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Tag: England
Melancholy in Black and Neon
Mary Weatherford’s new paintings confront us with a sense of place, a remembered moment, a hidden story.
The Silence of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Looking at Yiadom-Boakye’s portraits is an act of slow discovery, the unveiling of a mystery.
Painting “the Eternity of Time”
Tu Hongtao’s paintings revisit the traditions of Chinese painting while evading the perils of oversimplification and stagnation.
What Is Possibly the World’s Longest Exposure Photograph Has Been Discovered Inside a Beer Can
The image depicts 2,953 arced trails of the sun rising and falling during a period of eight years and one month.
J.M.W. Turner, the Modern
A show at Tate Britain underscores Turner as the great recorder of elemental disorder and industrial pollution on the grand scale.
The Crude, Exhilarating, Watery Worlds of Alfred Wallis
Wallis tore up the rule book and pointed a way forward for British painting.
Howard Hodgkin Gushes Forth
Howard Hodgkin: Memories — the first show of any importance since the artist’s death — seems to open him up as never before.
Surrealism’s Unfinished Business
The art of the collagiste is essentially the art of the scavenger, the opportunistic thief.
Cecily Brown Crashes the House of Churchill
What will she make of the fabled greatness of the English past?