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Searching for Warhol’s “Cum”
Welcome to Alchemy, in which artists with famous names mix strange substances together with outcomes of variable interest.
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Just Don’t Tell Me the Artist Was “Influenced by Music”
Two London shows highlight the influences of music and architecture on sculptor Anthony Caro’s work. The latter is more successful than the former.
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A Crowd-Pleasing Party of Post-Impressionists
Here they are at the National Gallery, almost all at once, all those modern artists we came here to see, those we have come here to report having seen later.
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Diary of a British Town
The tales in the Thamesmead Codex are melded, mashed up, meshed together fragments of the many human stories told to artist Bob and Roberta Smith.
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In Celebration of Unloveliness
We go to Raphael for idealized beauty. But what if a painting were the opposite of beautiful, and utterly arresting for that very reason?
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Museum to Exhibit Its Impressive Collection of … Fakes?
Art and Artifice at the Courtauld Gallery in London will include 30 artworks once mistaken as originals by Sandro Botticelli, Auguste Rodin, and others
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Goya's Coded Love Letter to the Duchess of Alba
Goya neatly clothes himself in his own world of fantasy: He will have her in the end. In life, where the climate is much chillier, it was, alas, to be otherwise.
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An Introduction to “Afrogallonism”
Serge Attukwei Clottey explores Ghanaian culture and identity through discarded jerrycans and other found materials.
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What Does Peter Doig Have to Do With the Impressionists?
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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Things Go Wayward at the Hayward
The doomster title of Extinction Beckons at London’s Hayward Gallery had really got me going. Then, almost immediately, things started to go wrong.
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Artists Consider the Concept of Care
Artists such as Leah Clements, Christine Sun Kim, and Jamila Prowse exercise care as responsibility, access, and inclusivity, and fostering a critical dialogue with others.
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A Women’s History of Global Abstraction
Action, Gesture, Paint is a pointed challenge to the common definition of Abstract Expressionism: White, male, American artists.