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Flash Nails and Glamour: SYRETT

The challenge of SYRETT is that it feels punkish and out of step with what we’re used to seeing within contemporary art. Good....

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Shooting Down Babylon by Tracey Rose

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town will host a large-scale exhibition of revolutionary artist Tracey Rose...

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MACRO Radically Rethinks the Role of the Museum

The Museum for Preventive Imagination project at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome explores dynamic and evolving exhibition formats...

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The Socialism of the Lonely

Jonathan Jones’ biography shows that Tracey Emin remains one of the most important, engaging and unique voices in today’s contemporary art world. ...

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Feel Flows: Richard Stone & Lorena García Mateu

A review of joint contemporary art exhibition, A Splendour Amongst Shadows, at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London Bridge. ...

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Blaxploitation and Black Beauty: Mickalene Thomas – beautés du mois

This essay looks at the conception of black beauty in the 70s in terms of contemporary art. Mickalene Thomas' work draws upon popular culture and makes beautiful paintings from it....

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The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy

Andrew Edmunds deals in antique political prints. In this show at the Royal Academy, the works he shows stand up well to contemporary art and its political ambitions. ...

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South London Gallery Fire Station Coming Soon

The South London Gallery will open the former Peckham Road Fire Station as a new contemporary arts space and annexe to the main site on 22 September....

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Chelsea Manning In First UK Appearance

Chelsea Manning to be honoured at this year’s annual Friends of the Institute of Contemporary Arts dinner, marking her first public appearance in the uk....

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Losing Religion For Photography

Artist and musician Michael Stipe will join writer and critic Miranda Sawyer in conversation at the Institute of Contemporary Arts for the launch of Stipe’s photography book, Volume 1....

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Bloomberg New Contemporaries

When the idea is to introduce new voices in contemporary art, it helps not to have the judging panel overshadow the artists...

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Are humans impossible? Pierre Huyghe

A preview of Pierre Huyghe's 2025 In Imaginal exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York...

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Medieval Relics Display at the Green & Stone Gallery

The Green & Stone Gallery presents an impressive display of Medieval-inspired pieces....

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Can you really paint a metaphor? Anselm Kiefer’s early works may have the answer

The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, presents a landmark exhibition of German artist Anselm Kiefer....

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There’s Pigment and there’s PIGMENT TOKYO

An interview with Tokyo’s iconic colour purveyor....

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Marian Goodman Gallery Spreads Wings in New York

Marian Goodman Gallery opens its new headquarters in Tribeca, New York, on 26 October 2024 with Your Patience Is Appreciated: An Inaugural Show....

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A Night in Provence — Une Chambre à Soi Group Exhibition at Château la Coste

A new group exhibition that tells the story a nocturnal experience through a rhythm of works exploring dreams, nightmares, insomnia and more....

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Bringing Water to the Well — Frieze Announce 2024 Funds

A series of initiatives and acquisition funds that continue to bolster the UK arts ecosystem, emphasising Frieze's role in championing and nurturing the wider cultural landscape...

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Magnus Renfrew: Curating Tokyo Gendai

An interview with art doyen Magnus Renfrew...

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Bringing Radical Impermanence to the Institution: Megan Rooney at Kettle’s Yard

A three-week residency in Cambridge sees Megan Rooney bring all new large-scale works on canvas, a series of dance performances and a site-specific mural painted directly onto the walls of Kettle’s...

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Exhibition City: London Gallery Weekend

London Gallery Weekend presents another celebration of culture and creativity in the UK's capital city....

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Constructing Light

Karolina Halatek: Liminal spaces for visiting the sublime...

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Moonlight Flitting Dreams: Veronica Smirnoff

A preview of Blue Sky Red by Veronica Smirnoff at Candida Stevens Gallery, 2024. ...

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Uncarved Block, Unbleached Silk: Meeting Point Project

Studies in the intersection of East Asian spiritual and aesthetic traditions...

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Souvenirs Sans Frontières

An exhibition about home, belonging and displacement across time and space...

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Andres Serrano: Beyond The Pale

Andres Serrano interviewed by Robert Horvitz...

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Inversions of Nature: Giuseppe Penone

The Results and Interpolations of Giuseppe Penone...

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Digital Renaissance

Digital art reflecting traditional visions...

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Enchanted Visions

A review of Joe Sorren - Between the Wrinkles at Dorothy Circus Gallery, London ...

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The Concrete Ethereal: Keiko Kimoto

A review of Keiko Kimoto at Impulse Gallery, Lucerne, 2024...

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