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Comment | Tate Britain's Turner and Constable show got me thinking about Marxist art history
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (319+ words) Diary of an art historian is a monthly blog by the British art historian, writer and broadcaster Bendor Grosvenor discussing the pressing issues facing the arts today I hesitated about going to London to see the Old Master sales. A…...
Defiant women and daring paintings: Emin, Webster and Wylie create a buzz in the UK's exhibition calendar
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (695+ words) The Art Newspaper Defiant women and daring paintings: Emin, Webster and Wylie create a buzz in the UK's exhibition calendar Solo shows of strong women artists provide inspiration in gloomy times While it has felt like everything else is going…...
The sharp perception only a woman can bring to observing other women: Dorothy Bohms photographs go on show at Lee Millers former home
2+ week, 3+ day ago (119+ words) The Art Newspaper The exhibition at the UKs Farleys House & Gallery brings together female-focused works by Bohm, who also helped get Millers work back into the spotlight Dorothy Bohm at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in 1969 " Dorothy Bohm: About…...
As an artist I have a duty to reflect the times: photographer Misan Harriman explores protests and solidarity in new London show
3+ week, 1+ day ago (162+ words) A Black Lives Matter protest depicted as part of Misan Harriman's The Purpose of Light Misan Harriman's permanent exhibition at Hope 93 Courtesy of the artist Quoting Nina Simone, Harriman says he feels he has a duty as an artist "to…...
British artist Simon Fujiwara's new Luxembourg exhibition tackles Guernica, syphilis and the death of a Japanese pornstar
3+ week, 5+ day ago (159+ words) In the show Fujiwara, who is known for his provocative and probing practice, also describes his experience of contracting syphilis while another installation commemorates the Japanese gay porn star Koh Masaki who died in 2013 aged 29. In the works that reference…...
London exhibition celebrates Konrad M'gi, Estonia's mystic Modern master
3+ week, 5+ day ago (254+ words) Landscapes, such as Lake Kasaritsa (1916-17), anchor the Konrad M'gi exhibition Courtesy of the Art Museum of Estonia The first UK exhibition to be dedicated to Estonia's pioneering Modernist painter Konrad M'gi (1878-1925) opens at Dulwich Picture Gallery this month. Distinguished by…...
Comment | Beryl Cook UK retrospective shows there is much more to the artist than amazing bums
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (802+ words) The Art Newspaper Comment | Beryl Cook UK retrospective shows there is much more to the artist than amazing bums The artist was as much an explorer of gender, class and body image as of saucy pleasure Beryl Cook's Window Dresser…...
He always had spirituality: Spanish exhibition unpicks Picasso's religious influences
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (283+ words) Pablo Picasso, Mother with Dead Child (II). Postscript to "Guernica, (1937) Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof'a Picasso: Biblical Roots, on display from 3 March to 29 June, brings together 44 works, is the first-ever show of the artist's work in a cathedral, and…...
A Francis Bacon self-portrait and a Surrealist avian painting: our pick of the March auctions
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (97+ words) Ren" Magritte, Les gr'ces naturelles (around 1961) Courtesy of Christie's Osman Hamdi Bey, Cami Kapisinda (At the Mosque Door) (1891) Courtesy of Bonhams Vilhelm Hammersh'i, Interior of Woman Placing Branches in Vase on Table (1900) Courtesy of Phillips The artist's trademark motifs make…...
Sophie Calle explores the stories we tell ourselves
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (112+ words) The stories we tell ourselves: Sophie Calle at the Orange County Museum of Art'The Art Newspaper Sophie Calle explores the stories we tell ourselves The artist's first major North American survey gathers five decades of work, mining the unstable border…...