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Olivia McEwan

London based Olivia McEwan is a trained art historian with BA and MA degrees from the Courtauld Institute, now a freelance writer focusing on the London art world; this academic background contributing to a writing style that — positive or negative — is argued with crucial fairness and balance. Combined with curatorial awareness, she is also a practising painter of predominantly figurative work, lending a keen eye and understanding of painterly technique which powerfully informs her criticisms of historical and emerging arts.

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What Does Peter Doig Have to Do With the Impressionists?

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan March 15, 2023March 15, 2023

A new exhibition at London’s Courtauld Gallery pits Doig against artists like Cézanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh. Does it work?

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A Women’s History of Global Abstraction

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan March 7, 2023March 8, 2023

Action, Gesture, Paint is a pointed challenge to the common definition of Abstract Expressionism: White, male, American artists.

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A Dazzling and Troubling Display of Spanish Expansion

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan February 13, 2023February 13, 2023

While acknowledging the horrors of colonialism, Spain and the Hispanic World also highlights the exchange of traditions and ideas.

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The Wondrously Defiant Art of Contemporary Ceramics

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan January 5, 2023January 5, 2023

Strange Clay at the Hayward Gallery demonstrates the conceptual and technical innovation of contemporary ceramics with riotously joyful art.

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The Private Passions of Henry Fuseli

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan December 29, 2022December 29, 2022

Fuseli and the Modern Woman is immensely pleasurable for the technical facility of an artist pursuing his own personal interests in an incredibly idiosyncratic style.

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The V&A Wanted to Subvert Toxic Masculinity but Ended Up Reinforcing It

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan October 23, 2022October 21, 2022

The exhibition Fashioning Masculinities lets men have their cake and eat it too.

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How Disney Animation Provides a Gateway to Understanding Rococo

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan October 2, 2022October 3, 2022

So closely do Disney’s animators assimilate the sensibility of French design that on occasion their source material appears almost more Disney than Disney itself.

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A Missed Opportunity to Bring an Eccentric Museum to Life With VR

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan September 18, 2022September 16, 2022

In Space Popular’s presentation at the Sir John Soane’s Museum the VR content does not complement the physical, but widens the gulf between art history and contemporary art making.

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A Show Traces Philip Guston’s Impact on Contemporary Artists

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan August 7, 2022August 5, 2022

A Thing for the Mind takes Philip Guston’s 1978 painting “Story” as a starting point to examine the myriad ways in which this piece has filtered into the work of other painters.

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Searching for Healing in Postwar Art

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan June 21, 2022June 21, 2022

An exhibition at the Barbican in London asks: How do you make sense of war’s senseless destruction and loss of human life?

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A Thrilling Discovery of the Only Known Work by Female Renaissance Artist Caterina Angela Pierozzi 

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan June 8, 2022June 9, 2022

Depicting the busts of Gabriel and the Virgin, “The Annunciation” (1677) may be the ultimate lost artwork, or “sleeper.”

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When a Contemporary Art Gallery Exhibits a Renaissance Artist

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan May 15, 2022May 13, 2022

Ikon Gallery’s retrospective asserts that Carlo Crivelli’s self-reflexiveness and questioning the nature of the image made him anticipate the “contemporary.”

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