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Cézanne Saw the Nobility of an Apple

by Michael Glover February 2, 2023February 7, 2023

The French painter felt he had to rise to the challenge of one question above all things else: What exactly is it to be a modern artist?

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Soheila Sokhanvari Honors Iran’s Feminist Rebels

Avatar photo by Naomi Polonsky February 1, 2023February 2, 2023

Born in Shiraz, Sokhanvari fled Iran as a child a year before the Revolution and has devoted her artistic practice to the country she left behind.

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Guglielmo Castelli the Melancholic Painter

Avatar photo by Francesco Dama January 11, 2023January 12, 2023

The Italian artist speaks with Hyperallergic about his home city of Turin, the loneliness of his characters, and more.   

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How Great Was Lucian Freud, Really?

by Michael Glover January 9, 2023January 9, 2023

Would it be ridiculous to suggest that Freud lacks nobility or generosity, or even that his pessimism reduces him?

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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 Pleasures and Pain of Carolee Schneemann’s Body Politics

Avatar photo by Anna Souter December 19, 2022December 19, 2022

Schneemann’s art actions laid bare the continuity between the female body, feminist writing, and sociopolitical acts of protest.

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Only 8% of UK Artists Come From Working-Class Background 

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie December 14, 2022December 14, 2022

A new study making waves in the UK finds that people from low-income backgrounds are less likely to become artists — but that’s always been the case.

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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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Adrian Ghenie and the Soup of Fame

by Michael Glover November 28, 2022November 29, 2022

Ghenie’s paintings of Marilyn Monroe are a relentless representation of a howling, turbulent tragedy, a face broken into crude sideways slewings and gougings and gorgings of paint.

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Carnival and Colonialism Converge in Hew Locke’s The Procession

Avatar photo by Aditya Iyer November 7, 2022November 7, 2022

Locke’s stunning, sensuous spectacle of pattern and color, just like the grand tradition of Caribbean carnivals, hints at sinister elements that undergird the whole endeavor.

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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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