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Alienated Ambiguity

Hedley Roberts: Unknown faces, arch pleasures. An interview on the harsh light of creative vision...

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Tearing the mouth of language

Nieto: Linguistic chaos. An interview with the most perverse artist in history, maybe....

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Fags, Birds and a Couple of Guns

A Nancy Fouts retrospective will feature work spanning several decades, including some of her best loved sculptures and framed works alongside some unseen pieces....

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Picasso’s Ceramics Make London Commercial Debut

Reflective of Picasso's unmistakable style, the ceramics provide a unique key into one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists....

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New African Art Gallery Opens With Oluwole Omofemi Show

Signature African Art, originally established in Lagos in 1992, will use its new London space to introduce a new generation of African artists to UK and European audiences....

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The Contemporary Human Condition

JD Malat Gallery's group show attempts to underline the importance of international dialogue, focussing in particular on the artistic response to changing global conditions and political events....

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Report: London Art Fair 2020

Past highlights include selected works from the infamous Sensation exhibition that launched the careers of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, and paintings by Turner prizewinner Chris Ofili....

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Frank Carter’s 900 Days of Chaos

Alluding to his training as a tattoo artist, Carter’s paintings present a cacophony of visual motifs produced in fluorescent and neon colours....

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Opening of Oslo’s New Munch Museum Delayed

Tracey Emin says she is now “working out the logistics” for the inaugural exhibition which pairs her work with that of Munch. ...

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Portraits in the marketplace

Strident Sitters: Portraits in the Marketplace. Who's buying...

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Hunter Potter Debut UK Solo Exhibition

I Ain’t Half The Man I Wanted To Be revolves around the artist's personal meditation on the expectations of masculinity....

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Tom French Major Retrospective & Memorial

Transcend brings together two sets of work that are monochromatic, figurative combinations of photorealism and abstraction that depict a psychological landscape as well as material space. ...

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CalArts Recruits Alumni to Create Works Financing Scholarships

50+50: A Creative Century From Chouinard to CalArts will unfold as CalArts marks next year’s 50th anniversary of the college’s founding....

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Symbolic Awards

An obscure review of the 2019 BP Portrait Awards...

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Photographic Reality

Justin Hession: Caught on film. An interview with a deep event photographer on the nature of representation....

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Teiji Hayama London Solo Debut

FAME introduces a new body of oil paintings that examine what it means to be famous in the age of digital celebrity....

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Major Solo Exhibition for Basil Beattie RA

One of the most significant and singular abstract artists to emerge in post-war Britain, Beattie brought the grandeur and scale of the New York School to London....

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New Show Examines the Concept of Them

Curated by James Birch, this exhibition examines the aesthetics behind the concept of Them, a long forgotten but important, largely gay, clique. ...

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Spiralling Intentionally Towards Figuration

David Treloar: Gestural Portraits and Simple Joy. An interview about focus and intention....

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Heaven’s Above in Celestial Promise

Correcting nihilism through perspective, the painting of Mark Batty....

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Mixed Media: The Christmas Song of Emily Maitlis & Fiona Banner

Fresh from hauling Prince Andrew over the coals newsreader Emily Maitlis and art Fiona Banner have made a Christmas song....

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Stanley Spencer’s Love Affair With the Thames Revealed in New Show

Painting by the Thames: Swan Upping at Cookham brings together rarely seen paintings and drawings to reveal one of Spencer’s inspirations: the River Thames....

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The Finer Details of History

Massimiliano Pironti: Hyperreality. An Interview with 2019 BP Award Finalist. ...

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Phil Moffa to Launch Butcha Sound Records

One of the albums, Pieces for Painting, is a noise-based head trip that was designed for artists to listen to while working in their studios....

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Jake Wood-Evans New Solo Exhibition

Recalling Baroque masterpieces, Wood-Evans' paintings fuse the great Romantic tradition of painting with the modernist sensibility of abstract artists such as Rothko and Motherwell....

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New Foundation Dedicated to French-Chinese Master Chu Teh-Chun Opens in Geneva

CHU Teh-Chun, who died in 2014 aged 93, was celebrated for integrating traditional Chinese painting techniques with Western abstract art....

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Conveying Connection: Charlie Schaffer

Charlie schaffer: The Emotion of Experience. Interview with BP Portrait Award 2019 Winner...

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Hang-Up Open New Gallery

Moving from its original Dalston space to the new Hoxton location, the building has been completely stripped back, dug out and remodelled over an eight-month period. ...

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Dreamstates and Mystery

Markus Åkesson: Finding what is hidden. New Realism and Painting...

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Andrew Renton on Roy Oxlade

Andrew Renton discusses the work of Roy Oxlade at the Alison Jacques Gallery London. ...

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