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Robert Rauschenberg: Spreads 1975-83

This essay argues that Rauschenberg, as an American artist, repositions collage as a flat formal arrangement. However, the formal arrangement, whilst remaining flat, accommodates depictive content as...

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FR Awards Return to Truman Brewery

Three winners were hand-picked from the annual Free Range graduate shows to create new work that will go on display in their own solo exhibitions....

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Artists Challenge Violent Stereotypes of Syria

Syrian artists, including the only artist known to have worked secretly in an Islamic State controlled area, are the focus of a new London gallery....

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Revving Up For Christmas – Horton Gets Kinky

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; colour:#992211;”W/dropcape last saw Jim Heath playing London’s O2 Islington in the sad wake of Cramps drummer, Nick Knox’s passing....

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‘Weapons’ Removed From Van Gogh Sculpture

Controversial items relating to the artist's life were scrapped from original design over fears they could be linked to drug, knife and gun crime....

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Restoration of Rare Medieval Altarpiece Reveals Vandalism

The Battel Hall retable, which survived the fury of 16th-century iconoclasts, bears later scars of graffiti and 'witch marks' against evil spirits. ...

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Skill and Competence as a Requirement

Skill is deployed in many fields of human endeavour Football takes skill. I played football at the same time as did Rodney Marsh, Denis Law and Colin Bell. They were footballers; but I was not. Why...

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#MeToo Makes Number Three in ArtReview Power 100

The #MeToo movement has sparked a rush of exhibitions in galleries and museums, many focusing solely on female artists in the past year. ...

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Degas: Passion For Perfection

Degas: Passion For Perfection uses the film medium to good effect, allowing the viewer to see the artist's process in action. ...

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‘Site Unseen’ Explores Making and Seeing

  ‘Darren Coffield’s ‘Orgreave’ dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;‘S/dropcapite Unseen’ is a group show inaugurating the new exhibition premises of...

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US Art Dealers Mobilising in Support of Democrats

An initiative by Swing Left is part of an effort to mobilise the left-leaning energies of the art world to get out the vote for Democrats. ...

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Sculpture and expression

Sarah Sitkin: Bodies in decline, bodies at rest...

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Marie von Papen Makes UK Debut

MVP: London is the latest in a series of innovative pop-ups, including a former wharf in Copenhagen and an abandoned shipping warehouse in New York....

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Face-to-Face: Mary Kelly and Conceptualism

Mary Kelly, Face-to-Face, solo exhibition, installation view, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2018)  dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;M/dropcapary Kelly’s Face-to-Face exhibition...

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Swedish Museums Call For Nazi Loot Assistance

Museums are calling on the government to create an independent panel to issue recommendations on claims for art that was lost due to persecution by the Nazis. ...

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Depiction in the work of a Photo-Collagist

Conceptualist and Romantic Photo-Collagist Provides insight into Depiction: John Stezaker at the Approach...

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Exhibition On Screen Returns For Sixth Season

The pioneering series of cinematic films about exhibitions, galleries and artists returns with ​Degas: Passion for Perfection​ from 6 November 2018....

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Uncommon Bodies in Figurative Art

Martha Parsey: Symbolic feminism and the revolt...

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A Romance of Many Dimensions at sid motion

Matthew Barnes, Hannah Hughes, and Abigail Hunt @ sid motion gallery...

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Mud and the Body By-Product

Damien Meade: making the artificial appear sentient...

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Censored Queer Art Show Reopens To Record-Breaking Crowds In Rio

The exhibition was revived thanks to one of the country’s biggest crowdfunding campaigns, which raised more than $250,000....

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Is the Classic Rock sound making a comeback?

Lancastrian Rockers Massive Wagons charge the charts with new release 'Full Nelson'...

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A Rich Body Of Data

The flows and forms of MutualArt...

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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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Science Fiction and New Dimensions in Art

Adam Dix: The subtle elevation of iconography and reality...

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The Poetry & Potency of Presence

Gail Olding: Emotional access in conceptual art...

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Vanessa Winship & Dorothea Lange at the Barbican Centre

Artefacts take mysterious meanings, and the monochromatic treatment of the rest of the exhibition breaks free into vibrant colours and ideas that may point to new departures in the photographer's...

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Contemporary Artists’ Drawings at The Drawing Room

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;W/dropcaphy do drawings matter? Commenting on his education as an artist at The Slade School of Fine Art in the seventies, restaurant critic, tv...

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A New Figurative Art

Presenting a large number of iconic works, this exhibition explores a crucial phase of Italian art history that remains little-known outside its native country. ...

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Marie-Louise von Motesiczky at the Freud Museum

Like the Freuds, Marie- Louise and her mother fled Austria immediately after the Anschluss in 1938. They arrived in England in 1940 where they spent the rest of their lives....

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