Amah-Rose Abrams
Amah-Rose Abrams is a British writer, editor and broadcaster covering arts and culture based in London. In her decade plus career she has covered and broken arts stories all over the world and has interviewed artists including Marina Abramovic, Nan Goldin, Ai Weiwei, Lubaina Himid and Herzog & de Meuron. She has also worked in content strategy and production.
Latest articles by Amah-Rose Abrams
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Curator Aindrea Emelife’s ‘Bold Black British’ takeover of Christie’s
At Christie’s London, ‘Bold Black British’ (1 – 21 October) is a meeting point of artists working across disciplines and generations. We speak to curator Aindrea Emelife about spotlighting the Black Britons shaping the creative landscape
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Taloi Havini’s first sonic work dunks the listener in an ocean of sound
At Ocean Space in Venice, Papua New Guinea-born artist Taloi Havini explores ecological conservation and the indigenous history of Oceania in her first sound work, coinciding with the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale
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Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement: radical reflections on surreal times
At Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2021 kicks off with group show ‘A Goodbye Letter, A Love Call, A Wake Up Song’, a full house of subversive moving image commissions
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Omission control: Tavares Strachan is reinstating the invisible heroes of history
Fusing creativity and science, conceptual artist Tavares Strachan is reinserting disappeared people of colour into the historical narrative. This article will feature in the October 2020 issue of Wallpaper* (W*258), on newsstands from 17 September
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Howardena Pindell on art as protest, politics, and the power of DNA ancestry
American artist Howardena Pindell reflects on an art career filled with socio-political bite and aesthetic mastery, ahead of ‘A New Language’, her newly opened show at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
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Fondazione In Between Art Film: a cinematic celebration of time-based media in Venice
Beatrice Bulgari’s new foundation, championing time-based media, takes over a disused hospital with a surreal group exhibition during the Venice Biennale 2022
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Renzo Piano’s GES-2 V-A-C House of Culture opens in Moscow
The V-A-C Foundation celebrates its new design by Renzo Piano – the GES-2 House of Culture in Moscow, set in a former power station
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Stanley Whitney’s Italian paintings reveal an art practice in transition
American abstract painter Stanley Whitney’s works from the 1990s to mid-2000s, made in Italy and now on display as a collateral event of the Venice Biennale 2022, show an evolution of form and colour
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Thomas J Price reimagines the role of public sculptures at Hauser & Wirth
As ‘Thoughts Unseen’, the artist’s first show with Hauser & Wirth, opened at the gallery’s Somerset outpost (until 3 January), we talked to Thomas J Price about his whirlwind year and expanding people's expectations of what a sculptural figure can be
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Sondra Perry’s audiovisual landscape of dreams in Basel
For the inaugural Rolls-Royce Dream Commission, Sondra Perry stages Lineage for a Phantom Zone, an immersive multimedia installation at Fondation Beyeler, Basel
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Jenny Holzer curates Louise Bourgeois: ‘She was infinite’
The inimitable work of Louise Bourgeois is seen through the eyes of Jenny Holzer in this potent meeting of minds at Kunstmuseum Basel
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