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Dora Maar, Tate Modern review - how women disappearWednesday, 27 November 2019
In one of Dora Maar’s best known images, a fashion photograph from 1935 (pictured below), a woman wearing a backless, sparkly evening gown appears to be making her way backstage through a proscenium’s drapes. The star of the show exits the limelight... Read more... |
Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?, Jewish Museum London review - rallying against deathFriday, 15 November 2019
For a loved one to die by suicide provokes both pain and hurt. Pain, because they are gone. Hurt, because it can feel like an indictment or a betrayal. For Charlotte Salomon, the suicides that ripped holes in her family were also foreshadowings... Read more... |
The Best Exhibitions in LondonTuesday, 29 October 2019
Bridget Riley, Hayward Gallery ★★★★ A comprehensive celebration of the artist's 70-year career. Until 26 JanGeorge Stubbs: 'all done from Nature', MK Gallery ★★★★ A glorious menagerie. Until 26 JanHogarth: Place and Progress, Sir John Soane’s... Read more... |
George Stubbs: 'all done from Nature', MK Gallery review - a glorious menagerieTuesday, 29 October 2019
Artist George Stubbs liked horses. The MK Gallery’s exhibition “all done from Nature” will try to convince you that he also cared about people. He did, to an extent; the commissions came that way. But about half way through the exhibition, the... Read more... |
Hisham Matar: A Month in Siena review – memories, framedSunday, 20 October 2019
A Month in Siena is a sweet, short mediation on art, grief, and life. Ostensibly describing the time and space of its title, Matar touches on vanishings and lacunae in his past. Early on, he links the disappearance of his father in Cairo in 1990 to... Read more... |
Van Gogh’s Inner Circle, Noordbrabants Museum review - the man behind the artThursday, 26 September 2019
Vincent van Gogh (b. 1853) could be difficult, truculent and unconventional. He battled with mental illness and wrestled with questions of religion throughout his life. But on good form he was personable. He was said to be an excellent imitator with... Read more... |
Peter Doig, Michael Werner review - ambiguous and excellentWednesday, 25 September 2019
There are two moons in Night Bathers, 2019 (pictured below) One is set in the sky, a great soupy plate with a greenish fringe creating an ugly smear of white across the night. The other is a treacherously hazy rectangle, floating like a cloud above... Read more... |
Frank Bowling, Tate Britain review - a marvelWednesday, 05 June 2019
In a photograph taken in 1962, Frank Bowling leans against a fireplace in his studio. His right hand rests on the mantlepiece which bears books, fixative and spirit bottles, his left rests out of sight on the small of his back. His attire is... Read more... |
Natalia Goncharova, Tate Modern review - a prodigious talentWednesday, 05 June 2019
The times they are a-changin’. On show at the Barbican is a retrospective of Lee Krasner’s stunning paintings and, for the first time ever, Tate Modern is hosting two major shows of women artists. At last, the achievements of great women are... Read more... |
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing, The Queen's Gallery review - peerless drawings, rarely seenWednesday, 29 May 2019
It is a commonplace to describe Leonardo as an enigma whose genius, and perhaps even something of his character, is revealed through his works. But as his works survive only in incomplete and fragmented form, it is drawing, the practice common to... Read more... |
Berlin: True Copy, Brighton Festival 2019 review - tricksy forgery masterclassTuesday, 28 May 2019
This brilliantly conceived and executed show is about provenance in art. It’s also about our perceptions of the truth. However, it’s a show where it would be churlish to reveal too much of what goes on. This is, of course, perverse since some will... Read more... |
Anish Kapoor, Lisson Gallery review - naïve vulgarity and otherworldly onyxTuesday, 21 May 2019
There are children screaming in a nearby playground. Their voices rise and fall, swell and drop. Interspersed silences fill with the sound of running, the movement and cacophony orchestrated by a boy who leads on the catch tone. It's simultaneously... Read more... |
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