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Tracey Emin: A Second Life at Tate Modern
The last few years have been nothing short of an emotional and physical rollercoaster for the now Dame…
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Seurat and the Sea at the Courtauld Gallery
Few careers of the modern European art canon can be said to have burned so brightly and yet…
By James White
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Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting at the National Portrait Gallery
In the years since Lucian Freud’s death in 2011, there have been a number of major shows devoted…
By James White
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Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals at Tate Britain
JMW Turner (1775-1851) and John Constable (1776-1837) have long been treated as the Ali versus Frazier of British…
By James White
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David Hockney: Some Very, Very, Very New Paintings Not Yet Shown in Paris at Annely Juda Fine Art
It’s been quite a year for one of the world’s greatest living painters, the 88-year-old son of Bradford,…
By James White
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Outside Is America by Lee Quiñones at Woodbury House
New York in the mid-1970s was a city in dire straits, beset by economic hardship and urban decay.…
By James White
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Wright of Derby: From the Shadows at the National Gallery
Deep in the heart of the East Midlands, as the dark satanic mills of Britain’s Industrial Revolution rumbled…
By James White
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Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life at the Courtauld Gallery
Still life as a genre has stirred the creative juices of some remarkable wielders of a brush over…
By James White
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Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World at the National Portrait Gallery
Back in 1968, under the stewardship of young director Sir Roy Strong (then just plain "Roy"), the National…
By James White
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Nigerian Modernism: Art and Independence at Tate Modern
For many, any mention of "modernism" in art channels thoughts of the leading lights of the Western canon:…
By James White