I went to see Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms at the Tate, plus an overview of her life and work
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Turkish Art Week @ The Saatchi Gallery, London
In late October 2021 Turkish Art Week’s inaugural exhibition was held over a period of five days at the Saatchi Gallery in London’s fancy Chelsea. The show was organized by online art gallery and arts consultancy Renko London, which was founded by the (rather glamorous) London-based Turkish artist Renk Erbil: “now it’s Turkish art’s time …
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Review no 147: Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama
A look at the work of Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama
Review no 104: Viennese artists Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) and Egon Schiele (1890-1918)
The contrasting work of artists Klimt and Schiele
Review no 99: Ai WeiWei (China) at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
A look at the work of contemporary Chinese conceptual artist Ai WeiWei
Review no 90: Harald Sohlberg: Norwegian artist
Harald Sohlberg: a Norwegian painter of magical landscapes
Review no 75: Artist Mona Hatoum (Palestine)
“No one has put the Palestinian experience in visual term so austerely and yet so playfully, so compellingly and at the same time so allusively” – Edward Said In 2016 I was introduced to the work of Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum, when I attended an exhibition of her work at Tate Modern in London. Hatoum …
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Review no 56: Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) @ Royal Academy of Arts, London
My review of the moody art of Léon Spilliaert
Review no 45: Dora Maar (1907-97), artist (France)
@ Tate Modern, London, until 15 March 2020 EUROPE Dora Maar (born Henrietta Markovitch) is perhaps best known as “Picasso’s girlfriend”. However, what has been too often overlooked is that she also created a large and impressive body of work on her own terms. From a bourgeois background, Maar attended progressive Parisian art schools and, …
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Review no 37: Rembrandt and Light, art exhibition (Netherlands)
Up close and personal with Rembrandt’s luminous paintwork