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Carnival and Colonialism Converge in Hew Locke’s The Procession

Avatar photo by Aditya Iyer November 7, 2022November 7, 2022

Locke’s stunning, sensuous spectacle of pattern and color, just like the grand tradition of Caribbean carnivals, hints at sinister elements that undergird the whole endeavor.

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Is It Possible to Enjoy Cornelia Parker’s Works Without Her Words?

by Michael Glover October 3, 2022October 4, 2022

Parker’s stories bring so many of her works alive, give them meaning, and make us warm to her and to them. Is that a problem?

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Tate’s Survey of Caribbean-British Art Centers Britain

Avatar photo by Aurella Yussuf March 30, 2022March 30, 2022

By the end of Life Between Islands, the island that is centered in this exhibition is Britain, and “the Caribbean” remains a loose, ill-defined, hazy backdrop

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A Hogarth Survey Has Good Intentions but Misses the Mark

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan March 17, 2022March 17, 2022

Why assemble the most significant grouping of Hogarths from far and wide without indicating why calling out the faults in historical artworks is important to our understanding of our world today?

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Tate Britain Will Commission Artist to “Critically Engage” With Racist Mural

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia February 21, 2022February 22, 2022

Critics have long called for the mural, which depicts bound Black enslaved people, to be removed from the museum’s former restaurant.

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The Great Painter of London’s Mayhem

by Michael Glover November 24, 2021November 24, 2021

Hogarth and his contemporaries agreed that human life was a stinking and dirty business once you had skimmed the froth off the top.

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Paula Rego’s Raging Women

by Michael Glover August 21, 2021August 20, 2021

Rego’s women are always independent spirits, and they are often raging.

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“Salmon” Pink and Other Relics of Pre-Industrial Agriculture

Avatar photo by Anna Souter May 17, 2021May 17, 2021

As the Turner Prize-nominated duo Cooking Sections forcefully reveals, it’s not just salmon that are changing color due to harmful agricultural techniques.

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The Silence of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

by Michael Glover January 2, 2021January 4, 2021

Looking at Yiadom-Boakye’s portraits is an act of slow discovery, the unveiling of a mystery.

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J.M.W. Turner, the Modern

by Michael Glover December 12, 2020December 11, 2020

A show at Tate Britain underscores Turner as the great recorder of elemental disorder and industrial pollution on the grand scale.

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Wrapped in Festive Neon, Tate Britain Marks Diwali

Avatar photo by Rohini Kejriwal November 17, 2020November 18, 2020

Unveiled just ahead of the holiday, Chila Kumari Singh Burman’s installation is sure to leave Londoners with a sense of warmth and light amid the gloomy winter months.

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Aubrey Beardsley’s Self-Conscious Depiction of Degeneration

Avatar photo by Ben Shields May 23, 2020May 23, 2020

Although Beardsley was foremost a decorative illustrator, he depicted the physically monstrous and assorted polymorphous perversities.

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