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The Flowers of Yves Saint Laurent - Musée YSL Paris
Small museums make me happy. Especially those in large cities. As a case in point, the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris is a delightful gem...
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Sep 191 min read
On the Exonerated Five
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." - Maya Angelou Just finished watching this amazing documentary made...
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Aug 151 min read
“The Shape of Things” at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
"The Shape of Things" at Pallant House explores a genre that has the ability to unlock the hidden beauty and expressive force of everyday...
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May 181 min read
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia
I'm one day late due to work commitments, but I very much wanted to mark this occasion by showcasing a painting by Martin Wong...
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Jun 5, 20222 min read
Anselm Kiefer at Palazzo Ducale, Venice
Go early, go alone. This could be my motto for many things, but it becomes particularly fitting when I'm on my arty trips. And, for the...
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May 17, 20221 min read
Ukrainian artists: Zhanna Kadyrova at the Venice Biennale
“During the first two weeks of the war, I had the impression that art was only a dream, that I had only dreamed these twenty years of my...
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Jul 9, 20202 min read
Sojourner Truth, the only Black woman invited to The Dinner Party
Rivers of ink, including a tiny bit of mine, have been written about Judy Chicago's seminal installation The Dinner Party. But it only...
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May 13, 20201 min read
The Unforgettables: Bronzino's Portrait of a Young Man - The Met, New York
Just like we love real people, I hereby decree that it is entirely acceptable to have feelings for the subject of a painting. For I have...
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May 8, 20202 min read
Flashback no. 9: teamLab at Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris (26 May 2018)
teamLab hail from Japan, they are an interdisciplinary collective of artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and...
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May 2, 20202 min read
Flashback no. 8: Aleksey Sundukov at Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg (19 September 2018)
The museums I have visited in Russia (Moscow and Saint Petersburg this far) have made a lasting impression on me. If we exclude the...
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Apr 25, 20202 min read
Flashback no. 7: The Giacometti Gallery at Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk (29 Jun 2016)
Even on a very dark day, there was something strangely uplifting in the light that pervaded these rooms of the Louisiana Museum of Modern...
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Apr 19, 20202 min read
Flashback no. 5: Joan Semmel at Jewish Museum, New York (26 August 2017)
We have all been there, we've all experienced that feeling when we step into a room and we feel a work of art is 'calling' us. And I, for...
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Apr 13, 20202 min read
Flashback no. 3: Robert Longo at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (19 October 2016)
Discovery no. 1: Gorky Park is a name I used to associate with a spy movie from the 80s. Now I know where it is, it took me well over an...
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Apr 11, 20201 min read
Flashback no. 2: Jaume Plensa, 56th Venice Biennale (11 October 2015)
With permanent installations across the globe, Barcelona-born Jaume Plensa is the one of the doyens of large scale artistic projects in...
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Apr 8, 20201 min read
Flashback no. 1: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (5 March 2017)
There are many reasons to visit the Getty Centre, which is nestled in the hills overlooking West Los Angeles. The first is probably its...
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Apr 5, 20201 min read
Spring in art part 8: the day van Gogh comes to Fulham
Today is the most awaited day of my year. The hopeful and feverish monitoring of the evolution of the buds on my beloved pear tree...
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Apr 2, 20201 min read
Spring in art part 7: Steichen does a van Gogh
Luxembourg-born Edward Steichen is one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. He was one of the founders of the...
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Mar 29, 20202 min read
Spring in art part 5: van Gogh's Japanese connection
There is something particularly poignant about this painting. Maybe because van Gogh created this resplendent vision of spring mere...
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Mar 26, 20201 min read
Spring in art part 3: Monet's wonderful floral obsession
No celebration of the beauty of nature in Spring can be complete without dedicating one post to Claude Monet. Luckily for us, the...
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Mar 25, 20201 min read
Spring in art part 2: One lilac does make the spring.
Expect to see plenty of Russian art on here for it is one major passion of mine. Places like the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow are where...
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