Painting
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Dear Calder, dear Kelly: the friendship of two great artists a generation apart
By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated
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David Adjaye and Adam Pendleton: a meeting of minds in Hong Kong
Paintings by American artist Adam Pendleton are staged in conversation with sculptural works by Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye at Pace Hong Kong
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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At Blenheim Palace, Cecily Brown confronts the gore and glory of English heritage
In the first show by a British artist at Blenheim Palace, Cecily Brown takes a nostalgic, conflicting and grisly view of Britain’s past and future
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Peripatetic Georgian artist Andro Wekua on work, war and wandering
By Sophie Lovell Last updated
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Not Vital in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
Speaking to Hans Ulrich Obrist ahead of a solo show at Thaddaeus Ropac, London, artist Not Vital describes his youth in the bucolic Engadin Valley, his performative self-portraiture, and the freedom of not being an architect
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Underwater art exhibition on Porquerolles island is submerged in intrigue
On view until 17 October at Fondation Carmignac on Porquerolles, sub-aquatic group show ‘The Imaginary Sea’ (La Mer Imaginaire) frames the sea as a source of inspiration, imagination, longing and loss
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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A double bill of Bernard Frize hits all the right notes
It’s been over a decade since the artist last exhibited in France. Now, a duo of Paris exhibitions at Perrotin and Centre Pompidou are casting his four decades-long painting practice in a new light
By Emily McDermott Last updated
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Disruptive nonagenarian Julio Le Parc is still making waves
We caught up (virtually) with the trailblazing Argentine artist to discuss bureaucracy, defying categorisation and his latest wave of optokinetic art
By Benoit Loiseau Last updated
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San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora reopens with Billie Zangewa and Amoako Boafo
Reopening for the first time since the onset of Covid-19, San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora is staging epic exhibitions by Amoako Boafo and Billie Zangewa
By Pei-Ru Keh Published
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At home with artist Julie Mehretu
Here, Camille Okhio discusses myths and motherhood with American artist Julie Mehretu ahead of her major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art
By Camille Okhio Published
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Artists square up to racial injustice via Instagram
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Published
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Ahead of his Hong Kong show, Bosco Sodi meditates on painting as therapy
On view from 13 February, the Mexican artist’s solo exhibition at Axel Vervoordt is the culmination of a two-week residency in the city
By Catherine Shaw Published
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Alex Israel judges Wallpaper* Design Awards 2020
He runs a sunglasses brand, he’s released a feature-length teen romcom, and his paintings are held in collections at major museums around the world; Alex Israel is a multihyphenate who has blurred the boundaries between High Art and Pop product, commerce and concept
By Charlotte Jansen Published
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Bharti Kher escapes to Somerset in search of solitude
The New Delhi-based artist presents an exhibition of new installation, painting and sculpture work following her 2017 residency at Hauser & Wirth Somerset
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Published
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Jean-Michel Othoniel decodes the secret language of flowers in the Louvre’s collections
The artist has published a new book about the flowers within the storied Paris museum’s art collection, alongside an intervention of new paintings in its glass-roofed French sculpture hall
By TF Chan Published
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Guggenheim Bilbao offers new perspectives on Gerhard Richter’s seascapes
By Elly Parsons Published
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Sarah Morris cuts through the noise at White Cube
It’s a homecoming of sorts for the Kent-born, New York-based artist, who debuts new paintings and her first ever sculptural work at the gallery’s Bermondsey space
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Published
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Anj Smith: making sense of desire and anxiety through a painter’s forensic language
By Charlotte Jansen Published
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Birthday buzz and secret messages at Takashi Murakami retrospective
By Hadani Ditmars Published