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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at Tate Britain, London
In my mind, a portrait is the depiction of an actual person, someone who has lived. Their portrait was made so their story could be told...
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Beyond the Canvas
Jul 22, 20221 min read
Remembering David Wojnarowicz, artist and activist (1954–1992)
"One of the strongest feelings I have about death is that it's a time when the energy we carry is dispersed and becomes a part of...
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Jul 15, 20222 min read
Domenichino's Sibilla Cumana at Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna
Being inside an empty museum at night might well be the ultimate art lover's fantasy. Apart from not having to share the space with herds...
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Jun 12, 20221 min read
Gates of Turan, Firouz FarmanFarmaian at the Venice Biennale
Sometimes the Venice Biennale takes you places you'd never dream of going to. A decision to escape the mad crowds of San Marco and take...
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Jan 15, 20212 min read
A legal killing spree
"When you see a gruesome picture over and over again, it really doesn’t have any effect." — Andy Warhol Warhol was an avid collector of...
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Nov 1, 20202 min read
Kim Abeles' Smog Collectors
"The Smog Collectors materialize the reality of the air we breathe. I place cut, stencilled images on transparent or opaque plates or...
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Oct 20, 20202 min read
Fourteen days to the US Presidential election.
“We are at a precipice in this country, and we are either going to move forward or we are not.” - Carrie Mae Weems In 2016, nearly half...
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Oct 9, 20201 min read
Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk -Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Iconic, but not frozen in time - a garment that continues to evolve and fascinate. That is the premise of this show that traces the...
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Oct 4, 20202 min read
The liberation of Artemisia Gentileschi - National Gallery, London
The overwhelming dominance of Artemisia Gentileschi's personal narrative over her worth as an artist has always bothered me. The rape,...
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Sep 20, 20201 min read
Americans in Venice
Venice is, among many other wonderful things, synonymous with glass. The work of the Murano glassblowers has inspired countless artists...
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Sep 13, 20202 min read
Niccolò dell'Arca's Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1463) - Santa Maria della Vita, Bologna
"This Christ will never be forgotten. Was it made from earth? Was it rotting flesh? I didn’t know what the medium was […] The three Marys...
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Sep 3, 20201 min read
Héctor Zamora's Lattice Detour, The Met rooftop
"The wall is a monument to openness over enclosure, lightness over heaviness, transience over permanence — it’s also fraught with...
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Sep 2, 20201 min read
Martha Rosler's iconic photomontages
" I want to open a space in people’s minds where they see that they can be active, intellectually and personally, rather than passive...
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Aug 29, 20202 min read
Lorna Simpson's fantastical hairscapes
"Black women’s heads of hair are galaxies unto themselves, solar systems, moonscapes, volcanic interiors. The hair she paints has a mind...
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Aug 27, 20202 min read
Titus Kaphar's Shifting the Gaze, 2017
Painting is a visual language where everything in the painting is meaningful, is important, is coded. But sometimes, because of the...
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Aug 24, 20201 min read
Amy Sherald's portrait of Breonna Taylor
It's been 176 days since Breonna Taylor was killed. Breonna was 26-year-old, she worked as an emergency room technician and was on the...
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Aug 23, 20202 min read
Carrie Mae Weems' The Kitchen Table Series (1990)
"I think that most work that’s made by black artists is considered to be about blackness. [Laughs.] Unlike work that’s made by white...
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Aug 1, 20202 min read
A heathen's pilgrimage to the National Gallery
Today I'm celebrating my first trip into central London after 5 months of mostly staying at home. The Titian: Love, Desire, Death...
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Jul 27, 20202 min read
Dwelling: In This Space We Breathe, Khadija Saye (1992-2017)
‘The series was created from a personal need for spiritual grounding after experiencing trauma. The search for what gives meaning to our...
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Jul 24, 20202 min read
Gordon Parks' chronicles of everyday segregation
"I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had...
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