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Jennifer Packer’s Lucid Tributes to Black Life

by Naomi Polonsky May 19, 2021May 19, 2021

In Packer’s canvases, swathes of abstraction express aspects of human experience that lie beyond representation.

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One London Art Center Has Ideas For Navigating the Digital Shift (Some More Useful Than Others)

by Rea McNamara December 8, 2020November 1, 2021

Serpentine Galleries’ “Future Art Ecosystems” emerges as an odd but occasionally insightful case study of the impact of the broader institutional shift to the digital realm.

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Cao Fei’s Science Fiction Fever Dreams

by Sanjana Varghese August 27, 2020November 5, 2020

In Blueprints, Cao works primarily as an anthropologist of sorts, creating a space where the past and the future are not so easily demarcated.

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The K-Pop Boyband BTS Launched an International Art Project

by Naomi Polonsky January 21, 2020

BTS, described as the “biggest boy band in the world,” announced an international public art project with 22 contemporary artists across five cities. Its first exhibitions opened at London’s Serpentine Galleries and Berlin’s Gropius Bau.

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When Artists Are Tamed by the Institutions that Exhibit Them

by Rosey Selig-Addiss October 19, 2018

What is at stake in using Joseph Beuys’s theory of “social sculpture” to recast the mission of the curator and the arts institution to take on the role of the artist?

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Encountering Christo’s Massive Sculpture on the Serpentine Lake

by Olivia McEwan July 9, 2018

Christo’s giant floating sculpture, “The London Mastaba,” sits on the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park as tourists on paddle boats circle around.

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The Woman Who Found Abstraction Before the Modernists

by Olivia McEwan May 10, 2016May 11, 2016

LONDON — The first thought that struck me about the Serpentine Gallery’s exhibition of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, Painting the Unseen, was: Thank goodness — finally a solo show starring a female artist!

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Leon Golub’s Never-ending Fight Against the War Machine

by John Ros April 8, 2015April 11, 2015

LONDON — The conversation of war has dwindled.

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