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Postmodernism & Its Discontents

Lenin is given a kitsch shell by artist Alex Milov, is this an act of vandalism or preservation?...

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Emilio Vedova, Icon of Radical Italian Art

The hero of radical Italian art in who painting is reinvigorated as the premier medium encompassing all others. ...

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(H) oli Ep (p) iphany

Oli Epp, sold out before the private view. Semiose is a gallery opened in 2005 in Paris....

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Photo London 2018 at Somerset House

Showcasing the best photography and cementing London as a key location in the international photographic community. ...

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Postmodernity, a Trinity of Crises

Trying to understand the postmodern is famously difficult but this series of articles is supposed to help!...

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Postmodernism: Anti-Art reflecting a knowing society

There is a constant push and pull over what makes an artwork art, this is one of the core issues at work in postmodernism....

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Art is on the house!

The myth of a disappearing house, the discovery of one that still exists and the challenge of one that will hopefully exist one day in the future....

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Why Being an Artist is not a Job

Working away in the studio is play with consequences not a job, thank goodness!...

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Curves versus Angles

Arne Jacobsen’s St Catherine’s College Oxford, Refectory dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcaphould we prefer soft voluptuous curves or hard aggressive angles? It all...

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Construct and (Various) Disasters of Democracy

Installation shot, Construct and (Various) Disasters of Democracy Galerie Dukan, Leipzig, Germany dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;D/dropcapuncan Wylie is a prodigious painter who,...

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Geoff Diego Litherland, Painter of Another Present

Explore human hopes and technological power while worrying away at the fragility of life on Earth, welcome to the worlds of Geoff Diego Litherland. ...

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Beat Zoderer’s Art Concret at Semiose, Paris

  dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;S/dropcapwiss concrete artist, Beat Zoderer shows his work ‘Dans quel Mesure,’ at Semiose, Paris. Being Swiss gives this younger...

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Phillip Allen Body & Mind

Treading the line between the desire to create recognisable forms with a more strictly modernist painting approach, Phillip Allen has a wonderfully impure painterly style. ...

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DaliParis, re-opens with Dali the Sculptor at its centre

  dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;T/dropcaphere are two good reasons for taking a fresh look at the work of Salvador Dalí. The first is that Matthew Collings, in his insightful...

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Newness & Nostalgia In Art

The Idea of newness is an essential part of the function of art in modern times but what does that mean and how does newness form and change? Are we all prone to long for a past that never was or a...

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What Dreams May Come?

We all dream and since nobody will listen to us explain them it may be the most neglected area of our lives!...

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Aspects of Modernism & William Morris

As part of the exploration of the forming of Modernism Natalie Andrews considers the influence of William Morris via an object in the V&A....

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The Feminine in the Feminist: Women take their Life-Making skills into Contemporary Art

Camille and Nikita Kravtsov, UFO Revolution, 2018, (detail), drawing, print and embroidery dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;A/dropcapt art schools in the sixties and seventies, American...

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Becoming of the Avant-Garde

Modernism and the avant-garde is the theme of the second part of Natalie Andrews exploration of the epoch and its influence on our time....

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Simon Bill, as Presented and in Aspect

Simon Bill is a polymath and deserves a long hard look from a curious audience his work probes perception itself. ...

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The Quietude of Some Black and Cream/White Pictures in Paris

Lee Bae, Landscape (detail) dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;M/dropcapinimal Art, it has been argued, is the dying breath of abstraction, and painting more generally (Winters, 2018)....

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Max Klinger & The Freudian Unconscious

Max Klinger is a thought provoking artist who was influential on early modernism his work not only helps to explain complex theories but also helped to form them!...

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Damien Meade, Duality, Beginnings & Endings

Damien Meade is an Irish born painter working in oils, he uses unfinished clay sculptures to give his work a sense of being dynamically in process....

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Anselm Kiefer, God, Death, and Seven Tons of Lead

This exhibition comprises mainly large-scale paintings that are flooded with molten lead....

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Understanding The Modern, it happened in the past!

The 19th century is where our ideas of the modern come from so what can that time say to us?...

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Do We Understand Modernism? We Better!

Modernism is in the news because as it turns out not that many people ever really got it! Since we have long since left this epoch behind and since its exerts such an influence maybe we should make...

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Study Proves People Congeal Over Time!

A study from NASA has shocked people by showing that life and education contribute to the death of creativity in children, creativity which is essential to our race, and is difficult to win back once...

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Cynical Realism & The New Chinese Middle Class

Cynical Chinese art makes liberal westerners feel good but what will we make of the new proud Chinese middle class?...

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China/Art/Soft Power: speak softly and carry a big stick!

China is developing its soft power portfolio; state propaganda, Confucius institutes, strategic investment and of course, art. ...

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‘Black Book’ Gideon Rubin at Freud Museum

Gideon Rubin's show 'Black Book' recalls the horror of the Nazi machine and helps us to reflect on that horror in the home of Sigmund Freud who managed to survive occupation. ...

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