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Naomi Polonsky

Naomi Polonsky is a London-based curator, art critic, and translator. She studied at the University of Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art and has experience working at the Hermitage Museum and Tate Modern. She has written for the Times Literary Supplement and The Calvert Journal. Follow her on Twitter @NaomiPolonsky

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What Freedom Looks Like for Incarcerated Artists

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky December 6, 2022December 7, 2022

Koestler Arts works with incarcerated people and patients in secure mental health units, aiming to improve their lives through creativity.

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A Joyous Carnival to Celebrate David Graeber’s Lasting Legacy

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky October 31, 2022October 31, 2022

Artists gathered for the launch of the new David Graeber Institute, which will oversee the scholar’s archive of unpublished texts and pursue projects around climate change, debt, labor, and war.

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Why Do Artists Keep Painting “The Women in the Window”?

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky August 21, 2022August 22, 2022

The exhibition Reframed: The Woman in the Window explores the acts of looking and being looked at, framing, and art making.

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Protesters Urge British Museum to Return the Parthenon Marbles

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky June 21, 2022June 21, 2022

In an action at the museum this weekend, participants made impassioned speeches calling for the return of the sculptures and sang “Happy Birthday” to the Acropolis Museum.

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Hundreds Storm British Museum to Protest Fossil Fuel Sponsorship

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

The daylong demonstration culminated in a mass action and occupation of the museum after hours.

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The Forgotten Story of Modern Art’s Great Jewish Collectors

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky January 18, 2022January 18, 2022

Charles Dellheim’s study tells the tale of a small group of Jewish art dealers and collectors who played a key role in the changing art world of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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The Restless Spirit of Lubaina Himid

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky January 4, 2022January 4, 2022

Lubaina Himid’s Tate exhibition is a conversation, a rhetorical question, an experiment. Like opera, from which it draws its inspiration, it aims to be “a total work of art.”

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Jean Dubuffet’s Highs and (Controversial) Lows

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky July 15, 2021July 16, 2021

Curiously, Dubuffet’s anti-hierarchical approach to art did not translate to similar views on society.

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Climate Activists Occupy London’s Science Museum to Protest Shell Sponsorship

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky June 21, 2021June 21, 2021

During the two-day protests, activists explained that they “won’t stand by and let the Science Museum green-wash Shell’s reputation.”

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Jennifer Packer’s Lucid Tributes to Black Life

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky May 19, 2021May 19, 2021

In Packer’s canvases, swathes of abstraction express aspects of human experience that lie beyond representation.

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A Beguiling Look at the Biases of AI

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky September 25, 2020November 5, 2020

With Bloom, Trevor Paglen collapses distinctions between the real and virtual, laying bare the prejudices embedded in supposedly objective artificial intelligence systems.

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Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Skillfully Flips the Script of Art History

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky September 17, 2020February 10, 2022

In A Countervailing Theory, her current exhibition at the Barbican Centre, Ojih Odutola’s alternative histories take on a more epic, mythic scale.

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