Art Review
Take a Trip Through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Conjured Worlds
The fantasy and science fiction writer found her way into her invented worlds by making maps and then mentally exploring them.
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Life’s Hidden Dramas in the Art of Walter Sickert
Sickert didn’t go in for glamour or flattery and the subjects of many of his best works are things seen off to the side, a bit inconsequential.
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London’s National Gallery to Open New Wing
The new space will house an “expanded collection,” suggesting possible shifts in the museum’s longstanding focus on art made before 1900.
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A Neo-Impressionism Show for the One Percent
An exhibition shows off the movement’s socialist politics via works a wealthy benefactor unironically chomped up.
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Haunting Shadow of Scrubbed Banksy Mural Goes Viral
The erasure of the mural outside London’s Court of Justice has become a metaphor for widespread government crackdowns on protesters around the world.
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A No Kings Movement for 19th-Century Art
Jean-François Millet was a hero to van Gogh for the way he drew attention to the nobility and heroism of the seldom howling underdog.
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Emily Kam Kngwarray’s Language of Country
The late Anmatyerr artist honored the nonhuman ecologies and ancestral narratives at the heart of Aboriginal life.
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Banksy Paints Mural of Judge Beating Protester After Mass Arrests in London
The artwork, which was quickly covered, surfaced days after police arrested almost 900 people at a demonstration in support of Palestinian activists.
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An Insider Artist’s Outsider Alter-Ego
A recurring lack of nuance plagues Grayson Perry’s exhibition at the Wallace Collection, which explores history, gender, class, and mental illness.
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The Shocking Allure of Erotic Abstraction
A show on Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Alice Adams gives a sense of how different, even alarming, these pieces would have been to viewers in the 1960s.
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Edward Burra’s Satirical Surrealism
The painter wanted to experience the shock of strangeness, to embrace the allure of the louche, the forbidden, the disapproved of.
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Is Jenny Saville the UK’s Greatest Living Painter?
Enormous in scale, Saville's uncomfortably close-cropped depictions of women’s faces and nude bodies abound in the joy of painterly modeling.