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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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Hundreds Storm British Museum to Protest Fossil Fuel Sponsorship

by Naomi Polonsky April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

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

Posted inBooks

The Forgotten Story of Modern Art’s Great Jewish Collectors

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

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

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

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.”

Posted inArt

Jennifer Packer’s Lucid Tributes to Black Life

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

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

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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28 Years of Miranda July, Master of Self-Fashioning

by Naomi Polonsky May 18, 2020May 18, 2020

Titled simply Miranda July, Prestel’s excellent new “mid-career retrospective” of the artist highlights July’s enduring interest in the very darkest aspects of human existence.

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The Life of Clyfford Still, the Most “Irascible” Abstract Expressionist

by Naomi Polonsky March 12, 2020March 12, 2020

The documentary Lifeline recounts Still’s life, career, and legacy — and how they were shaped by his cantankerous temperament.

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The Untamed Jungles of Vivian Suter’s Abstract Paintings

by Naomi Polonsky February 17, 2020February 14, 2020

While the ecological aspect of Suter’s work is particularly timely, her obvious enjoyment of pure color and form makes her artworks all the more enduring.

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Anti-Oil Activists Stage Largest Protest Yet at British Museum, With Trojan Horse in Tow

by Naomi Polonsky February 10, 2020

Hundreds of activists occupied the British Museum for a protest lasting over two days straight, coinciding with the BP-sponsored exhibition Troy: Myth and Reality.

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