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Can “Rubenesque” Be Feminist?
Rubens & Women argues that, far from objectifying his models, the artist depicted a nuanced female body.
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Leon Kossoff’s Battles
Art can be, and often is, a species of combat, a fight to the death.
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Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Time-Traveling Lens
Sugimoto’s photographs remind us of the sacredness of images in a time of image over-saturation.
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What We Lose When Curating Follows the Money
Capturing the Moment pairs works from the private YAGEO Foundation with those from Tate Modern for a show with no named curators or patent purpose.
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How the Impressionists Captured Life on Paper
While painting on canvas often slows life right down, paper works were frequently the stuff of sketchbooks, not necessarily labored over in some studio.
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Women’s Oppression Is the Earth’s Oppression
The work on gender and ecology in RE/SISTERS at the Barbican suggests that it is time to re-examine and re-engage with ecofeminism.
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The Prolific Genius of Frank Walter
The Antiguan artist left behind 6,000 paintings and drawings, 600 sculptures, 2,000 photographs, and 50,000 pages of writings.
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Activists Occupy Tate Modern to Demand Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza
Dozens of artists and cultural workers gathered in the museum’s Turbine Hall to show their solidarity with the Palestinian community.
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The Material Remains of Memory
All of the works in Material as Message ask us how we come to remember, through materials that suit the memories they’re trying to preserve.
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Is Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall a Good Place to Show Art?
From Louise Bourgeois in 2000 to El Anatsui in 2023, countless artists have wrestled with the London exhibition space’s (im)possibilities.
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Marina Abramović, a Shaman of Late Capitalism
Is the Royal Academy’s Marina Abramović retrospective spirituality or its monetization? You toss the coin.
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Ai Weiwei Speaks Out on Cancellation of His London Exhibition
In a statement to Hyperallergic after Lisson Gallery nixed his show, the artist warned of “soft violence aimed at stifling voices” on the topic of the Israel-Palestine conflict.