1930s when flows of international modernism infiltrated the British academic and political establishment
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Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads
Repeatedly drawing the same sitters from among his circle of close friends, Auerbach conveys his subjects with truth, tenderness and empathy, getting to the very heart of them
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Jacqueline Poncelet: In the Making
After years of resistance, Poncelet has facilitated a full retrospective of 50 years of her work. Her inventiveness, material eclecticism and chromatic intelligence make her very much an artist for these times
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When Forms Come Alive
The Hayward Gallery’s spring exhibition is an effervescent playground of kinetically inclined sculpture that captures the drifting, mushrooming and vibrating movements of the natural world
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Paolozzi at 100
This show celebrating the centenary of the local artist who became internationally famous includes more than 60 works from his long career, along with a recreation of his studio
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Emily Kam Kngwarray
This major new show pays homage to Kngwarray, an Indigenous Australian who, though she only began painting in her later years, produced a prodigious amount of work and became internationally acclaimed
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A History of Women in 101 Objects: A Walk Through Female History – book review
A suffragette’s medal, a 16th-century dildo and a hatpin are just some of the fascinating items that Annabelle Hirsch uses to take us on a spin through female history
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Judith Godwin: Expressions of Life
Although associated with abstract expressionism, Godwin strove for a more nuanced approach than her male counterparts, and her later works are influenced by her interest in Zen Buddhism and nature
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Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran – interview: ‘Part of creating the work is to explore those lines between ambiguity and familiarity’
A melange of multilimbed, fertility, guardian, protector and warrior figures animate Glasgow’s Tramway in an ambitious installation for the Sri Lankan-born, Australian artist in his first UK solo show
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Art Without Frontiers: The Story of the British Council, Visual Arts, and a Changing World – book review
This is a fascinating account of the personalities, events and contexts that have shaped an organisation founded 90 years ago to enhance international cultural relations, an organisation whose work is as important today as it was in 1934
